News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

Photographs from the Awards Night 2015
Publish date: 05/01/2016
Glam shots from the night. See how many people you recognise!
NEWS - Care and Support Reform Bulletin May 2015
Publish date: 02/06/2015
News Article - CILEX - Legal Apprenticeships
Publish date: 11/06/2014
On 17 October 2013, Philip Thomson attended the CILEX 50th Anniversary Celebration and met Noel Inge who is responsible at CILEX for promoting the legal apprenticeship scheme. Philip followed this up with a meeting on 13 December 2013 with Noel to discuss the scheme in more detail. The scheme is aimed at NEETS. This refers to adults under the age of 24 not in education, employment or training. The scheme provides a way for people classified as NEETS to enter into legal apprenticeships which to some extent are funded by the Government. Attached are documents providing more details about the scheme.
News Article - Careers Brochure now available
Publish date: 11/06/2014
Please see attached our new LLG Careers Brochure. If you are attending law fairs or any similar events and would like us to send you some brochures to hand out, please contact the membership team at the email address below; Membership@lawingov.org.uk
News Article - LawCare – Health Support and Advice for the Legal Professions
Publish date: 11/06/2014
LawCare is a free and completely confidential service to help those working in the legal professions, their immediate families and their staff, to deal with the health issues and related emotional difficulties that can result from a stressful career in the law. LawCare offers the opportunity to discuss problems which are interfering with, or have the potential to interfere with, your work performance and/or your family life and to seek help in resolving these problems. Through the LawCare helpline, support is available to those who are suffering from stress, depression, alcohol or drug addictions, eating disorders, or similar issues.

Blog

12 July 2019

Publish date: 12/07/2019

This week our CEO Deborah Evans hosted a live webinar on the subject of Climate Change with Tanya Corsie, CEO of iken.

We know that local authorities need to reduce emissions and improve carbon absorption. Friends of the earth have produced 33 recommendations for local authorities to consider when addressing climate change (read here) and set out how to achieve these through strategic actions such as a political commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; the development of carbon reduction packages and climate compliant strategies and plans.

There is also a plethora of actions available such as work-place changes; low emissions zones, requiring electric taxis, car sharing, fleet transfer to electric vehicles and integrated car reductions within the local plan. Revenue funding can be raised through workplace parking levy's, section 106 terms, inspection of the private rented sector and housing efficiency savings together with office energy use. Savings can be achieved through LED street lightening, renewable energy use (wind, solar), standard energy performance contracting terms to reduce emissions and requiring the production of bio-gas in waste management contracts.

Deborah surveyed those listening to the webinar and was intrigued to learn that nearly a third had declared a climate change emergency at their authority. Extinction Rebellion recently criticised a borough for implementing projects and plans they argued were inconsistent with that declaration. Caution is therefore required to ensure that every action is assessed and evaluated against the climate change parameters and policies within your authority to avoid such attention and lawyers can play a key role in that assessment.

What is the key message in all this? For Tanya, the removal of single use plastics is key. "You can make small changes and every single small change can have a big impact". Iken are progressive in their carbon reduction commitment and recently staff stopped purchasing balloons for parties. If I told you that a single plastic straw can take 200 years to decompose and that by 2050, it is estimated that plastic in the ocean will match the weight of fish in the ocean you might well agree. For Deborah, the key message is that local authorities should not wait for Government to enforce change by legislation before setting their own key policies and committing to carbon reduction by 2030. You need a strategy now to become greener with actions capable of yearly monitoring.

If you missed the webinar you can register to hear it here

Have a good weekend

Helen McGrath

Head of Public Affairs

Helen@llg.org.uk

News & Events

Photographs from the Awards Night 2015

NEWS - Care and Support Reform Bulletin May 2015

News Article - CILEX - Legal Apprenticeships

News Article - Careers Brochure now available

News Article - LawCare – Health Support and Advice for the Legal Professions