Events
Upcoming:
There are no events currently scheduled
Past:
16 December 2025
The APPG on Access to Justice, in collaboration with The Law Society, hosted the Lord Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon David Lammy to discuss the Public Office (Accountability) Bill - AKA, The Hillsborough Bill. Click here to read more.
4 November 2025
Jayne Kirkham MP, Catroina Filmer, Janani Parasmothy and Rebecca Wilkinson joined us to discuss the spread and prevalence of legal advice deserts and the geographic and systemic challenges driving access gaps across the UK.
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22 October 2025
We hosted the Minister for Safeguarding and VAWG to discuss how coercive control and economic abuse continue to undermine access to justice in the UK, highlighting persistent system failures across legal aid, the family and criminal courts, welfare and financial systems.
21 July 2025
We hosted the Minister for Courts and Legal Services to discuss 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.
18 June 2025
We hosted the author of the Independent Sentencing Review alongside the Minister for Prisons to discuss the crisis in the prison system, but also the intent 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.
19 May 2025
Peter Chamberlin, Ellen Lefley, Jasleen Chagger, Martha De La Roche, and Mia Leslie joined us to discuss how AI is reshaping access to justice in the UK, highlighting both its clear potential to improve equal and effective access to justice and the significant risks that could undermine human rights, fairness, privacy, and the rule of law.
