Defending legal aid payments

Legally aided advice and assistance to claimants has a vital role to play in fighting poverty and social exclusion by ensuring that those most vulnerable in society have a voice.

CPAG is on the steering group of the Access to Justice Alliance, a campaign group set up in 2004 to draw attention to the crisis in the legal aid scheme. Find out more at www.accesstojusticealliance.org.uk.

CPAG also supports the Law Society's What Price Justice? campaign to guarantee an adequately funded legal aid system ensuring quality representation and access to justice for all.

• Read our letter to the Department of Constitutional Affairs about the new contract offered to legal aid practitioners (33 KB PDF document)
• Read CPAG's briefing for MPs on the future funding of legal aid advice services (130 KB Word document)

An Early Day Motion (EDM 537) has been tabled in Parliament on this matter – follow this link http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=32199&SESSION=885 to see if your MP has signed it.

For further information visit www.whatpricejustice.lawsociety.org.uk