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Post by Denise on Jul 12, 2011 8:42:02 GMT
Taxpayers are funding almost £70,000 a day on legal aid for prisoners after a 25-fold increase in the last decade The massive rise in criminals taking legal action at the public’s expense was last night blamed on the introduction of the human rights act which has fuelled a flood of cases. A total of £25.2 million was paid out in legal aid to inmates last year to fund a whole range of disputes from treatment and discipline to sentencing and parole board issues. The Ministry of Justice last night said it was not possible to detail how many of the cases were related to human rights. However, the bill has risen sharply year on year since the Human Rights Act came in to force in 2000 and is now more than 25 times the £1 million paid out in 2001/02. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8621229/Human-rights-blamed-for-sharp-rise-in-prisoner-legal-aid.html
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