COMMENT: The fourth right of citizenship

Consumer, Legal aid

By Jon Robins

10 October 2011 | 3:45 pm

By Jon Robins

10 October 2011 | 3:45 pm

COMMENT: The fourth right of citizenship

JAMES SANDBACH: No-one expects that Government can replicate a universal NHS style service when it comes to dealing with people’s financial and legal problems. But its retreat from funding civil legal aid could leave us all the poore. Read James’s blog here.

Author: Jon Robins

Jon is editor of the Justice Gap. He is a criminology lecturer at Brighton University and a freelance journalist. Books include Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021), Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Biteback, 2018), The First Miscarriage of Justice (Waterside Press, 2014), The Justice Gap (LAG, 2009) and People Power (Daily Telegraph/LawPack, 2008). Jon is twice winner of the Bar Council's journalism award and has won Halsbury Legal's journalism award

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COMMENT: The fourth right of citizenship

COMMENT: The fourth right of citizenship

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