Submitted on Monday 13th February 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal aid should only be granted to prisoners for criminal or Human Rights proceedings
The public purse should not fund prisoner's Legal Aid for any matter other than proceedings for a criminal matter.
As an example: There is rapist currently serving time in a UK prison who has been granted legal aid to ask a court for him to have access to his children by way of prison visits - even though his victim is his ex-wife, the mother of his children.
This case - a case that is being processed currently - would not qualify for legal aid because it is a Family Law matter, and therefore the funding should not be permitted.
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