In this increasingly complex world where laws are almost always more complicated, particularly to a non-lawyer, you need to give people access to legal advice, you need to give people access to courts with a lawyer to represent them. It’s almost disgraceful to give them human rights and then not give them the ability to enforce those rights. Rights aren't meaningful unless they can be enforced.
Neuberger said legal aid needed to be better funded again after cuts by successive governments, the deepest of which were implemented by the Conservative-led coalition. Providing more free legal advice also had the potential to save money by preventing so many cases from coming to court.
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