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NLJ this week: Duty solicitors give virtual advice

26 March 2021
Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Criminal , Profession
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Writing in this week’s NLJ, Jon Robins looks at the issue of duty police station solicitors advising their clients remotely

The right of a person to have a legal aid lawyer physically with them when detained or interviewed by the police was suspended last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, advice is given remotely.

Robins looks at the implications of this, and asks whether miscarriages of justice could occur as a result. 

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