Society of Labour Lawyers welcomes the government’s commitments to abolish no fault evictions (s.21 Housing Act 1988) as set out in the consultation paper. In August last year we responded to the Labour Party’s green paper Housing For The Many, in which we encouraged the Labour Party to abolish section 21. We were therefore delighted…

The Rule of Law – Is Justice Under Attack? A conversation with the Labour Party Legal front bench, the Vice President of the Law Society and a representative from the Bar Council about recent events and Labour’s approach to the Rule of Law ahead of the next General Election. at 6pm, Sunday 22 September 2019,…

Following tonight’s successful event with John Healey MP, and the publication of the related Land for the Many: Changing the way our fundamental asset is used, owned and governed (an independent report commissioned by the Labour Party), this is the SLL Housing Group’s submission on last year’s Housing Green Paper Housing for the Many 1….

Last week the Young Labour Lawyers had their AGM. Please join me in congratulating the new committee: Chair: Daniel Jones Vice-Chair: Bren Albiston Secretary: Axel Landin Membership Officer: Elsie Powers At the AGM a motion was passed unanimously to rename the Young Labour Lawyers to the Junior Labour Lawyers (JLL) to reflect how law students…

Our final fringe meeting was co-hosted (as always) with JUSTICE and focused on Reforms to the Justice system. The meeting was chaired by Catherine Atkinson (SLL secretary and Labour PPC for Erewash) and featured Andrew Walker of the Bar, Simon Davies of the Law Society, Jodie Blackstock of JUSTICE and Shami Chakrabarti.  Shami Chakrabarti was…

SLL’s Annual General Meeting was held at the Law Society on 12 December 2018. Chair, Kate O’Rourke summarised the Society’s work this year, including a PFI event with Labour Business, Family Group round table with Emma Lewell-Buck, the City Group events and our Conference programme. New groups have been set up in Manchester and Bristol…

In our first Fringe meeting of Party Conference, we welcomed Labour’s shadow justice front bench: Nick Thomas-Symonds, Shami Chakrabarti and Richard Burgon as well as representatives from the Law Society (Simon Davies) and Bar Council (Richard Atkins QC). Shami started by reassuring attendees that lawyers are at the heart of this shadow front bench (about…

Labour City Lawyers met on 11 September 2018 to discuss Labour’s plans for public ownership of national utilities. Unfortunately, Jon Trickett MP was taken ill but we were joined by a more than adequate replacement: Professor David Hall, founding director of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich; who joined Cat Hobbs, founding…

SLL’s Family law sub-group were delighted to meet for the first time with Labour’s Shadow Education Minister for Children and Families Policy Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields, at Parliament on Wednesday 12 September 2018. We first discussed the ‘care crisis’ facing the family courts. Outgoing President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has…

Introduction The Society of Labour Lawyers (“SLL”) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Democracy Review as a key part of the Labour Party and the wider Labour movement. SLL values our role and history in the Party and exists to be the legal think tank of the Party, to provide specialist legal advice when…