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NLJ this week: Post-2010 and the damage done to the criminal justice system

12 November 2021
Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal aid focus
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Could the government have used the pandemic as cover for attacks on trial by jury or even the criminal justice system as a whole?

Writing in NLJ this week, Jon Robins takes a look at legal academic Hannah Quirk’s essay, Shock therapy and the criminal justice casualties of COVID-19.

Robins looks at the damage done to the justice system since 2010, as itemised by Dr Quirk, and laments the legacy of the government’s austerity policy. He calls for the reinstatement of legal aid provision lost over the years. 

Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal aid focus
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