Around 3.5 million people live in local authorities with no active provider of civil legal aid, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
A scathing Public Accounts Committee report has criticised the Ministry of Justice for significant contract management failings after it emerged the MoJ was spending £4m a year on an empty prison...
The rule of law could be seriously under threat unless the government invests in the criminal justice system now, says the FDA union’s Steven Littlewood.
On 1 April 2013 the government brought in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which meant hundreds of thousands of people eligibe for legal aid became ineligible....
