Centre for Women’s Justice is looking for a Solicitor (Criminal Appeals Supervisor) (women-only*)
Centre for Women’s Justice is seeking a feminist criminal lawyer with experience in criminal appeals and CCRC reviews. This is a new position within CWJ, and will involve working with our CEO, Harriet Wistrich, on potential miscarriages of justice relating to women who have offended in response to male violence. Cases will range from convictions… continue reading
Osbornes Law is looking for a Housing Solicitor
Osbornes Law is recruiting for a full-time solicitor with experience in housing law to join their expanding and award-winning Housing and Social Care team. Experience in community care and public law would also be desirable, but not essential. The role will provide an exciting opportunity for the successful solicitor to handle a diverse caseload. Osbornes… continue reading
Coram is looking for a Solicitor / Senior Solicitor (Education Law)
Coram is recruiting up to two solicitors/ senior solicitors specialising in education law to work within their Education Law team. They are looking for committed, passionate and experienced education solicitors who are able to provide high quality and empathetic legal advice, assistance and representation to families and young people. The successful candidate will be able… continue reading
Shelter is looking for an Outreach Solicitor or Paralegal
Shelter is recruiting an Outreach Solicitor or Paralegal. Based with their partner organisation, Doncaster Housing for Young People, you will ensure you deliver high quality legal services through casework, the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Scheme and ensuring Legal Aid contract requirements and performance targets are met. Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe… continue reading
Shelter is looking for a Managing Solicitor (Sheffield)
Shelter is recruiting a Housing managing solicitor. You will ensure you and your team will deliver high quality legal services and manage their Legal Aid Contract, with your main focus being on your own caseload and to manage and supervise the legal teams who are advocating for clients with housing issues, as well as bringing… continue reading
Dowse & Co are looking for a paralegal
Dowse & Co are recruiting an enthusiastic paralegal to support their team. They are committed to access to justice and providing first-class legal representation and advice, irrespective of means and circumstances. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build their legal career, with opportunities for training and career progression available. The Candidate: Dowse… continue reading
North West London Law Centres are looking for a Housing Solicitor
North West London Law Centres are recruiting a Housing solicitor. The key tasks will be: to provide specialist casework and representation in housing law; to ensure compliance with Legal Aid Agency contract and funding requirements; to be familiar with SRA requirements; to attend the housing duty rota; and to provide outreach advice. North West London… continue reading
Shelter is looking for a Managing Solicitor (Birmingham and Bristol)
Shelter is recruiting a Managing Solicitor. The Managing Solicitor plays a crucial high-quality assurance role in their Legal Services based in Shelter Hubs locations with Legal Aid Agency contracts. The prime objective is to manage and supervise specialist legal team(s) focused on advising and advocating for people experiencing the housing emergency and to tackle housing… continue reading
Shelter is looking for a Paralegal (Birmingham)
Shelter is recruiting an enthusiastic individual with legal experience to join as a Paralegal/ Legal Adviser and help them deliver an effective service for people experiencing housing issues in Birmingham. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in standing up to the housing emergency. You will support their solicitors to maintain an… continue reading
Mary Ward Legal Centre is looking for a Head of Housing
Mary Ward Legal Centre is recruiting an experienced Housing Solicitor to lead their friendly and committed team and to contribute to life-changing outcomes for their clients. You will have a minimum of three years’ experience of casework and representation in housing law, with experience of working under a Legal Aid Contract and meet the LAA Supervisor… continue reading
LAPG Response to the Consultation on Creating an ‘Interest on Lawyers’ Client Account’ Scheme
We have published our response to the government’s ILCA consultation, setting out our significant concerns with both the proposed scheme and the consultation process itself. It is our belief that the scheme as proposed is unfit for purpose, lacking both a clear mandate for its implementation, and robust evidence to support it. The consultation fails… continue reading
Shelter is looking for a Housing Solicitor (Rochdale)
Shelter is recruiting a Housing Solicitor in their mission to drive systemic change and fight for Justice. Based in with one of their partner organisations in Rochdale, you will ensure you deliver high-quality legal services through casework and ensuring Legal Aid contract requirements and performance targets are met. You will be able to identify test… continue reading
Shelter is looking for a Housing Solicitor (Doncaster)
Shelter is recruiting a Housing solicitor in their mission to drive systemic change and fight for Justice. Based in with their partner organisation, Housing for Young People in Doncaster, you will ensure you deliver high quality legal services through casework and ensuring Legal Aid contract requirements and performance targets are met. You will be able… continue reading
LAPG’s response to proposed reforms of the justice system
LAPG welcomes today’s announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister of an increase in investment across the court system in an effort to reduce case backlogs and improve the system’s digital and physical infrastructure. For too long, governments have failed to recognise the vital role that the criminal and civil justice systems play in underpinning the… continue reading
PAMELA Network
Peri-Menopausal and Menopausal Legal Aid Support Network
PAMELA SOCIAL – Vagina Museum
We are delighted to confirm that we will be having a social at the Vagina Museum (near Bethnal Green tube) from 6 to late on Thursday 19 March 2026. The event is kindly sponsored and co-hosted by the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA) and Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAGP). The Vagina Museum is a… continue reading
LAPG Online Supervision Course – 22nd January 2026
Event Details For new LAA Supervisors or those wishing to refresh their supervisory skills. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS BEING DELIVERED ONLINE. JOINING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE SENT SEPARATELY VIA EMAIL – DO NOT ACCESS THE COURSE USING EVENTBRITE. If you have any questions please email Andrea at andrea.shumaker@lapg.co.uk This course will have built in breaks as… continue reading
LAPG Online Supervision Course – 19th November 2026
For new LAA Supervisors or those wishing to refresh their supervisory skills. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS BEING DELIVERED ONLINE. JOINING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE SENT SEPARATELY VIA EMAIL – DO NOT ACCESS THE COURSE USING EVENTBRITE. If you have any questions please email Andrea at andrea.shumaker@lapg.co.uk This course will have built in breaks as well as… continue reading
LAPG Online Supervision Course – 24th September 2026
For new LAA Supervisors or those wishing to refresh their supervisory skills. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS BEING DELIVERED ONLINE. JOINING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE SENT SEPARATELY VIA EMAIL – DO NOT ACCESS THE COURSE USING EVENTBRITE. If you have any questions please email Andrea at andrea.shumaker@lapg.co.uk This course will have built in breaks as well as… continue reading
LAPG Online Supervision Course – 11th June 2026
For new LAA Supervisors or those wishing to refresh their supervisory skills. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS BEING DELIVERED ONLINE. JOINING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE SENT SEPARATELY VIA EMAIL – DO NOT ACCESS THE COURSE USING EVENTBRITE. If you have any questions please email Andrea at andrea.shumaker@lapg.co.uk This course will have built in breaks as well as… continue reading
LAPG Online Supervision Course – 26th March 2026
For new LAA Supervisors or those wishing to refresh their supervisory skills. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS BEING DELIVERED ONLINE. JOINING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE SENT SEPARATELY VIA EMAIL – DO NOT ACCESS THE COURSE USING EVENTBRITE. If you have any questions please email Andrea at andrea.shumaker@lapg.co.uk This course will have built in breaks as well as… continue reading
Management and Leadership Programme
About The Management & Leadership Programme (MLP) is a unique, sector-specific learning journey for managers and emerging leaders working in law centres, CABx, and other advice charities. It’s designed to help the people who hold the sector together – those managing teams, projects and organisations – to develop the skills, confidence and perspective they need… continue reading
Our History
A Brief History of LAPG Carol Storer OBE, LAPG Director from 2008–2018, has been thumbing through the LAPG archives and will be helping us to publish a detailed online history of LAPG later this year. In the meantime, Carol has sampled some pithy comments from the early years: – Legal aid practitioners will look back… continue reading
LAPG Conference 2025
Monday 20th October 2025
LALY Nomination
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Parliamentary Engagement
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Access to Justice
LALY Awards
“One for all and all for legal aid!”
Courses
Here, you will find an overview of our current courses. We offer legal aid specific training as well as management training for private practice and not-for-profit agencies.
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Management and Leadership Programme
Price: Free
This course has been funded by the Legal education Foundation and the AB Charitable Trust and it is delivered in partnership with the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.
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LAPG Conference 2024
The LAPG Annual Conference took place on Friday, 8th of November 2024 at Herbert Smith Freehills.
People Management: Building & Managing Your Team – 7th & 14th Oct.
Each session runs online from 10am to 4pm with breaks and is accompanied by a full set of written materials. This course is perfectly pitched at new managers (and potential managers) working in private practice but is a great reminder session for those who have been managing for some time. Please note that you will… continue reading
LALY Awards 2025 – General Admission Ticket
Join us for the 23rd Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards, or LALYs, organised by Legal Aid Practitioners Group on a not-for-profit basis
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LAPG is a membership body representing legal aid practitioners in England and Wales and the clients they serve. We believe that access to justice is a fundamental right and as such we campaign for a fair, comprehensive and accessible legal aid scheme. We work closely with other representative bodies to raise awareness about the importance… continue reading
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Who we are Suggested text: Our website address is: https://lapg.co.uk. Comments Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a… continue reading
LAPG supports the PAMELA initiative
What is PAMELA?PAMELA is a new support network focused on the implications of the (peri)menopause for legal aid lawyers and the advice sector. The network will provide opportunities for sharing resources and ideas including policies, practices and information, as well as a regular space for women to connect. The network will create both physical and… continue reading
Getting to know the LAPG Team – Ariana Jahromi
Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Researcher What do you do? I read, then search, then re-search, then research, then finally write something. What is the best bit of the job? Not to sound sappy, but the energy of this specific team and the constant motion genuinely inspires me. The office banter is A grade too. Quick… continue reading
LAPG submits its response to the MOJ RoCLA Call for Evidence
On 21 February 2024 we submitted our response to the Ministry of Justice’s Review of Civil Legal Aid Call for Evidence. Our response provides a detailed explanation of the myriad issues undermining the ability of legal aid practitioners to meet the needs of clients. In particular, we focused on the following key, overarching issues: There… continue reading
Applications for the 2024 LAPG MLP are now open
We are excited to invite applications for the 2024 LAPG Management & Leadership Programme. This bespoke programme is aimed at managers and future managers in the non-profit specialist advice sector. Check out the details here.
Death and downsizing by Carol Storer
Although the obvious subject for a blog for the LAPG website is a world-weary critique of legal aid and the lack of interest or indeed the outright hostility of the government, I thought a more practical blog would be better. Slightly therapeutic for me but hopefully a few tips that are useful. Do put in… continue reading
Getting to know the LAPG Team – Thomas Rigard-Asquith
Thomas Rigard-Asquith, double-barrelled for equality. Half my job consists in running the Management & Leadership Programme under Matt Howgate and Vicky Ling’s strict authority. Andrea Shumaker used to run this before me, so I’ve got big shoes to fill. On a day-to-day basis, this means making sure everyone is attending sessions, has the relevant materials,… continue reading
