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Response: Legal Aid Bill evidence submission

By: Anne Baxendale
Published: July 2011

Shelter evidence subission for Legal Aid Bill committee

The Government has argued that the UK legal aid system is comparatively expensive in relation to other countries, but this is extremely misleading. As the Justice Select Committee and the Council of Europe have said, when all judicial costs are taken into account England and Wales are about equal to the European average.