Welcome to UKLSA Research:

Equality: For example, equality in access to justice, access to the profession.

Science (for justice): Use of scientific advancements for the benefit of justice (e.g. Psychology, Neuroscience and Genetics).

Regulation of Advancements: Regulation of use of scientific advancements to minimise harm to individuals (e.g. regulating use of Genetics and AI).

Share any experience you have had with the justice system

To recommend, and push for, ways to improve access to justice for all it is important that realities of access to justice for represented and unrepresented litigants are known to key stakeholders. Knowing the realities of access to justice is important, because the majority of people who have to use the justice system cannot afford legal representation and so have to act unrepresented (litigants in person).  

We are conducting research on access to justice to put together and make available a report on realities in access to justice for people from different backgrounds.

We invite all justice system users to share their experience with the justice system, including police, ombudsman, tribunals and courts.

None. The information you provide will be anonymised. Names and email addresses will be deleted.

A good cause. And, by sharing your experience, you will help many other people. Read about the tough realities for unrepresented people.

Please include the following details

Email: secretary@uklsa.co.uk. 

• Civil or Criminal case;

• Are you a lawyer;

• Did you have legal representation or did you act as self-represented;

• If unrepresented, reason(s) for that;

• Pre-court experience (e.g. with the police, housing association, Council);

• Which court;

• Length of case (from the time proceedings started);

• Overall experience in court;

• Were you disadvantaged for being unrepresented, and if yes, how?

• Were you treated fairly in court and if not, please specify the unfairness; and

• What you would recommend to other justice system users.

Share the experience you have had with accessing the legal profession

To recommend, and push for, ways to improve access to the legal profession, to it is important that barriers for people from different backgrounds are known to key stakeholders.

We are conducting research to put together and make available a report on barriers to access to the legal profession for people from different backgrounds. For example, at what stage are barriers greatest and what barriers.

None. The information you provide will be anonymised. Names and email addresses will be deleted.

To improve access to justice, we need to improve access to the legal profession, which would in turn make the profession more representative of society it represents (read more…). A good cause. And, by sharing your experience, you will help many other people who want to become lawyers, but are disadvantaged.

Please include the following details

Email: secretary@uklsa.co.uk.

• What pre-university grades did you have

• Did you have an unfair barrier in getting into a law programme in university

• If you had a barrier, what barrier

• How do you propose this unfair barrier can be eliminated

• Are you a Male, female, other

• Your ethnic origin

• Your socio-economic status

• Your residency

• Do you have any close relatives/friends who are lawyers

• Were you aiming to become a barrister or solicitor

• Should the requirement for pupillage be kept

• Should the entry to pupillage (to qualify) be determined via a unified assessment or via interview

• Should the requirement for training contract be kept

• Should the entry to training contract (to qualify) be determined via a unified assessment or via interview

• Which was the main barrier to you becoming a lawyer, and why was that the main barrier?

• How can this barrier be eliminated?