Dr Jo Wilding
@jowilding.bsky.social
Legal aid geek, researcher and associate professor at Sussex University, author of 'The Legal Aid Market' (Policy Press), lawyer, mum, athletics obsessive, ex clown.
Yes, exactly that. If the auditing system caught those (very occasional but serious) cases like this and Blavo (that the contracting and payment systems perversely incentivise) then the micromanagement might be justifiable, but this shows what a counterproductive waste of money it is.
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Yes, exactly that. If the auditing system caught those (very occasional but serious) cases like this and Blavo (that the contracting and payment systems perversely incentivise) then the micromanagement might be justifiable, but this shows what a counterproductive waste of money it is.
work bcs of the stress of audits which ignore quality. Current system drives out quality and misses apparent exploitation.
September 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
work bcs of the stress of audits which ignore quality. Current system drives out quality and misses apparent exploitation.
thousands of people's life & death cases potentially messed up. What was the Legal Aid Agency doing? No apparent oversight, yet a charity doing good quality work had ALL its payment recouped because a caseworker's VALID DBS certificate was at home not in the office-and now does v little legal aid
September 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
thousands of people's life & death cases potentially messed up. What was the Legal Aid Agency doing? No apparent oversight, yet a charity doing good quality work had ALL its payment recouped because a caseworker's VALID DBS certificate was at home not in the office-and now does v little legal aid
Here's an idea. Instead we could pay proper fees to proper lawyers and caseworkers to do a proper job in (maybe going too far now) a properly functioning system.
August 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Here's an idea. Instead we could pay proper fees to proper lawyers and caseworkers to do a proper job in (maybe going too far now) a properly functioning system.
Does frankly appalling job, putting v vulnerable people at huge risk. Either closes or is closed down-not clear which. Now thousands of people with cases already messed up, no hope of new rep given overall dire shortage, serious risk of injustice to them. Public money wasted on predictable disaster.
August 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Does frankly appalling job, putting v vulnerable people at huge risk. Either closes or is closed down-not clear which. Now thousands of people with cases already messed up, no hope of new rep given overall dire shortage, serious risk of injustice to them. Public money wasted on predictable disaster.
Exactly. We supported a woman who had a shrapnel injury from childhood and limited mobility, who was hospitalised after she fell down a badly lit stairwell in an asylum hotel when her room was on a higher floor but asylum seekers were not allowed to use the lifts!!
August 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Exactly. We supported a woman who had a shrapnel injury from childhood and limited mobility, who was hospitalised after she fell down a badly lit stairwell in an asylum hotel when her room was on a higher floor but asylum seekers were not allowed to use the lifts!!
The article is based on research by me, JUSTICE and Dechert LLP which you can find at justice.org.uk/people-need-...
You can still sign the petition for funded legal representation here - www.change.org/p/fund-free-...
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People need legal help: The value of legal representation in the Windrush Compensation Scheme
Survivors of the Home Office Windrush Scandal are receiving drastically less compensation than they deserve. Giving them access to free legal advice can change this, finds this JUSTICE report.
justice.org.uk
July 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The article is based on research by me, JUSTICE and Dechert LLP which you can find at justice.org.uk/people-need-...
You can still sign the petition for funded legal representation here - www.change.org/p/fund-free-...
You can still sign the petition for funded legal representation here - www.change.org/p/fund-free-...
We analysed application data from four rounds of Access to Justice Foundation funding, comprising 560 applications from 350 organisations over a 17-month period to build a picture of the advice sector - part of the ESRC-funded Social Welfare and Immigration Legal Aid Mapping (SWILAmap) project.
July 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We analysed application data from four rounds of Access to Justice Foundation funding, comprising 560 applications from 350 organisations over a 17-month period to build a picture of the advice sector - part of the ESRC-funded Social Welfare and Immigration Legal Aid Mapping (SWILAmap) project.
more person starves to death, dies from lack of medicine or is murdered while queuing for food aid.
July 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
more person starves to death, dies from lack of medicine or is murdered while queuing for food aid.