Protected: Legal Aid Sustainability & Adapting to the New Normal

Monday 22nd February 2021
18:00 Conference Livestreamed Launch Event
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
08:00 Pilates with Lucy Merriman
09:00 Workshop Session 1 – Advice Needs in Wales: Strategic Litigation to Bring About Systemic Change with Public Law Project
09:00 Workshop Session 1 – The Westminster Commission on Legal Aid: Lessons Learned so Far – Criminal Defence, Family, Civil Legal Aid and the Publicly-Funded Bar
12:30 Plenary Discussion – Advice Needs in Wales: Access to Justice
13:00 Workshop Session 2 – Managing for the Future: Confidentially
13:00 Workshop Session 2 – Court of Protection: Practical Tips
16:30 Workshop Session 3 – Advice Needs in Wales: A Career in Legal Aid with Young Legal Aid Lawyers and Public Law Project
16:30 Workshop Session 3 – Ministry of Justice Engagement Event: The Means Test Review
16:30 Workshop Session 3 – Managing for the Future: The Role of the COFA
19:00 Caribbean Cook-Along and Cocktails with Shivi Ramoutar
Wednesday 24th February 2021
09:00 Workshop Session 4 – Civil/Public Law Costs Maximisation
09:00 Workshop Session 4 – Family Law Update
09:00 Workshop Session 4 – The Bar Council – Running on Empty: what is the future of the Civil Legal Aid Bar?
13:00 LAPG AGM
16:30 Workshop Session 5 – Latest Issues in Housing Law
16:30 Workshop Session 5 – VHCCs in Family & Care Matters
18:00 LAG book launch
Thursday 25th February 2021
10:30 The Westminster Commission on Legal Aid – Oral Evidence Session – Access to Justice
16:30 Workshop Session 6 – Crown Court Costs
16:30 Workshop Session 6 – Managing for the Future: Planning for the New Normal
16:30 Workshop Session 6 – Ministry of Justice Engagement Event – Civil Sustainability Review: Housing Sustainability
20:00 The Legal Aid Quiz of the Year
Friday 26th February 2021
09:00 Workshop Session 7 – Family & Care Costs Maximisation
09:00 Workshop Session 7 – Improving LAA decision-making
12:00 Pilates with Lucy Merriman
13:00 Workshop Session 8 – Working Remotely with Clients During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
13:00 Workshop Session 8 – Housing Costs Maximisation
16:30 Workshop Session 9 – Access to Immigration Advice in Prisons
16:30 Workshop Session 9 – How Technology Can Make Crime and Civil Law Pay
18:00 Closing Addresses- Alex Chalk MP and Jenny Beck
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09:00 Workshop Session 4 – The Bar Council – Running on Empty: what is the future of the Civil Legal Aid Bar?

Protected: Legal Aid Sustainability & Adapting to the New Normal 09:00 Workshop Session 4 – The Bar Council – Running on Empty: what is the future of the Civil Legal Aid Bar?

Kathy Wong, Policy Analyst: Legal Practice and Remuneration, Dr Rose  Holmes, Research Manager, The Bar Council and Sarah Hemingway, Garden Court Chambers

Download a copy of the Bar Council report which will be discussed in this session: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/running-on-empty-civil-legal-aid-full-report.html

 

In case you missed the session or you would like to re-watch it, find the zoom link here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/1Jgo-gaIrrt9W8Ve66HiVgbonXIAsykhX2U4wn01fpjfyE7smPvvl91itAUh9mLO.oOLBPKk-77iw1Vi5?startTime=1614157385000

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