Legal Aid
The government has announced that it is to restrict the availability of legal aid for certain kinds of case.
This not only represents the latest attack on the poor by a Government of millionaires but also prejudices the Article 6 rights of those of limited means to achieve a fair hearing.
Campaign now to oppose the cuts in Legal Aid
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Naomi
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These cuts must not be made, the government is meant to protect people, not make them more vulnerable.
Justice will not be justice anymore if you have to be of certain background to afford it. -
Rebecca Hamilton
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These cuts must not be made, the government is meant to protect people, not make them more vulnerable.
Justice will not be justice anymore if you have to be of certain background to afford it. -
Anya-Nicola Darr commented
While the rich pay thousands for super injuntions the poor are left with no representation..some things not right or fair here!
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Sinfi Jones
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If there wasnt a need there would be no need to restict the availability.
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Jan
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You have to be practically starving on the street on order to get Legal Aid anyway, so a further cut would make so many people unable to ensure they get a fair hearing and a chance to defend themselves properly. Maybe also a sub-campaign should be to try and persuade lawyers to charge less than about £250 an hour!
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Christl Hughes
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I support the Law Society Campaign.
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Sue Barr
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More should be done to tackle the expenses claimed by the great and the good at the MOJ rather than attack the poor and the vulnerable. It is a false economy to withdraw legal help for the poor and I urge everyone affected to press the point at every opportunity to everyone and anyone in a position to change the Govt's mind as it appears is the case with the NHS.
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mr. sim ilyas
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The very concept of justice is impacted by the proposed restrictions. When citizens rights are at risk fiscal savings and austerity measures cannot be justified. Ever.
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Gillie Sharp
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Access to Justice is a right in a civilised society.
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Kathryn Burgess
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Justice for All, not just if you can pay! These cuts attack the central tenet of a fair society. Legal Aid is vital in enabling the poorest, less able and most marginalised to access justice and seek recourse through the provision of specialist legal advice.
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Mark Batten
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Cuts to legal aid will result in the closure of advice centres, law centres and citizen advice bureaus. Hardworking families including lone parents will be hardest hit. Access to civil legal aid has already been severely restricted over the last few years. This is the death knell for civil legal aid.
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Alison Alexander
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Justice for All - no legal aid - no justice!!!! I oppose the legal aid cuts
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Alex
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To cut legal aid is to cut the very essence of fair access to justice in our society.
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Linda Wray
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Legal Aid is vital to allow those poorest and less able, to seek justice for themsleves with the help of specialist advice.
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Peter Green
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There is a statutory obligation on the courts, and all others who work with children, to work together and to give children's interests paramouncy.
As a principle, and of particular relevance when all public services, including Legal Aid for Family Courts, are the subject of significant financial cuts, why isn’t Government itself required to make children’s interests paramount?
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Sally Everett
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I oppose the cuts in Legal Aid
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Vicky Ling
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The government and most of the press will spin these cuts as a way of reducing expenditure on 'fat cat' lawyers. In fact many legal aid lawyers in the private and not for profit sectors struggle to make the fees cover the services they provide.
Legal aid helps many thousands of vulnerable and poor people protect and exercise their legal rights in relation to housing, debt and family life. A civilised society needs to give people a voice in the justice system.
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Rachael Maskell
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Damaging changes to civil legal aid are about to be announced in the Government's justice bill. It is essential that 38 Degrees campaigns on this issue, as 100,000s of people will be denied access to justice if these reforms go through. A strong campaign could well reverse these draconian proposals.
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Sulaiman Baul
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Justice is what stand between the vulnerable and the powerful in a democratic and civilise state like Britain. That is why there is the need to fight tooth and nail to make the case for legal aid to fight and protect the vulnerable.
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DES Hudson
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If the Rule of Law is to be effective and more than a aspiration then access to justice and representation by independent lawyers must also exist. It is in this way that the Government's proposals for both legal aid and changes to civil litigation poses such damaging threat to the rule of law and the ideal of access to justice irrespective of means.
