Jo Hynes

Access to Justice and the need for civil legal aid reform in Scotland, Policy Insights, University of Glasgow, Centre for Public Policy, Dr jo Hynes, Fiona McPhail, Jack Smith

NEW Policy Insights: Access to Justice and the need for Civil Legal Aid Reform in Scotland 💡⚖️

Read recommendations from @glasgow.ac.uk experts @johynes.bsky.social, Fiona McPhail, and Jack Smith on how legal aid should be reformed to strengthen access to justice.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.

Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.

eprints.gla.ac.uk/361308/1/361...

📄 We, along with Together with Migrant Children (@twmcuk.bsky.social) and Public Law Project (@publiclawproject.bsky.social), were pleased to launch the report 'Experiences of Accessing Education in Asylum Accommodation', following a six-month research project funded by ILPA’s Strategic Legal Fund.

Legal aid and the future of access to justice Published in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (Ahead of Print, 2025)

things have got even worse since the legal aid census, with at least 57% of new asylum applicants now unable to access a legal aid lawyer, and housing providers withdrawing from the sector.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper uses geographical theorisations of space to make sense of digital developments in court space. It proposes that the introduction of remote platforms generates three spatial ruptures in cou....

New #OA paper in TIBG:

'Physical and virtual spaces across a continuum of remoteness: Exploring spatial ruptures in remote court hearings' by Jo Hynes

This paper engages with digital developments in court space through ethnographic research into UK immigration bail hearings
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Just published:Public Law Project's brilliant new report on a research project monitoring real capacity for asylum legal aid providers to take on work remotely from South West advice desert. Spoiler: turns out there was v little real capacity, esp for appeals! publiclawproject.org.uk/content/uplo...