Lord (Willy) Bach, the peer who led Labour’s opposition to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill in the House of Lords, stepped down last week as shadow legal aid minister, a couple of days before the measure received royal assent to become an act.
The former legal aid minister condemns the act, which seeks to save £350m a year by cutting legal aid scope and eligibility, as ‘outrageous legislation’ that will harm the ‘disabled, poor and vulnerable, and those least able to defend themselves’.
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