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Austerity Continues For Justice

Austerity Continues For Justice

Any hope that rising concern about the state of the justice system would prompt an outbreak of Treasury generosity were dashed by the Budget. After a speech in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer made no mention of the subject, the Treasury's Budget Document revealed the departmental resource budget for the Ministry of Justice will shrink from £6.3bn in 2018/19 to £6bn in 2019/20.

President of the Law Society, Christina Blacklaws, said: The chancellor may have announced an extra £21.5m for the "wider justice system", it’s a drop in the ocean and doesn’t come close to the hundreds of millions cut from legal aid over the past five years.

Full coverage in the Gazette.