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April 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to a Child rights group JustRights analysis of the British government’s data obtained from a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, 6,000 children, or 13% of those who receive help with legal-aid costs, will lose it due to the coalition’s reforms, aimed to abolish legal aid for welfare and benefit cases.
The bill being part of the UK Ministry of Justice’s budget cuts by £350m, is criticized for hitting hard women victims of domestic violence, disabled people and children especially migrant ones.
Rejecting the Tory-led government’s claims that the legal aid will remain for almost all children’s cases, JustRights co-chairman James Kenrick said, “When you look at the number of cases they will be cutting, it’s 13% of cases.”
“We are talking about the most vulnerable children. A lot of them will be 15 and 16, who may be care leavers or in a lot of instances will be living away from their parents,” Kenrick added.
However, being under intense pressure from children’s charities and women’s groups, the British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke defended the bill, saying, it “protects spending for the great majority of cases where a child is a party, maintaining around 96% of our current spend.”
Meanwhile, Citizens Advice charity slammed the bill for putting tens of thousands of people at greater risk of homelessness and poverty without funding for their advisers.
Moreover, raising concerns over legal aid cuts planned to be implemented “at a time of unprecedented changes to welfare support,” Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope warned, “This could result in a ticking time bomb of poorly prepared and lengthy tribunals and appeals, choking the courts and not saving money, but actually costing the government far more in the long term.”
Swansea East MP Sian James also called on the British government to accept amendments made by peers in the House of Lords to the Legal aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill.
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