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Lawyers launch latest protest in legal aid fight

SOLICITORS will be swapping the bench for the streets today to protest once again against the cuts to legal aid following their three weeks of boycotts.

Thousands of Britain’s lawyers have been refusing to process new legal aid work since July 1 in defiance against the government’s second 8.75 per cent cut to fees.

Supporters of the Save Legal Aid campaign, including members of the Criminal Bar Association, will be demonstrating outside Westminster magistrates’ court this morning.

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