Ken Clarke increases the deficit

[jman]

LAG has summarised its key point on legal aid. An investment of £49 million ( the sum spent on legal help principally in social welfare cases) can save other government departments £286.2 million. Jonathan Djanogly and Ken Clarke are therefore increasing not cutting the deficit. This needs to be more widely appreciated.

Let's get those figures out there to the media, MP's and Lords. Won't post the article as the story is brief but link below


legalactiongroupnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/true-cost-of-legal-aid-cuts.html

[nickd]

Thanks Jman for posting this, this will make a very good article which we can build on. Back to work today so haven't had a chance to look at it properly; - but I will, oh yes!