Parliament has now rejected the voting rights of prisoners.
So which one of our lame-duck leaders is going to tell the legal eagles that clients who make a claim under the Human Rights Act will not be Legal Aid? And that the claims will work on a no-win, no-fee basis and that, regardless of European law, the British Government will not pay out one penny in compensation to anyone?
TJ Ryder, Priory Gardens, North Lane, Dringhouses, York.
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