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Top lawyer: Legal aid cuts ‘crippling’ justice system
DRACONIAN curbs on access to legal aid have had a “crippling effect” on the British justice system, the chairman of the Bar Council warned yesterday.
Alistair MacDonald QC, who heads the barristers representation organisation, said the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act had left civil courts struggling.
His comments, made in legal magazine Counsel, coincided with concerns raised by the most senior family court judge in England and Wales earlier this week.
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