In The Press
Legal Aid Funding Reduction Need Not Spell Disaster (27 November 2010)
Date: 27/11/2010
The whole country waited in trepidation for the Treasury’s comprehensive public spending review and none more so than those of us working in legal aid. It made no difference that this frontline service, costing little more than 0.3 per cent of all public expenditure, already delivers exceptional value; or that in the past five years, the number of people helped by the legal aid scheme nearly doubled whilst funding for it hardly changed.