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Criminal legal aid report – key recommendations27 Jan 2022
Criminal legal aid work: options your firm should consider now07 Oct 2024
Introduction to pro bono12 Sep 2024
Legal aid for pro bono clinics28 Jan 2025
Litigants in person: guidelines for lawyers04 Jun 2015
Our family legal aid policy position01 Jul 2025
Part five: appendix and acknowledgements03 Nov 2025
Part four: information and resources03 Nov 2025
Part one: planning developing and maintaining a programme03 Nov 2025
Part three: precedents and pro formas03 Nov 2025
Part two: procedures and practice issues03 Nov 2025
Pro bono guide for in-house solicitors28 Jan 2025
Pro bono manual03 Nov 2025
Tendering for legal aid contracts10 Oct 2024

Are our courts fit for purpose?19 Dec 2022
Civil legal aid: a review of its sustainability and the challenges to its viability27 Sep 2021
Civil legal aid: sustainability research21 May 2024
Civil legal aid: the public service that can benefit us all23 Sep 2024
Fresh ideas for 21st century justice23 Jun 2025
From Caernarfon to Caerdydd: Reimagining Justice in Wales 203005 Sep 2024
Improving the legal aid means test as living costs rise22 Jul 2024
More affordable justice: legal aid means test report30 May 2022
Perfect storm for policing, law and order by 202714 Jun 2023
Reframing justice – our research02 May 2025
State of the courts – three years after our five-point plan25 Sep 2025
The results are in: how do solicitors feel about their profession? 06 Apr 2023
When lawyers are silenced: how restrictions on lawyers’ expression undermine rights, justice and democracy15 Jan 2026

Community care – legal aid deserts09 Jun 2025
Education – legal aid deserts21 Feb 2024
Housing – legal aid deserts21 Feb 2024
How to talk about access to justice and the rule of law02 May 2025
Immigration and asylum – legal aid deserts21 Feb 2024
Legal aid deserts09 Jun 2025
Mapping algorithms in the justice system03 Jun 2019
Pro Bono Charter25 Jul 2025
Pro Bono Recognition List16 Jan 2026
Responding to major incidents with free legal advice22 Sep 2025
Solicitors’ pro bono toolkit07 Jul 2021
Welfare benefits – legal aid deserts21 Feb 2024

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill19 Mar 2025
Civil legal aid07 Jul 2025
Civil legal aid review28 Jan 2025
Court closures29 Jan 2025
Court reform16 Jun 2025
Criminal courts backlog: independent Leveson review09 Dec 2025
Criminal legal aid01 Dec 2025
Early legal advice28 Jan 2025
Illegal Migration Act28 Jan 2025
LASPO Act 28 Jan 2025
Legal aid means test review01 Jul 2025
Open justice10 Jul 2025
Operation Early Dawn: what it means for solicitors19 Aug 2024
Professional court users' access scheme20 Aug 2024
Remote hearings24 Jul 2024
Small claims30 Jul 2025

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