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Previously on "Expenses MPs Devine, Chaytor and Morley get legal aid"
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Originally posted by original PM View Postgreat so the lazy unwashed scrotes who don't work and rob our houses while we are out at work will get legal aid and we will not...
is this another of Labours fairness changes?
ffs
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great so the lazy unwashed scrotes who don't work and rob our houses while we are out at work will get legal aid and we will not...
is this another of Labours fairness changes?
ffs
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostOn what basis are they eligible for state legal aid ? As former MP ?
This is changing in 2010. From January 2010 cases heard in the following courts may have to pay towards their defence costs.- Blackfriars
- Swansea
- Preston
- Bradford
- Norwich
From April 2010 this will extend to all Crown Courts in England and Wales.
In essence if you are under 18 or on Benefits you will pay nothing.
For others aid will be means tested and you will be expected to pay your defence costs if you have more than a certain level of residual income after living costs and family circumstances have been calculated.
If you residual income is less than £12,475 you will get free legal aid.
If you have more than £22,35 in residual income you will have to pay the full costs.
If you residual income is between those figures then your disposable income will be calculated.
Below £283 per month and you get free legal aid.
Above £283 per month and you will have to pay.
If you are found not guilty you will get back what you have paid, plus interest.
If you are found guilty and have more than £30,000 in capital or savings you may also have to contribute towards your defence costs from this.
If you need it you will have to apply for Legal aid in order to find out if you will get it for free or will have to pay.Last edited by DaveB; 13 April 2010, 13:40.
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On what basis are they eligible for state legal aid ? As former MP ?
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostGotta concede, AtW had a blinding idea the other month (Or it may have been me).
Fees paid to briefs should gradually decline over the duration of a case, for example 1% per day. That would give them a huge incentive to avoid spinning out cases (which as things stand they undoubtedly do).
Lawyer 1: How did you get on with that complete travesty of justice you were working on.
Lawyer 2: Pfft, it looked like it was going to go on for a fortnight so I sold the guy out. Think he got life in the end. From now on it's strictly guilty pleas for me. Kerching!
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Gotta concede, AtW had a blinding idea the other month (Or it may have been me).
Fees paid to briefs should gradually decline over the duration of a case, for example 1% per day. That would give them a huge incentive to avoid spinning out cases (which as things stand they undoubtedly do).
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostWTF are you all on about. They have as much right to public funding as anyone else. Christ we give that McKinnon idiot enough cash and people murdering, stealing, illegal immigrants...
Jeez get real....
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The thing is, they will get the money under the new rules too.
It's going to cost well in excess of £5 mil to drag these guys through court: and both sides appear to have teams of the countries most eye-wateringly expensive silks on the case.
I bet they all got together over dinner at one of the Inns and did Port challenges to decide who was going to be on what side.
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Originally posted by threaded View Post
Gordon Brown says they'll have to pay it back.
So it looks like they're going to get away with it.
In other words, they may have wanted to do it before, but now they want to do it even more.
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostThat's what I thought. That change in legal aid rules doesn't apply to the Westminster area yet. So they won't have to pay it back.
A handy nail for Labour's coffin?
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Originally posted by threaded View Post'Weasel words' is the phrase IIRC
A handy nail for Labour's coffin?
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Agree with Threaded ()
This will disappear under all the election news.
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostDid he say when?
We have actually abolished this free legal aid from the end of June, so it has to be means-tested and they wouldn’t have got it in these circumstances.
Clever use of tenses to give the impression of a firm past event when he's actually talking about a potential future one.
'Weasel words' is the phrase IIRC
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