Cambridge looked characteristically beautiful during the Legal Services Research Centre’s 8th annual conference. Given the global nature of the recession, attendance held up pretty well—bolstered by a somewhat disproportionately large delegation from Australian legal centres.
Cambridge looked characteristically beautiful during the Legal Services Research Centre’s 8th annual conference. Given the global nature of the recession, attendance held up pretty well—bolstered by a somewhat disproportionately large delegation from Australian legal centres. Few from the UK, however, were unaware of the legal aid storm to come. The atmosphere, all in all, was close to what it must have been in those long Edwardian summers just before the First World War.
The research centre will do well to survive and odds must be against a ninth conference at the customary two-yearly interval. Research struggles to get support from policy practitioners at the best of times. Attendance from the high ups at the Legal Services Commission and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was notably sparse. The Commission is, of course, currently decapitated and being absorbed within a Ministry focused almost entirely on advising on what cuts it might get
