About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of legal funding and the issues within the UK justice system, including court delays and prison overcrowding.

Why does funding legal advice matter and how law affects everyone in society and why delays in courts and overcrowded prisons are becoming a serious problem. Alma-Constance and Lucinda explore what’s happening inside the UK’s justice system with Richard Atkinson, criminal defence solicitor with more than 30 years’ experience and the 180th President of the Law Society of England and Wales. In this episode we discuss Why criminal trials are now scheduled four years into the fu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Alma-Constance Denis-Smith, Lucinda Acland

Guest: Richard Atkinson

Topics covered

• legal advice
• justice system
• court delays
• prison overcrowding
• criminal trials
• funding
• societal impact

Keywords

• legal advice
• justice system
• court delays
• prison overcrowding
• criminal trials
• funding
• Richard Atkinson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Law Society of England and Wales

Places: UK

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