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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.
Freedom Curtailed: Coercive Control and Economic Abuse
22 October 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.
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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