Such an important part of my work is helping women to feel better and live a healthy life. We know there are so many symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause and lots of women end up taking numerous medications trying to treat individual symptoms, when often the…

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Thank you to everyone who has already submitted #LALY24 nominations 😍. There are still over 2 weeks until the 22 April deadline, so lots of time to tell us about the legal aid lawyers & support staff who always go the extra mile. lapg.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

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24th April 2024

Join Us for another YPA Round Table Discussion: Navigating Age Assessments and Determinations In Criminal Proceedings.

Guest speakers, full details and sign up to be announced this week!

Down the road Royal Academy from the #Garrick club hangs this fine portrait of its founder, by the amazing Angelica Kauffman who was one of only two women to be admitted among the founders of the Academy, and excluded from the life drawing classes she & Mary Moser instigated!,

Such an oasis of beauty in the heart of London, #bluebells and #blossoms London Wildlife Trust Camley Street Natural Park

Spring WWT London Wetland Centre

📢 London shows to watch in April📢

Please share retweet, spread the word. Lets help get bums on seats.

Outside London list to follow

Calling all aspiring lawyers! We're hiring two paid Legal Interns, funded by The Portal Trust.

Don't miss this opportunity to develop research and drafting skills, and engage with law-making processes.

Apply via our website. Deadline 1 April 2024 →

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Honoured to be nominated for an Amnesty UK media award -- for work with Airwars investigating the British military's implausible claim that UK didn't kill a single civilian over nearly a decade fighting Islamic State in Iraq

amnesty-media-awards.org.uk/amnesty-media-…

Prisons cost £4.2 billion in 2022/23
Latest MoJ information release gives cost per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison buff.ly/3VxKYVC

Just an hour to go before the farewell edition of Law in Action goes out on BBC Radio 4 — although you'll still be able to listen to it on BBC Sounds and it has a repeat this Thursday evening. Thanks for all the kind remarks from followers today. Future updates on my blog:…

This week I was paid £77 on a legal aid case from 2017 - an important case for a survivor of child sexual abuse.

7 years delay in payment; thousands still outstanding; many hours wasted arguing with the LAA; & the sum is way below minimum wage for the work.

Legal aid is broken.

We need a better legal aid system to correct miscarriages of justice: there's a huge rise in unrepresented applications before the Court of Appeal Criminal Division & the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). Why does the latest consultation on #legalaid propose to do nothing?
laurakjanes.co.uk/blog/we-need-a…

Ooooh, we are at 93% of our crowdfunding target....can you help get us 100% of the way🙏? Donate from £10 to become a Friend of #LALY24 . All money goes to help sponsor our Legal Aid Newcomer award.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/friends-of-l…

🆕📊 Today United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum have published a new report focusing on how young adults with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) are identified and assessed in the criminal justice system and the level of support they receive.

Read it here ⏩ buff.ly/3lZyt5k

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