Free legal advice, because your rights matter.
Free legal advice, because your rights matter.
Councils across the country are passing motions showing support for Justice for All & legal aid.
Here are some examples from around the country. Why not ask your local councillors to do the same? Let us know if your local authority has pledged support for free legal advice.
“Notes with concern the Government’s legal aid reforms, which would remove access to free legal advice for an estimated 650,000 individuals a year, at a time when they most need it;
(additional text on impact of the proposals)
The Council
- resolves to support the Justice for All campaign for free legal advice, which aims to ensure everyone is treated fairly under the law, and to sign up to this campaign.
- agrees to send a copy of this Motion to the Secretary of State for Justice, the Home Secretary, the Minister for Women and Equalities, the Deputy Prime Minister and all local MPs, urging them to support free legal advice.”
Full motion text Scroll down to point 18
"To recommend that the council take the following action namely to write to the Ministry of Justice that whilst the council recognise the need to address the national budget deficit it considers that the proposed cuts in legal aid will adversely affect the most disadvantaged members of society and that consequently the proposals should be modified."
Full meeting See point 55.
“This Council strongly supports the rights of its Citizens to receive legal advice, irrespective of their financial circumstances... The City Council will therefore: Continue to lobby Government over the Government’s legal aid reforms; Support the Justice for All campaign; Explore the limited ways in which it can support the Nottingham Law Centre in the future; Find ways in which this city can ensure that its most vulnerable citizens have access to legal advice”
Full Meeting
“This Council resolves:
To oppose the proposed cuts to legal aid
To support the Justice for All campaign
To urge the Government to reconsider its proposals by writing to the Minister for Justice outlining the impact the cuts in legal aid would have in Hastings & St Leonards”
Full Meeting
“We believe the cut will leave thousands of vulnerable households and people on low incomes without access to legal advice to deal with life-changing problems.”
Full Meeting
"This Council supports the Justice for All campaign and believes proposed
Government cuts will seriously curtail the access to Justice in the field of social
welfare for Coventry people.
Full Meeting
“commits to all possible steps to support the local advice sector, which has established itself as providing excellent service for the citizens of Sheffield; therefore resolves to support the Justice for All campaign for free legal advice, which aims to ensure everyone is treated fairly under the law, and directs the Chief Executive to sign up this Council to the campaign;”
Full Meeting
“Believes that access to justice is a right that should be available to all and, ensuring that individuals are not excluded from the courts system due to lack of finance was deemed fundamental to ensuring the principles of equality before the law when it was created in 1949. Supports the Justice for All campaign and asks the Government to think again and talk to advice agencies in inner city areas.”
"Harlow Council understands the concerns about access to justice
proposed by “legal aid” reforms and supports the Justice for All campaign which wishes to ensure the retention of “legal aid” in the interests of the most vulnerable people in the community."
