New research by specialist lawyers Bolt Burdon Kemp, has uncovered the key issues that are preventing people in the UK from getting proper access to legal services, with findings suggesting that:
Only 27%of the British population was eligible for legal aid in 2007. Further cuts since then have exacerbated that number.
The regions that have had the highest legal aid expenditure across the years include London, Yorkshire and the Humber, North West England and the West Midlands.
72% oflegal aid clientsare from BAME backgrounds; they’ll be the worst affected if legal aid cuts continue.
46%of the British publicdon’t understand the legal aid system or how to get support and 51% say there are too many barriers to legal aid funding.
A decade without review: Inequality in the legal aid system
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