Ten years after LASPO—what’s the damage? In his column in this week’s NLJ, Jon Robins, vice chair of the Legal Action Group, assesses the state of access to justice in England and Wales, and finds it wanting.
This is particularly true for Wales, where the whole of Wales apart from the very south and one practitioner in the north is ‘now devoid of publicly-funded help’.
Robins tracks the impact of the cuts, which have been devastating; driving legal aid lawyers out of the sector and leaving large gaps in provision where people with a clear need are simply unable to obtain legal advice, losing homes or employment or suffering some other injustice as a result.
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