This substance of this admission will be of no surprise to Legal Aid lawyers – though that it has even been made more so.
We watched as successive Labour Lord Chancellors and Legal Aid ministers did the ideological spadework which lead to the years of “fat cat lawyers” living it up in the “most expensive legal aid system in the world”; that’s right the dismantlement of civil legal aid and the near destruction of criminal scheme.
We will all have our least favourite parliamentary contributors, and whilst Grayling is likely to be a near unanimous head of this list, there are labour participants close to the top too.
Bach’s positive comments on Corbyn are perhaps the most surprising of the lot, and lets wish him well with:
“It is about time a major political party looked hard on what a principled policy on access to justice should look like in a country that prides itself on the rule of law”.
