Andy Slaughter MP, Shadow Justice Minister, commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report into the Government’s Civil Legal Aid reforms,  said: 

“This is the most damning attack on the Coalition’s civil legal aid policy yet. It exposes the shambolic way Ministers went about their reforms, and their utter lack of understanding of how the changes would leave access to justice the preserve of the rich and our courts clogged full of litigants in person. 

“Despite being warned that victims of domestic violence would struggle demonstrating their eligibility for legal aid after the Government’s reforms they went ahead with them anyway, leaving many without any legal support whatsoever. Despite the enormous hardship these reforms have caused, Ministers still have no plans, or inclination, to do anything about alleviating the damaging impact of their reforms on our justice system”