‘Good lawyers save money’: Supreme Court President weighs in on Legal Aid – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted June 20th, 2013 in costs, judges, judicial review, judiciary, legal aid, legal profession, news, speeches by sally

“According to the President of the Supreme Court, the judiciary not only has a right but an obligation ‘to speak out on matters concerning the rule of law.’ In recent months, it is a duty from which Lord Neuberger has not shirked, and last night’s lecture to the Institute of Government was no exception. Its focus was the importance of legal aid, which Neuberger described through the prism of the UK’s constitutional set-up and the respective roles of the legislature, executive and judiciary within it.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 19th June 2013

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