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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

However, we are concerned here not with the expenditure of public funds but with a fair allocation of risks as between the defendant and the claimant. With respect, I do not understand the noble Lord’s point in relation to that. Is it really right that the interests of this group of claimants should depend upon the Government’s inability to predict how lawyers are going to behave? Surely this should not depend on how lawyers behave.

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Reference

734 c1434 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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