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Join us at the Community Care Conference 2025 with
@39essexchambers.bsky.social for expert insight, legal updates & practical guidance.

📍 39 Essex Chambers, London
🗓️ 21 Oct
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📢 Panel Highlight: Update on Community Care Cases From the Last 12 Months

Sian Davies & Sam Fowles of @39essexchambers.bsky.social will unpack the most impactful recent community care cases, providing attendees with a comprehensive update.

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Nottingham Law Centre – housing paralegal Nottingham Law Centre – housing paralegal – full time – office-based but with option of hybrid working

📢 JOB ALERT Nottingham Law Centre is looking to recruit a housing paralegal (full time) to join the team. Applications close 28 October 2025 at 12 noon www.lag.org.uk/jobs/217385/...

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📢 JOB ALERT Nottingham Law Centre is looking to recruit a solicitor or experienced housing adviser (full time) to join the team. Applications close 28 October 2025 at 12 noon www.lag.org.uk/jobs/217384/...

🎉 October's Legal Action is here - subscribers, check your inboxes!


This month's editorial: Leaking sewage and dead seagulls rotting in the roof.

@suejames.bsky.social on how the neglected state of our courts has become a metaphor for how little successive governments value the justice system.

LAG Community Care Conference 2025 Legal Action Group, Community Care Law Conference 2025, in collaboration with 39 Essex Chambers

🚨 Last chance for early bird tickets for our Community Care Conference with @39essexchambers.bsky.social - available until 8pm today!

Join leading experts in community care law on 21 Oct in London.

🎟 Lunch & networking drinks included
👉 Book now: tinyurl.com/6sc8z4dv

We're delighted to partner with @publiclawproject.bsky.social & @39essexchambers.bsky.social on this training based on our book 'Making Lawful Decisions' by @stevebroach.bsky.social and @torbc.bsky.social.

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Subscriptions Subscribe to Legal Action magazine today!

Prison Law: recent developments

Hamish Arnott, Simon Creighton and @jane-ryan.bsky.social round up key cases on the Parole Board, compassionate release, and habeas corpus.

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@bhattmurphy.bsky.social

𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 📖

Simon Osborne (@cpaguk.bsky.social) delves into the latest case law shaping claims, payments, overpayments, appeals (including tribunals), human rights and European law.

📌 Read the full analysis in this month's issue - available to subscribers: www.lag.org.uk/subscriptions

“Little improvement” in dilapidated courts, says Law Society Solicitors have reported “little improvement” in the dilapidated state of court estate over the past three years, with problems including rotting seagulls and maggots “raining down” into a lobby.

“Little improvement” in dilapidated courts, says Law Society zurl.co/IlIZX

⏳ Early bird tickets for our Community Care Conference at 39 Essex Chambers end 29 September!

👉 Join us for a day of insight, action & networking with leading experts and frontline advocates in community care law.

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We're delighted to have sent our Social Justice packs to this year's brilliant cohort of Legal Education Foundation's Justice First Fellows.

The Fellowship supports aspiring lawyers to pursue #SocialJustice law. We're proud to play a small part in this.

#AccessToJustice

Rights for late applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme Niamh Grahame looks at the implications of making a successful late application.

Inside September's Legal Action Magazine✨

Niamh Grahame explores the rights of late EU Settlement Scheme applicants and the issues arising from the UK’s restrictive approach.

Click to learn more! swiy.co/i8nb @publiclawproject.bsky.social

Need to know: strategic litigation for housing lawyers Helen Mowatt and Sam Tippet set out what housing lawyers need to know about strategic litigation.

Spotlight on September's Legal Action Magazine✨

Helen Mowatt and Sam Tippett explain how housing lawyers can use equality legislation to bring successful strategic litigation.

Read more 👇 @pilc-campaigns.bsky.social

🟩 New edition of the Court of Protection Handbook OUT NOW! 🟩

Your comprehensive guide to the COP, aimed not only at lawyers but also the increasing number of people who are involved in proceedings without legal help.

ORDER YOUR COPY www.lag.org.uk/shop/book-ti...

#AccessToJustice

⚖️ 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 𝗛𝗖 𝘃 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆

Youth justice lawyer and campaigner Shauneen Lambe on the case that brought stronger protections for 17-year-olds in the police station.

Read more 👇 swiy.co/hvTn

More luck than judgment James Burley, the investigator who helped exonerate Andrew Malkinson, on the lessons that remain unlearned and why proposed reforms do not go far enough.

"More luck than judgment"

James Burley, the investigator who helped free Andrew Malkinson, on the failings by the Court of Appeal and CCRC that kept his innocent client behind bars for nearly two decades -and the lessons that still need to be learned.

@we-are-appeal.bsky.social

Courage, compassion and commitment ‘Better vibes than the Baftas’ was the verdict of the host of this year’s Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards. Sue James reports.

🌟 "Better vibes than the Baftas!"

@suejames.bsky.social reports on this year's glittering @lalyawards.bsky.social, which celebrate lawyers on the social justice frontline.

@wearelapg.bsky.social

Objection: Why every word counts To find out what went wrong in a miscarriage of justice, you need a complete record of the trial – not easy in the UK, says Emily Bolton.

📜 "Every word said at trial counts"

Emily Bolton on why, when it comes to challenging miscarriages of justice, a judge's summing up can never be a substitute for a full transcript.

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📢 Join our Violence Against Women & Girls Update – next Wednesday!

Nogah Ofer, Sophie Naftalin & Helen Law will unpack their latest insights from the June edition of Legal Action Magazine.

👉 Register now: swiy.co/VAWG25

@bhattmurphy.bsky.social @matrixlaw.bsky.social #CentreforWomensJustice

"They crash; we burn" 🔥

Family lawyer @oliverconway.bsky.social on the shattering impact of the Legal Aid Agency's data breach.

📰 Discover the full piece 👉 swiy.co/htDx

@newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com described him as 'an older, rather ruddy gentleman who wouldn't have looked out of place in an Evelyn Waugh novel'.

@fionabawdon.bsky.social on the 'access to justice champion' behind the controversial Afghan superinjunction in Sept's Legal Action mag.

Spotlight on September's Legal Action Magazine

CEO @suejames.bsky.social reflects on the Levenson Review, the Crown Court backlog, and why restricting jury trials risks undermining fairness, diversity, and public confidence in the justice system.

Read more 👉swiy.co/ht8a

🥳 And that’s a wrap! 🥳

The new edition of the Court of Protection Handbook is now officially at the printers!

Available from the 3rd week of Sept but you can pre-order your print copy now: www.lag.org.uk?id=216768

#AccessToJustice

Upper Tribunal endorses practice of judges considering permission to appeal applications against their own decisions - Free Movement The appellant had applied for permission to appeal the First-tier Tribunal’s decision on the grounds that “the FTT acted procedurally unfairly, because the

In case you missed it: Upper Tribunal endorses practice of judges considering permission to appeal applications against their own decisions | Sonia Lenegan

Need to know: disability discrimination and homelessness appeals Nick Bano on what lawyers need to know about bringing homelessness appeals and discrimination claims, following RZH v Sutton LBC.

Legal Action Spotlight

Nick Bano of @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on what social justice lawyers need to know following RHZ v Sutton.

'It is useful and invigorating that there is now a clear route for including discrimination points in homelessness challenges.'

➡️ Read here swiy.co/h6eS

Desert island judgments: R (G) v Southwark LBC Dr Laura Janes on a landmark case that ensured homeless children have a legal right to be housed.

⚖️𝗚 𝘃 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗟𝗕𝗖

@laurajanes.bsky.social KC (Hon) reflects on her Desert Island Judgment in Legal Action magazine.

'Southwark sets out seven simple questions to work out when a homeless child will need to be offered accommodation and support from a local authority'

Read here ➡️ swiy.co/h6Ym

Southwark sees 77% rise in homeless children, report finds There is one classroom worth of homeless children for every primary school, the report says.

BBC coverage of a powerful new report by @neweconomics.bsky.social's @hollies.bsky.social about the impact of temporary accommodation on children's mental health, with a focus on Southwark where there is one classroom worth of homeless children for every primary school www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It sounds wild but you could be prosecuted & convicted in England & Wales without a trained lawyer being involved. This was uncovered by the Office for Rail & Road when investigating prosecution of people for not having the right rail ticket www.transformjustice.org.uk/publication/...

'Heathrow third runway is the wrong answer to the wrong question' - LabourList Britain’s future prosperity depends not on more tarmac, but on leadership that prioritises sustainability, community well-being, and inclusive economic renewal.

I have long opposed Heathrow expansion. Arguments for a third runway claim to support growth and national interest, yet ignore the realities of our climate obligations, public health, and the long-term wellbeing of west London communities.

labourlist.org/2025/08/heat...