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Liberty: Cuts are a slap in the face to families
Politics.co.uk Staff
22 June 2011, 12:00am
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, accuses MPs of double standards over legal aid:
"The government says we are all in this together – but how many MPs would choose to go to court without a lawyer if their partner denied them access to their child? Is it right that only criminal defendants and professional footballers should get legal advice?
"Politicians have spent years wagging their fingers at 'fat cat lawyers' but today's slap in the face goes to ordinary families, children and the disabled."
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