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More evidence needed of the scale of meaningful legal aid provider capacity and community legal need
Worth a read, over on the LAG website:
Where has my justice gone? Current issues in access to justice in England and Wales, a new report by Dr Natalie Byrom, provides a helpful framework for mapping current issues in access to justice in England and Wales – but the real gold is in her identification of 47 data gaps and 80 evidence gaps ...
... without evidence of the scale of meaningful legal aid provider capacity and community legal need, there is a risk that ‘strategic ignorance’ is built into the legal aid system ...
More: More evidence needed ...