Provision Of Legal Aid In Scotland

EDM number 1387 in 1993-94, proposed by Ray Michie on 23/06/1994.

That this House expresses its deep misgivings at the Scottish Office's decision to undertake yet another review of the provision of legal aid in Scotland; believes that this further review is merely a pretext by the Scottish Office to impose further sweeping cuts in legal aid at the behest of the Treasury and to reduce access to justice for tens of thousands of people in Scotland; considers that there are no grounds whatever for privatising the Scottish Legal Aid Board, which is generally regarded as performing well within the the constraints imposed by government funding; notes that there have already been two major government reviews of legal aid in the last three years, one of which is still ongoing; and urges Her Majesty's Government to abandon its attempts to undermine still further state funded legal aid in Scotland.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.