Access to Justice in the English Legal System
Access to Justice Legal aid was introduced after the Second World War to permit people who could not otherwise afford the services of lawyers to be provided with those services by the State.[1]The system and costs grew hugely over the decades and underwent various restrictions and cutbacks during the late 1990s.[2]Although there have been many high cost claims on the legal aid budget, the scale of the continued rise in spending is not the result of individual or collective wastefulness.[3] […]