The Legal Aid Board is encouraging families across Ireland to use the Christmas period to have conversations with loved ones about decision-making as they grow older and face changing health needs. New plain-English videos and guides have been launched as part of a national awareness campaign called
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The Legal Aid Board recorded a 15 per cent increase in applicants accessing civil legal aid services from law centres last year, according to its latest annual report. There were 28,050 civil legal aid applicants in 2024, with 11,689 of them relating to international protection applications —
Jim O'Callaghan was recently welcomed by the Legal Aid Board to its law centre in Smithfield.
The Legal Aid Board welcomed senior legal figures including the attorney general, the justice minister and the chief justice to a two-day staff event in Dublin.
The Legal Aid Board welcomed justice minister Jim O'Callaghan and minister for children, disability and equality Norma Foley to its Tralee Law Centre.
The Legal Aid Board welcomed junior minister Niall Collins to its Limerick Law and Family Mediation Centre for a tour on Friday. Mr Collins, the Limerick County TD appointed earlier this year as minister of state in the Department of Justice, met with staff and was given an overview of the vital leg
The Legal Aid Board has opened a new law and family mediation centre in Castlebar. The new centre in Cavendish House brings the former law centre and family mediation office under one roof and is expected to assist more than 1,000 people in its first year of operation.
The Legal Aid Board has established a nationwide legal and mediation information helpline in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The helpline, at 1890 615 200, provides information to callers on civil legal aid and family mediation services and basic legal information.
The family justice system in Ireland is "at a crisis point" with reform frustrated by poor facilities, ineffective use of funding and an overly-adversarial approach to cases, the Legal Aid Board’s annual conference has heard. This year’s event, titled ‘Change is coming - Reform of
The progress of reforms to the family justice system will be the focus of the Legal Aid Board's 2019 annual conference next week. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will open the conference, which will hear from members of the judiciary on potential improvements to the family justice system, as well

