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 […]
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 […]
Our report on sustainability in prison law legal aid published today 7 August 2023, shows three-quarters of respondents do not anticipate being prison law legal aid lawyers in three years’ time. A copy of the report can be viewed here. The number of prison law legal aid providers has already been decimated, falling by 85% […]