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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

This is not only about public funds, but it is about how you create—to use this term again—an architecture for this type of litigation that squeezes out from the system the inflation that went to the lawyers. That was identified by the Master of the Rolls, by the Lord Chief Justice and by Lord Justice Jackson. In trying to respond to that problem, I am fully aware of the hard cases, and I have spent most of the afternoon dealing with them. Of course hard cases are difficult to argue, but that is the central issue that we are trying to address. To succeed, we will have to stand firm against some of these hard cases, I am afraid.

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Reference

734 c1434 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Written questions
House of Lords
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