Legal aid cuts deny parents their human rights, says ex-supreme court president
Exclusive: David Neuberger believes lack of access to state-funded lawyers for family disputes is ‘wrong in principle’
The former president of the supreme court has said parents are being deprived of their human rights by having to fight for contact with their children without lawyers.
David Neuberger said legal aid cuts to family cases were an affront to human rights and that “taking away legal aid from family disputes is wrong in principle”.
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