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Joint APL and LAPG submission to the Gauke Review  on sentencing

Posted on May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

Last month the APL and LAPG made a short joint submission to the Sentencing Review which is due to report “soon” according to a speech made by the Lord Chancellor last week. The short submission highlights that proposed changes may have an impact on the need for people in prison to have appropriate access to […]

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Statement by the Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) on first proposed fee increase in decades

Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

The APL welcomed proposals issued today, 9 May 2025, by the Ministry of justice to increase the fees in legal aid prison law cases. The consultation document acknowledges that prison law was left out of the increases in criminal legal aid fees by the previous government, despite recommendations that it should be included.  It also notes […]

Judicial Reviews

Association of Prison Lawyers calls for urgent increases to legal aid rates

Posted on February 1, 2024February 1, 2024

PRESS RELEASE 01 February 2024 The Association of Prison Lawyers welcomes the High Court’s judgment on criminal legal aid funding handed down yesterday. The Law Society took the government to court over the decision not to raise criminal legal aid fees by the minimum 15% recommended in the independent criminal legal aid review (the “Bellamy […]

Legal

Justice Barred: the difficulties lawyers face in seeing clients in prison

Posted on January 22, 2024January 22, 2024

22 January 2024 APL has today published a new report which illustrates widespread delays and difficulties lawyers face in getting to see their clients in prison. Despite the exponential leap in the development of technologies in prison, exacerbated by Covid, these facilities are not equally and easily accessible to lawyers who need to see their […]

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Access to Justice for People in Custody During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Posted on June 15, 2020

Joint Letter from the Association of Prison Lawyers and Legal Aid Practitioners Group. Link to Letter pdf (225k)

Judicial Reviews

SSJ/PB Independence Challenge by APL Member Firm Swain & Co.

Posted on June 29, 2018June 29, 2018

On 26 July 2018 APL Member firm Swain & Co. have issued a claim for judicial review alleging that the Parole Board is not sufficiently independent to meet the requirements of a court, and seeking an order staying the current Chair recruitment process. Former head of the Parole Board Nick Hardwick provided a witness statement to […]

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  • APL Response to Criminal Legal Aid
  • APL Paper on the changes proposed by the Gauke review
  • Joint APL and LAPG submission to the Gauke Review  on sentencing
  • Statement by the Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) on first proposed fee increase in decades
  • Next APL Event: Justice delayed is justice denied: how to bring damages claims for delays in Parole cases

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