วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 8 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2555

No, Lord McNally, it is not time to move on from legal aid cuts

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disastrous cuts nearly half a million poor people annually. There is more to do to make these cuts at all acceptable

Last week, Lord McNally at a conference with legal practitioners Group that "the time has come to move LASPO." He was referring to the condemnation of legal aid and Prevention of offenders in 2012. Courts candidates LASPO the scope and eligibility will come into force in April next year, a reduction of the remuneration of lawyers began and there are more to come. McNally is tired of people still whingeing about cuts that are, as regards the ministers, and made dust.

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McNally moved. Government policy on legal aid now amounts essentially to a target. The lower level of service delivery that meets our minimum obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights at the lowest cost

LASPO We can not move until ministers have absorbed the magnitude of the reductions are carried out. They are so large that they require a reformulation of policy. It will not be easy. There will be no magic solution, which occurs as a rabbit from a hat. We do not keep a bold proposal. The answer must be a completely different approach.

legal needs a more coherent policy objective. And this must be something more than a bland version of the widely used to provide "access to justice". This phrase has become totally degraded. After all, Ken Clarke, said: "The mark of a civilized society", even when implemented large reductions. The fundamental objective of the security policy must be someone in society, rich or poor, has the right to expect that any dispute is resolved legal basis only and not by intrinsic emission outside of the different resources of the parties.

We call that equal justice under the law. This may seem vaguely familiar to those who have traveled to the United States. This is more or less what is recorded on the architrave of the building of the U.S. Supreme Court. The announcement of "equal justice under the law." This is a perfect fit for all the United States is certainly a good example of its implementation. But that does not invalidate such a major policy objective. States to include U.S. Supreme Court itself in the case of Griffin v. Illinois, "there can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." real access to justice ministers approach taxed to the limit and beyond. That is why Lord McNally not allowed to go too fast. We need this kind of holistic approach to policy is appreciated but not followed. Now we can not avoid entering a difficult nettle. Our task is to maximize what we can get for the amount of money we spend for justice - including, but not limited to legal aid. As a very practical matter, it is probably not possible under our current governance arrangements. We need a department and a budget.

access to justice approach will be based on substantive law thanks to the availability of information and stop funding lawyers - and not vice versa. Therefore, we will ensure that everyone has access to a legal version of NHS Direct. We are not able to pay board, but we could provide.

So no, Lord McNally. It is time to move LASPO. We know that implementing the cuts that are seen as disastrous for about half a million poor people annually. There is more to do to achieve these cuts at all acceptable.


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