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Immigration Legal Aid Policy

The Ministry of Justice is reviewing its legal aid policy for immigration cases, including asylum appeals and detention matters, following reforms that restricted early legal advice provision. The policy intersects with health and social care worker immigration pathways and detention time limits. Current concerns centre on access to justice, local authority funding gaps, and the impact of accelerated asylum procedures on legal aid availability.

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MoJ’s Treasury Minute response indicated that it had begun discussions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG, or the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as it was then called) to understand whether local authorities were funding immigration legal advice. However, its response on understanding the impact of removing other areas of early legal advice was lacking. For example, it referenced its past Early Legal Advice pilot, which did not genera...

MoJ’s Treasury Minute response indicated that it had begun discussions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG, or the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as it was then called) to understand whether local authorities were …

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