Events | APPG AccessToJustice

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Events

The APPG on Access to Justice hosts regular events in Westminster and at party conferences. Each event explores a different issue in relation to access to justice, learning insights from MPs, Peers, practitioners, and those with lived experience.

To keep up to date with upcoming meetings and to receive early invitations, please contact APPGA2J@lapg.co.uk.

Doing Data Justice

10 June 2026

Panel event with Lord Timpson, exploring the use of linked administrative data to expand access to justice and drive cross-departmental policy development, examining the tension between the benefits of data-sharing for joined-up service delivery and service user concerns around how personal data is collected, used and retained.

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The Hillsborough Bill: A Landmark for Legal Aid

16 December 2025

Sarah Russell MP, on behalf of the APPG on Access to Justice and in collaboration with The Law Society is delighted to be hosting the Lord Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon David Lammy to discuss the Public Office (Accountability) Bill - AKA, The Hillsborough Bill.

The Advice Gap: Pro Bono Week 2025

4 November 2025

Panel event exploring the spread and prevalence of legal advice deserts and the geographic and systemic challenges driving access gaps across the UK, highlighting sharp reductions in community care, education, housing, immigration, welfare and family provision, and the acute impact on rural and coastal areas.

Freedom Curtailed: Coercive Control and Economic Abuse

22 October 2025

Panel event with Minister Jess Phillips, exploring coercive control and economic abuse ahead of the Government's forthcoming VAWG strategy, examining the systemic failures across family courts, welfare and financial systems that enable post-separation abuse.

Access to Justice, Legal Aid, and the State of the Estate

21 July 2025

Panel event highlighting the severe and interconnected challenges affecting access to justice in the UK, centred on the impact of the LAA data breach and the escalating criminal courts backlog.

Independent Sentencing Review

18 June 2025

The session explored the urgent and growing crisis that informed the creation of the Independent Sentencing Review, but also the significant opportunity to reorient the justice system toward reducing reoffending, strengthening rehabilitation, and ensuring fair, timely and proportionate decision-making across custody, probation and early legal advice.

Justice in the Digital Era

19 May 2025

Panel exploring how AI is reshaping access to justice in the UK, highlighting both its clear potential to improve equal and effective access to justice (through tools that can streamline administrative tasks, support advisors, democratise legal information, and help more people reach the services they need) and the significant risks that could undermine human rights, fairness, privacy, and the rule of law.

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