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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Impact of changes to civil legal aid under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

Inquiry by the Justice Committee, 17 December 2013 to 20 July 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 8 July 2014: Judith March, Director, Personal Support Unit ; Julie Bishop, Director, Law Centres Network; and Gillian Guy, Chief Executive, Citizens Advice Bureaux Nicholas Lavender QC, Chairman, Bar Council; Andrew Caplen, Vice-President, Law Society; and Jenny Beck, Co-Chair, Legal Aid Practitioners Group
  • 2 September 2014: Dave Emmerson, Co-Chair, Legal Aid Committee, Resolution; Jane Robey, Director, National Family Mediation;Susan Jacklin QC, Chair, Family Law Bar Association;Nicola Jones-King, Co-Chair, Association of Lawyers for Children; and Clare Laxton, Public Policy Officer, Women’s Aid; Emma Scott, Director, Rights of Women; Phillippa Newis, Policy Officer, Gingerbread
  • 21 October 2014: John Gallagher, Shelter; Connor Johnston, Garden Court Housing Chambers Team; Sara Stephens, Housing Law Practitioners Association; Carita Thomas, co-convener of Legal Aid Subcommittee, Immigration Law Practitioners Association; Denise McDowell, Director, Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit; Sarah Campbell, Bail for Immigration Detainees; Ruth Hayes, Islington Law Centre; Catherine Evans, Southwark Law Centre; Anita Hurrell, Coram Children's Legal Centre and Paula Twigg, Mary Ward Legal Centre
  • 19 November 2014: Lord Low of Dalston, Chair and James Sandbach, Campaigns and Research Manager, Low Commission; Elisabeth Davies, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel, Steve Brooker, Consumer Panel Manager, Legal Services Consumer Panel, David Holland, Chief Executive and James O'Connell, Head of Policy, Institute of Paralegals
  • 1 December 2014: Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, Lord Justice Sullivan, Senior President of Tribunals and Steve Matthews, Magistrates' Association
  • 10 December 2014: Shailesh Vara MP, Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid, Ministry of Justice and Matthew Coats, Director of Legal Aid Casework, Legal Aid Agency.