Public Legal Education and Pro Bono APPG
First Registered: 28/09/2017 • Last updated on: 17/11/2021
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To promote pro bono work and public legal education (PLE) nationally and internationally, to provide a forum for parliamentarians to work with the legal sector to foster a supportive policy environment for PLE and pro-bono, and encourage/raise awareness of initiatives to improve legal capability and free legal services provision.
1. Solicitor General visits law students in Reading
24/05/2018 - Attorney General
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Found: will meet with law students who help to give free legal advice to some of the most vulnerable people in
2. Public legal education
11/05/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Number CDP-2018-0119, 11 May 2018 Public legal education Compiler: Sarah Pepin Subject specialist:
3. Will the Solicitor General find Goldilocks guilty?
10/11/2017 - Attorney General
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Found: damage.
The Streetlaw session, designed by BPP’s Pro Bono Centre, is aligned to the National Curriculum
4. Five new appointments to the Civil Justice Council
24/01/2019 - Civil Justice Council
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Found: procedure related subjects including a book on legal professional privilege.
Andrew Higgins has not declared
5. Attorney General visits new Law Clinic at King’s
07/11/2017 - Attorney General
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Found: King’s College London University today to see the pro bono work happening there
Published 7 November
1. Oral Answers to Questions
23/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: is taking to ensure adequate funding for (a) education, (b) research, (c) treatment and (d) support to - Speech Link
2: support for gambling addiction in its long-term plan. Public Health England is reviewing evidence, and GambleAware - Speech Link
3: 2020 for a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes. The rewards from that include support - Speech Link
2. Public Legal Education
15/05/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: move,That this House has considered public legal education.It is a pleasure to serve under - Speech Link
2: young people must be taught about all facets of the legal system, some of which I will deal with later. Indeed - Speech Link
3: making and will make. Does he agree that a public legal education programme should also focus on our diverse - Speech Link
3. Oral Answers to Questions
28/04/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: What discussions she has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on the capacity of the Crown Prosecution - Speech Link
2: What discussions she has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on the capacity of the Crown Prosecution - Speech Link
3: this landmark legislation that provides support—legal and otherwise—for victims of domestic abuse, including - Speech Link
4. Oral Answers to Questions
04/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: pandemic. Does the Minister agree, though, that public money should not be spent on ideologically motivated - Speech Link
2: Lowry in Manchester has relaunched its emergency public appeal is a warning beacon blazing in our cultural - Speech Link
3: racist abuse as the price to pay for being in the public eye”,the Secretary of State assured footballers - Speech Link
5. Oral Answers to Questions
26/05/2016 - Commons Chamber
1: taken to promote (a) public legal education and (b) the provision of pro bono legal services. (905096) - Speech Link
2: taken to promote (a) public legal education and (b) the provision of pro bono legal services. (905099) - Speech Link
3: taken to promote (a) public legal education and (b) the provision of pro bono legal services. [R] (905100) - Speech Link
asked by: John Grogan
24/07/2018
... what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work of the Public Legal Evaluation Panel to date. 2. Legal Representation: Public Interest
asked by: Richard Burgon
17/06/2019
... how many applications have been made on behalf of bereaved families for Exceptional Case Funding for legal representation at inquests under the public interest test in each of the last three years. 3. Legal Representation: Public Interest
asked by: Richard Burgon
17/06/2019
... how many applications made on behalf of bereaved families for Exceptional Case Funding for legal representation at inquests under the public interest test were granted on first application in each of the last three years. 4. Legal Representation: Public Interest
asked by: Richard Burgon
17/06/2019
... how many applications made on behalf of bereaved families for Exceptional Case Funding for legal representation at inquests under the public interest test were granted on appeal in each of the last three years. 5. Legal Representation: Public Interest
asked by: Richard Burgon
17/06/2019
... how much funding has been granted to successful applicants for Exceptional Case Funding for legal representation at inquests under the public interest test in each of the last three years.
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6 Current APPG Officers
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Acquired Brain Injury , Alternative Dispute Resolution , Archives and History , Autism , Banning Trophy Hunting , Boxing , Cancer , Coalfield Communities , Environment , Flood Prevention , Fusion Energy , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , Hospitality and Tourism , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Immigration Law and Policy , Industrial Heritage , Motor Neurone Disease , Multiple Sclerosis , Music , Mutuals , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Ovarian Cancer , Rail in Wales , Restorative Justice , River Thames , Sepsis , Sport , T Levels , UK Shared Prosperity Fund , Vegetarianism and Veganism , Wales in the World , Western Rail Link to Heathrow
Assistive Technology , Disability , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Global Education , Legal Aid
Axial Spondyloarthritis , Citizens Rights , Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf , Events , Extraordinary Rendition , Fire Safety and Rescue , Gypsies, Travellers and Roma , Heathrow Expansion and Regional Connectivity , Legal Aid , Miscarriages of Justice , Online and Home Electrical Safety , Palestine , Poland , Short Lets Sector , Trafficked Britons in Syria , Weddings , Wine and Spirits
Antisemitism , Beer , Cameroon , Cancer , Dark Skies , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Equipment for Disabled Children , Equitable Life Policyholders , Fair Business Banking , Financial Resilience , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , HIV and AIDS , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Italy , Learning Disability , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Parkinson's , Parkrun , Pension Clawback , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Roadside Rescue and Recovery , Rowing , Rugby League , Rugby Union Football Club , Single Parent Families , Tennis , Timber Industries , Wales in the World , Wrestling
Adult Education , Adult Social Care , American Football , BBC , Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World , Cricket , Dance , Digital Identity , Film and Broader Screen , Financial Technology , Football , ITV , Miscarriages of Justice , Performing Arts Education and Training , Sweden , United Nations Women , Video Games and Esports
Contact Details
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Laura Farris MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.
Email: laura.farris.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
James Sandbach, LawWorks, 296-302 High Holborn, London WC1V 7JH. Tel: 07508 327 606
Email: James.Sandbach@lawworks.org.uk
Secretariat:
LawWorks acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.lawworks.org.uk/
Benefits in Kind
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LawWorks
Secretariat From : 08/09/2021 To : 07/09/2022
£3,001
21 Jul 2018
LawWorks
Secretariat From : 21/07/2018 To : 20/07/2019
£7,501
21 Jul 2017
LawWorks
Secretariat From : 21/07/2017 To : 20/07/2018
£15,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Public Legal Education and Pro Bono APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Alex Chalk
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Cheltenham
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Youth Action against Climate Change
Bermuda , Caribbean , China , Coalfield Communities , Consumer Protection , Debt and Personal Finance , Hormone Pregnancy Tests , Legal Aid , Mortgage Prisoners , Online and Home Electrical Safety , Pension Clawback , Respiratory Health , Rugby League , Singapore , Tunisia , United Arab Emirates
Robert Neill
Secretary
Conservative - Bromley and Chislehurst
Joined: 27th March 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Channel Islands , Financial Markets and Services , France , Gibraltar , Hungary , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , London , London as a Global City , London's Planning and Built Environment , Miscarriages of Justice , Norfolk Island , Opera , Rohingya , Rule of Law , Stroke
Tom Tugendhat
Officer
Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Afghanistan , Extreme Poverty , Fair Business Banking , Food Banks , Packaging Manufacturing Industry , Parental Participation in Education
Jonathan Djanogly
Secretary
Conservative - Huntingdon
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 21st November 2018
Baroness Hamwee
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 21st November 2018