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"Transparency and accountability are key to improving public decision making, empowering people to engage with law, and increasing access to justice. So how can the Government foster those principles?"

Ah so proud of our work Jennifer Blair @Leary5Leary ☺️ - and of course colleagues at Migrants Organise Haringey Migrant Support Centre 🧡 Hackney Migrant Centre and American Red Cross The article is a thematic analysis of 83 case studies of front line professionals’ experience working with migrants w/ MH issues

How can people on #UniversalCredit navigate the shadowy system behind deductions? How do we know when the Gov't uses AI to make decisions? At this year’s The SLS conference, we spoke about tackling lack of transparency with the 'periscope' method: bit.ly/3t0qecL

How have we got to this place? Many of the most vulnerable people in our society cannot get #LegalAid—not because they aren't eligible—but because there aren't enough providers left. Thanks, Public Law Project 🧡, for holding government neglect to account. lght.ly/3h470n

Last week Public Law Project Daniel Rourke sent a pre-action letter to the Lord Chancellor arguing that he is in breach of his duty to secure legal aid for immigration and asylum cases - denying people access to justice. To understand why, here are two things you need to read:

Sometimes it's ok to use Google & even Twitter as touch points for legal research 😳😲! Tom Hickman drops a bombshell at #JRTrends23 breakout with PLP's Dr Jo Hynes, Chris @ Expert Link Expert Link, Tom Hickman Blackstone Chambers & Dr Jack Simson Caird Justice Committee

YLAL, The City of London Law Society, and @Barbrisqe are pleased to announce that applications for the Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund (SWSQF) are now open! clls.org/initiatives/sw…

Will remote advice solve the problem? Can you share your insight on how this is working? We need organisations, particularly in the South West, to give feedback on his plan. Please email any comments by Friday 10 November ⬇️ bit.ly/47qIxad

Congratulations BID and Privacy International - really powerful film on the impact of GPS tagging 👇

'After they've taken [the tag] away, I start to feel that I am a human and I have a free mind. I start to realise that life is more beautiful. It is worth living.' Our 2023 annual report on GPS tagging with BID Medical Justice UK Mia Leslie(& ft. art by Daniel Rourke)👇

6/ After this is 'Loitering with (research) intent: Remote ethnographies in the immigration tribunal' by Dr Jo Hynes: This paper explores the opportunities and the challenges of conducting court ethnographies without physical presence of ethnographers. doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

“This highly intrusive form of surveillance is being used to solve a problem that does not exist." Good to talk to MORGAN MEAKER & WIRED about GPS tagging in the immigration system & how it impacts people's mental health. Thank you to Mark Nelson for sharing his experiences ⬇️

"Without evidence of the scale of meaningful legal aid provider capacity & community legal need, there is a risk that ‘strategic ignorance’ is built into the system." PLP's Dr Jo Hynes for Legal Action Group on the lack of data about remote legal advice ✍️ lag.org.uk/article/215385…

Proud to be part of the Public Law Project team who intervened in Katy Watts 's and Liberty 's case. A really important finding in terms of holding that statutory instruments cannot be used to so grossly alter the meaning of UK protest laws

Jo Hynes (Dr Jo Hynes University of Exeter) was highly commended for her paper 'Loitering with (research) intent: Remote ethnographies in the immigration tribunal' which is a 'novel and engaging reflection on a remote courtroom ethnography'. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

🎉CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing Ollie Persey, winner of Legal Aid Newcomer!!!👏👏👏 Ollie has a thriving #communitycare and #educationlaw practice and often represents marginalised clients - he is also a tireless writer & speaker. We're so proud of you!! #LegalAidHero #LALY24

🚀CALLING LEGAL- CHARITY- ADVICE -SOCIAL -COMMUNITY WORKERS & more There’s a new Government in place and it’s time to organise! We’ve joined forces with Young Legal Aid Lawyers to organise for better access to justice- now we want you to join us, here's how🧵1/ 👉actionnetwork.org/forms/take-you…

What’s the real #CostofInjustice? 🚨 New research shows the Government has been wasting nearly £400k a year assessing immigration legal aid applications that fall under Exceptional Case Funding, even though almost 90% of those applications are approved publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/new-…

Is remote advice the future of immigration legal aid, or could relying on phones do more harm than good? The Ministry of Justice urgently needs to conduct more research & establish best practice guidelines, argues a new report ✍️ publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/remo…