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Families in the UK that open their doors to child relatives fleeing the camps of Calais are being penalised by stringent rules on legal aid.
One of the least reported devastations caused by government legal aid cuts has been on asylum seekers. Vulnerable people seeking refuge in the UK are left destitute and homeless.
The government has committed to reviewing cuts to legal aid and the fight for justice and government accountability has just begun.
In the tsunami of austerity cuts, technology provides one of the few possible islands from which we can rebuild acceptable levels of assistance and, indeed, resistance.
Amnesty found that the recent sharp cuts to civil legal aid have hurt not only those people already in the most pain, but the integrity of the justice system itself.
Government plans to introduce a discriminatory test for legal aid were thwarted earlier this year. This is why that decision was right.
Should members of the public make up the access to justice deficit?
