Letter
Another New Iniquity
12 September 2013
Stephen Sedley, in his piece on the British constitution, mentions some of the proposals put forward by the Ministry of Justice in its consultation ‘Transforming Legal Aid’ (LRB, 12 September). The main part of the consultation dealt with criminal defence and proposed that clients have no choice of solicitor; that the number of firms holding legal aid contracts be reduced from 1600 to 400; and...
