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Labour conference: Legal aid cuts will ‘decimate’ social welfare legal system

Government cuts to the legal aid budget will lead to the “decimation” of the civil law system and cause huge problems for disabled people, Labour party members have heard.
The cuts are part of the government’s legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently at its committee stage in the Commons.
Steve Hynes, director [...]