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
- Clare Cater – Access to Justice Foundation
- Dame Clare Moriarty – Citizens Advice
- Fiona Rutherford – JUSTICE
- Phil Jew – Advice Services Alliance
- Julie Bishop – Law Centres Network
- Ali McGinley – Legal Education Foundation
- Prof Dame Hazel Genn – University College London
- Phil Robertson – Bar Council
- Lucy Dennett – The Law Society
- Ash Patel – Nuffield Foundation
- Sir Robin Knowles – Legal and Advice Sector Roundtable
- Carol Storer – Legal and Advice Sector Roundtable
- Natalie Byrom – Independent Consultant
- Chris Minnoch – Legal Aid Practitioners Group