NEW Policy Insights: Access to Justice and the need for Civil Legal Aid Reform in Scotland 💡⚖️ Read recommendations from @glasgow.ac.uk experts @johynes.bsky.social, Fiona McPhail, and Jack Smith on how legal aid should be reformed to strengthen access to justice. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings. Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time. eprints.gla.ac.uk/361308/1/361...

📄 We, along with Together with Migrant Children (@twmcuk.bsky.social) and Public Law Project (@publiclawproject.bsky.social), were pleased to launch the report 'Experiences of Accessing Education in Asylum Accommodation', following a six-month research project funded by ILPA’s Strategic Legal Fund.

things have got even worse since the legal aid census, with at least 57% of new asylum applicants now unable to access a legal aid lawyer, and housing providers withdrawing from the sector. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #OA paper in TIBG: 'Physical and virtual spaces across a continuum of remoteness: Exploring spatial ruptures in remote court hearings' by Jo Hynes This paper engages with digital developments in court space through ethnographic research into UK immigration bail hearings doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Just published:Public Law Project's brilliant new report on a research project monitoring real capacity for asylum legal aid providers to take on work remotely from South West advice desert. Spoiler: turns out there was v little real capacity, esp for appeals! publiclawproject.org.uk/content/uplo...