News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

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

24 January 2020

Publish date: 24/01/2020

Sweeping away months of uncertainty, the ever present Withdrawal Act Bill received Royal Assent on Thursday, to be swiftly signed by the European Commission under the authority of Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, this morning in Brussels. Without pomp or circumstance, Mr Michel said that "things will inevitably change but our friendship will remain". The Treaty is currently winging its way back to London to be signed by the Prime Minister before pinging back across the Channel to be ratified by MEPs next Wednesday.

There were cheers in Parliament on Thursday when the speaker announced the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act with the PM stating that "At times it felt like we would never cross the Brexit finish line, but we've done it," The MEP's Constitutional Affairs Committee Chair, Antonio Tajani was not so upbeat stating "A member state is leaving the EU. It's not a moment for celebration. Although we firmly respect the sovereign decision of the British people, we deeply reject this outcome."

So now the work must begin in order to transition from the EU. What can we expect? Formal talks on a trade deal might not realistically start until March due to the sheer volume of states, with security and law enforcement also requiring new agreement. Industry bodies have today written to home secretary Priti Patel to call for a deep cut in the proposed £30,000 minimum salary threshold for migrant workers after Brexit and worker's rights protection was removed from the Withdrawal Act bill, and will now form part of a separate bill to be announced. Further, unaccompanied children with relatives in the UK will now be the subject of a ministerial statement setting out the policy in late March.

For local government, questions remain around structural funds, the shared prosperity fund and use of LEP's, data flow, environmental standards, worker's rights, chid refugees, state aid and the procurement framework to name but a few. Now that the requirement for the government's negotiating position on the future relationship with the EU to be approved by Parliament has been removed and the political declaration (the non-legally binding document that accompanied the withdrawal agreement setting out aspirations for the future relationship with the EU) no longer has to be in line with negotiations, it is somewhat challenging to make representations on legal proposals we simply cannot see. That said, we can make educated conclusions about the types of issue we should be raising in advance, to try and influence policy before it becomes law.

With that in mind, LLG are looking to establish a working group to come together and feed into the issues we are most concerned about. Very much like our Brexit statement in January 2019, we are looking to cover the fundamental areas that effect our authorities and communities in order to influence at the highest levels to ensure the legal framework, when it arrives, is fit for purpose and workable.

If you are interested in contributing, then please do get in touch.

Best wishes

Helen McGrath

Head of Public Affairs

Helen@llg.org.uk

News & Events

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