Suspicious minds or stifling bureaucracy? Whatever the reasons for the Legal Aid Agency’s lack of trust in providers, the end result is often dire for those denied access to justice
’All too often the legal aid’s administrative body is a barrier to justice rather than its enabler,’ Dr Jon Robins, editor of The Justice Gap, writes in this week’s NLJ.
He laments the ‘unhealthily adversarial approach’ taken by the LAA and chronicles the struggles of Terryann Samuels, single mother of four young children, wrongly declared intentionally homeless and served an eviction order, but repeatedly refused legal aid to fight her case.
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