Letters - 15 July 2011

From legal aid to Fairmined gold

Legal aid

Thanks to Alan Bean for his lucid and powerful article on changes to the legal aid system (8 July). Friends are rightly concerned about the effects of many of the proposed government spending cuts; but Alan helps me to see that this one has a unique character, being an attack on the fundamental principle of everyone’s equality before the law.

John Lampen

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