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2025 UPDATES
28th March: LAPG Update 10 Of 2025: New courses for civil practitioners | Means Testing | News & Events
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21st March: LAPG Update 9 Of 2025: A smorgasbord of legal aid news, updates and events
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13th March: LAPG Update 8 Of 2025: Civil fee increase consultation – deadline approaching!
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5th March: LAPG Update 7 Of 2025: Civil fee increase consultation – please feed in via our survey!
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3rd March: LAPG Update 6 Of 2025: Latest on the Civil Fees Increase Consultation | News & Events
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25th February: LAPG Update 5 Of 2025: Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards Nominations are now open!!
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10th February: LAPG Update 4 Of 2025: A Plethora of Legal Aid News, Events, Consultations and Updates
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24th January: LAPG Update 3 Of 2025: Consultation Launched on Civil Fee Increases
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22nd January: LAPG Update 2 Of 2025: Latest Legal Aid News and Events
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10th January: LAPG Update 1 Of 2025: Welcome Back Legal Aid Champions
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2024 UPDATES
20th December: LAPG Update 37 Of 2024: All I Want For Christmas Is (Legal Aid) News...
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5th December: LAPG Update 36 Of 2024: Civil Fee Increase | New Style Civil Tender | Crime Contract Chan
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21st November: LAPG Update 35 Of 2024: Crime Lower and CLAAB | LAPG Research (We Need You!) & More
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4th November: LAPG Update 34 Of 2024: LAPG Conference & Dinner | New Civil Contract Tender and Much More
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25th October: LAPG Update 33 Of 2024: Crime Providers Demand Higher Fees | Updates | Tender | APPG event and more
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14th October: LAPG Update 32 Of 2024: Renew your membership and help us fight for legal aid!
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10th October: LAPG Update 31 Of 2024: Crime and Civil Tender Updates | Training Webinars, Events and More
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4th October: LAPG Update 30 Of 2024: LAPG Annual Dinner & Conference - 7 + 8 November 2024
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27th September: LAPG Update 29 Of 2024: Legal Aid fees JR | Crime contract tender | LAPG Dinner & More
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18th September: LAPG Update 28 Of 2024: Crime contract tender | APPG events | New LAPG resources & More
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28th August: LAPG Update 27 Of 2024: Civil Contract Verification Woes & Much More
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12th August: LAPG Update 25 Of 2024: It's conference time!
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9th August: LAPG Update 24 Of 2024: LAA Civil Contract docs | Apply for criminal legal aid & More
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7th August: LAPG Update 23 Of 2024: Safety Threat to Members
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31st July: LAPG Update 22 Of 2024: New I&A Spec | Crime Contract Consultation | Civil Verification & More
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19th July: LAPG Update 21 Of 2024: ODR Research| LAPG Conference | Crime & Civil News & More
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10th July: LAPG Update 20 Of 2024: LALY winners announced | Crime Contract Consultation & Much More
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20th June: LAPG Update 19 Of 2024: Are there votes in justice? | 2025 Crime Contract | AGM | LALYs & Much More
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31st May: LAPG Update 18 Of 2024: LAPG AGM | LALYs |Public Accounts Committee Report & Much More
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20th May: LAPG Update 17 Of 2024: LALY24 finalists announced!
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8th May: LAPG Update 15 Of 2024: LAA publishes plans for longer contracts and ditching tender round
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18th April: LAPG Update 14 Of 2024: LALY24 nomination deadline looms - submit by Monday by Monday 22 April 2024
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10th April: LAPG Update 13 Of 2024: Tender Verification Amended | Form And Guidance Changes | Loads More
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25th March: LAPG Update 12 Of 2024: Means Test Delays | New Civil Tender | Verification & More
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7h March: LAPG Update 11 Of 2024: RoCLA Delays | Prison Law Amendments | Gateway Evidence & More
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1st March: LAPG Update 10 Of 2024: Civil Tender | LALYs | Family Pilot | APPG Event | News & Events
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26th February: LAPG Update 9 Of 2024: Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards nominations are now open!!
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23rd February: LAPG Update 8 Of 2024: New Civil Tender Opp | Call for Evidence | APPG event | News & Events
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20th February: LAPG Update 7 Of 2024: RoCLA Call for Evidence - LAPG draft response
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16th February: LAPG Update 6 Of 2024: Two New Legal Aid Reports | RoCLA Deadline | News, Events, Training
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6th February: LAPG Update 5 Of 2024: Crime JR & Fees Consultation | Civil Tender on the Horizon & More
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30th January: LAPG Update 4 Of 2024: Bumper Crop of Legal Aid News & Events
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16th January: LAPG Update 3 Of 2024: Invitation - Member Briefing - RoCLA - Call for Evidence
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11th January: LAPG Update 2 Of 2024: Review of Civil Legal Aid - Call for Evidence
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5th January: LAPG Update 1 Of 2024: Happy New Year from LAPG | Legal Aid News & Events
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2023 UPDATES
19th December: LAPG Update 34 Of 2023: Your pre-Xmas flurry of legal aid news and events 🎄🎁
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11th December: LAPG Update 33 Of 2023: Summary of the 2023 LAPG Annual Conference
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4th December: LAPG Update 32 Of 2023: IMA work | TLS JR | Cyber attack & other news and events
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17th November: LAPG Update 31 Of 2023: Civil, Criminal, Sector & LAPG updates, news and events
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3rd November: LAPG Update 30 Of 2023: Changes to the 2018 Standard Civil Contract | Conference, RoCLA & Events
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27th October: LAPG Update 29 Of 2023: LAPG Conference | Concerns for the SW | Training, news and events
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13th October: LAPG Update 28 Of 2023: Civil Contract 2024 Tender - DEADLINE 17:00 TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2023
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6th October: LAPG Update 27 Of 2023: Civil Contract 2024 - Tender FAQs published | Public Law ITT Issue
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28th September: LAPG Update 26 Of 2023: Civil legal aid contract tender deadline
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26th September: LAPG Update 25 Of 2023: Tickets For The LAPG Conference Are Now Available! |Other News And Events
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13th September: LAPG Update 24 Of 2023: Tender launched today for the 2024 Standard Civil Contract
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8th September: LAPG Update 23 Of 2023: Civil Contract 2024 Tender next week | A plethora of news and events
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24th August: LAPG Update 22 Of 2023: Online Eligibility Calculator | Updated LAA Handbooks | More News & Events
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10th August: LAPG Update 21 Of 2023: Means Test Review - Phase 1 Changes - Guidance & Forms | News & Events
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8th August: LAPG Update 20 Of 2023: LAPG Training Update - Legal Aid | Management | Supervision
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20th July: LAPG Update 19 Of 2023: IMB and NAO Consultation Deadlines Loom | SGOs, Form Changes & More
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14th July: LAPG Update 18 Of 2023: LALY Winners and LAPG AGM
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5th July: LAPG Update 17 Of 2023: A fee increase? Yay, oh wait, boooo | News from across legal aid
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23rd June: LAPG Update 16 Of 2023: Notice of LAPG's AGM | Launch of APPG on A2J | NAO look at legal aid
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15th June: LAPG Update 15 Of 2023: Imm & Asylum Survey | Contracts, Means Test, Consultations & Much More
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8th June: LAPG Update 14 Of 2023: Consultations: Mediation | Contracts | SMPs | Open Justice | Means Test
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24th May: LAPG Update 13 Of 2023: Crime + Civil Contracts | DSCC + CCMS | Sector News + Events | LALY23
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19th May: LAPG Update 12 Of 2023: 📣 Finalists announced for the 2023 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards! 🍾 🎆
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5th May: LAPG Update 11 Of 2023: SGOs | 2024 Civil Contract | Survey and Consultations | SMPs v VMPs
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18th April: LAPG Update 10 Of 2023: Civil, Crime & Scheme-Wide News, Events and Updates
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30th March: LAPG Update 9 Of 2023: Tender deadline Tomorrow |Updates (FAM, MH, IMM) | Membership Deadline
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17th March: LAPG Update 8 Of 2023: Civil Tender Deadline Looms | LALYs | Membership |Training & More
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8th March: LAPG Update 7 Of 2023: Civil Contracts - Extension and Tender deadlines | Raft of Other Changes
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27th February: LAPG Update 6 Of 2023: LALY23 nominations are now open!
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24th February: LAPG Update 5 Of 2023: Tender deadlines| S.I.s | Justice Lab launched | News & Events
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12th February: LAPG Update 4 Of 2023: Members' Area of the LAPG Website
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10th February: LAPG Update 3 Of 2023: The MOJ launches the civil legal aid review, kinda| LAA Report | Tenders & More
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26th January: LAPG Update 2 Of 2023: Justice and Human Rights Committees step up | Crime & Civil news galore
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5th January: LAPG Update 1 Of 2023: HNY Legal Aid Heroes - 2022 Review and what's in store for 2023?
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2022 UPDATES