The Howard League and the Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) announced today (17 March) that they will appeal after the High Court dismissed a legal challenge

Legal aid cuts for prisoners face high court challange

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Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners’ Advice Service seek permission for judicial reviews against cuts to legal aid
Date: Thursday 6 March 2014

Our Joint Managing Solicitor, Deborah Russo, has written an article for Criminal Law & Justice Weekly clarifying what the recent cuts mean for prison law.

Laura Orger, Community Care Caseworker at the Prisoners’ Advice Service, has written a piece for Inside Time magazine on the Equality Act 2010

Hear Lady Edwina Grosvenor, who is reading the PAS Radio 4 Appeal on Sunday January 5th, explain why she supports our work.
Many thanks to all those who have supported us …

The Prisoners’ Advice Service is to be the subject of the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on Sunday January 5th 2014.

PAS, together with the Howard League for Penal Reform, has issued judicial review proceedings against the Ministry of Justice following their decision

On 5th September, a few weeks after signalling his ‘ideological’ opposition to prisoners receiving legal aid, Chris Grayling cut legal aid for all prisoner ‘complaints’

“The Trustees of the Prisoners Advice Service wish to announce that, Matthew Evans, Managing Solicitor, will be leaving PAS on the 18th October 2013

Read PAS’s letter to the Guardian here

The Government is proposing wholesale cuts to legal aid including judicial review, which has long been recognised as an important safeguard