Legal aid cuts creating new advice ‘deserts’

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm18th April 2016

The Law Gazette Three years after the government scrapped legal aid across swaths of civil law, more ‘advice deserts’ are materialising in the sectors that remain in scope. Several parts of England and Wales now have inadequate housing law cover which could give rise to potential conflicts of interest, it has emerged. A number of…

Theresa May to put 72-hour limit on detention of pregnant asylum seekers

UncategorizedBy hardwood_adm18th April 2016

The Guardian Home secretary to defy Lords’ demand for all-out ban after outcry greeted news that 99 pregnant women had been held at Yarl’s Wood Protesters outside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedford. Photograph: Andrea Baldo/NurPhoto/Corbis Theresa May will announce plans to place a 72-hour time limit on the detention of pregnant women at…