Legal Support Strategy Delivery Group
The Legal Support Strategy Delivery Group exists to identify and deliver opportunities to improve the legal support system.
About the Legal Support Strategy Delivery Group
The Legal Support Strategy Delivery Group is a forum for members of the legal support sector and the Ministry of Justice to work collaboratively together to develop and implement a strategy to improve the legal support system over the course of this Parliament.
The group will develop and drive forward a programme of work to make the legal support system more effective, efficient, sustainable, and available to users so that it delivers better outcomes.
It is the central hub for stakeholder engagement for legal support policy, providing external expertise, advice and steer.
The group is made up of academics, practitioners and representatives from the advice and not for profit sectors. The group meets every 2 months and is chaired by the Ministry of Justice Deputy Director of Legal Support and Dispute Resolution policy.
Membership
We intend for the membership of the group to remain flexible, continuously reviewing it to ensure the efficacy of the group. Representatives from other specific relevant parties are also invited on an ad hoc basis, based on the topic of the meeting, to ensure the most relevant expertise is present.
List of members
- Ash Patel, Justice Programme, Nuffield Foundation
- Chris Minnoch, Legal Aid Practitioners Group
- Clare Carter, Access to Justice Foundation
- Clare Moriarty, Citizens Advice
- Fiona Rutherford, JUSTICE
- Julie Bishop, Law Centres Network
- Liz Bayram, AdviceUK
- Liz Curran – Nottingham Trent University
- Lucy Dennett, The Law Society
- Natalie Byrom, Independent Policy Researcher
- Phil Jew, Advice Services Alliance
- Phil Robertson, Bar Council
- Professor Dame Hazel Genn, UCL Researcher
- Sarah Stephens – University of Sussex / Online Procedure Rule Committee
- Stephen Mayson, UCL Researcher
- x2 Attendees, Legal and Advice Sector Roundtable
- x1 Attendee, Greater London Authority
- x2 Attendees, Welsh Government
Documents
Meeting minutes
- [Attachment: LSSDG_Meeting_minutes_-_March_2025.pdf]