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Three quarters or more of family legal aid clients would no longer get access to public funding if the legal aid bill goes through, a survey for Resolution has found.
A total of 267 lawyers took part in the survey. Of them 87 per cent said less than 25 per cent of their current legal aid clients would qualify after the cuts. A high proportion of their cases had been assessed as unsuitable for mediation – 41 per cent. The vast majority, 91 per cent, believed there was a risk of a child being abducted in at least some of their cases. A smaller majority, 57 per cent, believed that a parent risked losing contact with a child in at least half of their cases. Most said they would do less private family law work as a result of the cuts, but 31 per cent said they would also do less public work. |
