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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda While British Justice Secretary Ken Clarke earlier defended amendments to the Legal Aid Bill and regarded them as a matter of “common sense” that do not restrict access to justice, peers voted to require legal aid protection for victims of domestic abuse in order to make it available for everyone to have “access to legal services that effectively meet their needs”.
Des Hudson, the head of the Law Society, slammed the plans for depriving “the poorest and weakest” of seeking legal redress.
Shadow Justice Minister Lord Bach also insisted that there is a “strong sentiment” across all three parties in the House of Lords that the bill is “unconstitutional, heartless and economically unsound.”
Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan MP condemned the “cuts” and described the legal aid as an “investment against greater costs down the line.”
Furthermore, former Attorney General Patricia Janet, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, warned that the Tory-led government’s changes “risk turning the clock back by at least a decade and placing a number of victims at unacceptable risk”.
Criticizing the UK government’s legal aid cuts for leading to a rise in deaths and assaults against women and children, she said, “We saved money and we saved lives, and in 13 years of government, the Lib Dems and Tories never made domestic violence a political football. It is extraordinary that the same people are now pretending that they don’t know what damage this will do. Even if the Government doesn’t give a stuff about the victims and the dangers to children, if they just think about the money, these changes do not make fiscal sense.”
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