Our fight for Legal Aid

What a fantastic week it’s been!  On Wednesday, the product of weeks of hard work by many people manifested itself in the largest demonstration against government cuts to legal aid that there has ever been.  The full article can be read here: http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/hundreds-attend-legal-aid-protest-rally.  It was followed in the afternoon by a thousand lawyers passing resolutions at The Friends meeting house unanimously rejecting price competitive tendering and any further cuts to legal aid.

Never has there been such unity of the whole legal profession.  Unfolding, are two very serious constitution issues; access to justice, choice and the right to a fair trial alongside the continued existence of an independent legal profession. 

The fight is on to defend these principles in our society. 

Thank you to the LCCSA

 

A little late,  but  heartfelt  thank you  to  the LCCSA  for conferring Honorary Life Membership.  It's a great  organisation which has excellent officers and committee members who work hard in a hostile environment  to promote the collective interests of Solicitors and Paralegals  working in  the London  Courts.   

 

What makes our work so important is that miscarriages of justice are more likely to be found in the everyday toil of the police station and Magistrates Court   and are also likely to slip by unnoticed without committed Defence  Lawyers and prosecutors with integrity.

 

For some great recent results  see  http://www.psplaw.co.uk/