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Cash injection not a long term fix for legal aid

Tue Feb 24 2015

Bar Association President Jane Needham SC has warned that the injection of Commonwealth legal aid funding, announced yesterday by Attorney General George Brandis, was "not enough to enable long-term access to justice to the people of NSW". Speaking to Lawyers Weekly, Ms Needham argued that it was a "false economy" to cut legal aid on one end while covering the costs of longer trials in civil cases and longer incarcerations when bail is not granted in criminal cases. Learn more here.

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