Legal Aid Fees

Once again there is a spotlight today on the legal aid fees on a few number of high profile cases.

This gives rather a wrong impression as for many bread and butter cases where lawyers involved fees have now gone so low, that no lawyer of any worth ever wants to do them!

I should know as my wife has several times come home after a tiring journey to Lincoln or Luton for a family case and perhaps a fee that after her expenses is probably less than three figures. And moan about it something rotten! It probably doesn't bother her that much as she does do bigger private cases, where the fees are more in line with her nearly thirty years experience!

But we can push the fees down too far!

Consider that now young lawyers do not want to do legal-aid cases as they can't afford to these days with all of the costs of University and training. So those that do are often quite frankly crap! That's another of her complaints, that often she spends more time in court than is really needed because of incompetent lawyers! Or even worse incompetent litigants in person!

It is said that more money will be put towards family cases. But then the usual caveat must be attached to all promises of this lying government.

If not, then there will be fewer and fewer competent lawyers who will want to handle these sort of cases. Remember too, that many who do now are in their fifties and would hope to retire soon. (Not necessarily all will, as this government has shafted pensions!)

So we'll end up with a lot more inadequate solutions for families, a lot more badly brought up and treated children, more child poverty, more domestic violence etc. etc.

But then this government only cares about its friends.