Ealing & Hounslow Acupuncture has committed to donating 5% of all treatment fees taken in May to ATLEU. 

The government’s controversial proposal to introduce a residence test for access to legal aid was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court on Monday 18 April.

ATLEU and seven other agencies are calling on MPs to support an amendment that grants domestic workers the right to work and extend their leave for up to two and a half years.

The government has agreed to conduct an urgent review of legal aid provision for victims of modern slavery and trafficking who want to bring court claims against their traffickers. This is following the judicial review brought by ATLEU.

James Ewins’ independent review of the Overseas Domestic Worker visa, published in December 2015, calls for an end to the current system which ties workers to their employers. 

ATLEU are recruiting volunteers to support our casework and our clients.  We are at the forefront of the vital and fast-moving area of trafficking, bringing high profile strategic challenges that shape the way the law develop.

An ATLEU client has finally received over £300,000 in compensation from her former traffickers after years of battling them in the British courts. 

Statistics from the Ministry of Justice reveal a 90% fall in the number of not-for-profit legal aid providers within a year of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 coming into effect.

James Ewins’ independent review of the Overseas Domestic Worker visa released today calls for an end to the current system which ties workers to their employers. 

The Modern Slavery Act does nothing to address the tying of migrant domestic workers to their employer because of immigration rules; a system which has repeatedly been evidenced to facilitate their abuse. 

The area of law which involves protection of the person can routinely subject lawyers and legal representatives to secondary trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue.

In September 2013, government proposed that anyone with uncertain or no immigration status within the previous year, or anyone not living here in the last 12 months, would be ineligible for legal aid.