How to Find Solicitors in Sevenoaks
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act received royal assent last week. The consequence of this will be that, in some very important areas such as housing and welfare benefits law, vulnerable members of society will find legal advice and representation in the courts, funded by legal aid, more difficult to obtain.
by Mary Greenhalgh, consultant solicitor at Grant Saw Solicitors LLP
It is obvious that future lawyers should speak and write clear, accurate and correct English.
‘I was a litigator before becoming an MP. I started in 1978,’ says Andrew Dismore, the former Labour MP who heads the Access to Justice Action Group. ‘Back then, a lot of people didn’t have the opportunity to bring their cases, pure and simple.’ There was the phenomenon known as the MINELAs or ‘middle income not eligible for legal aid’. He recalls: ‘All those people missed out on access to justice unless they had insurance, a trade union or somebody else willing to act for them.’
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