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Britain’s most senior judge, Lord Neuberger has opposed and raised concerns regarding government’s plans on legal aid funding cuts.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced further savings plans of £2bn bill to restrict legal aid in England and Wales in a range of civil cases from April.
The Ministry of Justice has told legal aid would still be provided “to those who most need it”.
The cuts mean people involved in civil disputes, such as social welfare debt, employment, family problems, clinical negligence, divorce and housing problems will no longer be allowed an access to legal aid. But funding will continue to support the cases including family law involving domestic violence or forced marriage and debt and housing matters where someone’s home is at immediate risk.
It will make many people to pay privately for advice, find charitable help or represent themselves in trying to solve their disputes.
The proposals are aimed to cut the legal aid bill by £350m a year by 2015.
President of Supreme Court has warned the government of destroying a 700-year-old right of access to fair and open justice to all as he said: “My worry is the removal of legal aid for people to get advice about law and get representation in court will start to undermine the rule of law because people will feel like the government isn’t giving them access to justice in all sorts of cases.
“And that will either lead to frustration and lack of confidence in the system, or it will lead to people taking the law into their own hands.”
He has also told that the cuts would ultimately lead to an increase in the number of people who represent themselves in court because they could not either have the funds or get legal aid for a lawyer.
And then the people forced to represent themselves will consume more court time, offsetting the financial savings brought by cuts.
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