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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2011 PDF Print E-mail

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill has been published. Among other things, this Bill intends to save £350 million a year by 2015 for legal-aid funding. To do this, as the disability-rights organisation Disability Alliance has highlighted, it proposes removing legal aid from cases concerning employment, housing (except in cases involving homelessness or risk to health and safety), debt (except in cases relating to certain proceedings where the home is at risk), and welfare benefits.

 
For further information, visit the Ministry of Justice website
www.justice.gov.uk/news/press-releases/moj/mojnewsrelease210611.htm
 
For the Disability Alliance analysis of the Bill, visit the Disability Alliance website