Legal cuts

Published: 16 September, 2010

• THERE needs to be recognition of the work of organisations like Refugee and Migrant Justice, which was allowed to go into administration in June.

Law centres and other human rights lawyers are struggling to carry out their work because of funding cuts to the Legal Aid system which is paying in excess for judges’ mistakes in refusing asylum to those who deserve it so that repeated appeals have to be made at public cost. 

Lawyers’ time is wasted and health deteriorates because of deserving cases being refused. Legal Aid must not be on a fixed-fee system but paid at the point of delivery.
Ruth Appleton 
Co-ordinator, Santé Refugee Mental Health Access Project,
Lissenden Gardens, NW5