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Tens of thousands of domestic abuse survivors have been forced to continue living under the shadow of their abusers in the decade since access to legal aid was scaled back, research suggests.About 34,000 people are estimated to have been denied support allowing them to seek orders to h
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l.The House of Commons library also calculated that since the law was changed 10 years ago, the proportion of domestic abuse cases funded by legal aid had fallen from 75% to 47%.Emily Thornberry, Labours shadow attorney general, blamed the wilful cruelty of the coalition government, which she said had been perpetuated by their successors in the current cabinet .Recorded sex crimes reach record high in England and WalesRead moreShe added that urgent reform of the legal aid system was needed to avoid a second lost decade for the survivor
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s of domestic abuse and their children .The Legal Aid, Sentencing, and Punishment of Offenders Act was introduced in May 2012 and sought to impose capital and income limits for applicants for civil legal aid.On the 10th anniversary of the legislation coming into effect, the Commons library was asked to review the impact. It found that real-terms spending on civil legal aid for domestic abuse cases had fallen by 37% from 2010-11 to 2020-21.Officials said it was not possible to say exactly how many people have become ineligible who would otherwise have been able . But they found t Wsrx Kim Dotcom sees off US attempt to have him remanded in custody
A man who was hailed a hero for calling for peace after his son was killed during the 2011 riots has said that police incompetence let the killers walk free.Tariq Jahan said he had been left devastated and would continue his fight for justice after an official report accused police of being reckless but said no officer would be disciplined.Eight men accused of murdering Jahan s son and two other men during riots in Birmingham were acquitted in 2012. The lead police investigator was accused by the trial judge of lying under oath, sparking an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.The IPCC said one officer who it said had promised witnesses immunity from prosecution in return for their testimony had a case to answer for gross misconduct and had been reckless. But it said the officer, DI Khalid Kiyani, had retired from the police service and could no longer face disciplinary proceedings.During the trial, Kiyani said his boss, DCI Anthony Tagg, had approved of the offer of immunity, but Tagg denied this. Ta
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IPCC said Tagg had no case to answer. This investigation did not find any intent to deceive on the part of DCI Tagg in respect of his evidence provided at crown court, it said.Brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, and their friend Haroon Jahan, 21, were killed as they guarded their businesses in Winson Green, Birmingham, during riots tha
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