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What if Legal Aid was as protected and beloved as the National Health Service (NHS)? What if the funding cuts to Legal Aid which took place in the early 2010s after the financial crisis hadn’t happened? What if the new Hillsborough Law, which will come into force under soon-to-be prime minister Andy Burnham, really does introduce the biggest expansion of Legal Aid in a decade?
If the answer to any of these questions were “yes”, then, perhaps, Salma wouldn’t be sitting with a volunteer solicitor on a Sunday morning trying to avoid going to court.
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