Comments on: No truck with legal aid reform http://www.redpepper.org.uk/no-truck-with-legal-aid-reform/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Kate B http://www.redpepper.org.uk/no-truck-with-legal-aid-reform/#comment-221129 Kate B Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:01:08 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=10564#comment-221129 Great article – there are lots of ways that the legal aid reforms will affect people, including the residence test, which will mean that people who are not living in the UK ‘legally’ or who cannot prove it, will not be able to access legal aid..

Please also sign this petition written by someone in immigration detention who fought against unlawful detention using legal aid and is now campaigning to make sure everyone has legal aid in the future.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/chris-grayling-secretary-of-state-for-justice-don-t-destroy-uk-justice-drop-your-legal-aid-proposals

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