Cuts to legal aid ‘will punish asylum-seekers’
August 18, 2010 by Webmaster
By Paddy McGuffin
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) has announced it is to reduce the number of firms able to offer social, welfare and family legal aid from about 2,400 to 1,300.
The LSC said its aim was to “improve current services wherever possible.”
But Refugee Council chief executive Donna Covey said the move was “unacceptable.”
She said: “Slashing funding for legal aid and restricting the number of law firms that can provide it means asylum-seekers will either be forced to pay for legal services themselves or, more likely, to go without.
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