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"Vulnerable people who did not have friends or family to represent them" are only a small minority of " those who are least able to defend themselves"; the majority are children.
As I have said before, I was incredulous when, long ago, I discovered that our judge-made law had left children in the Victorian era, chattels of their parents, with no independent right of access to justice. Children in dispute with their parents were left dependent on those parents to provide independent representation for their child to pursue a case against them.
Children are humans and should enjoy the same ECHR protections as adults and to have no less ability to pursue through the Courts any denial of them as is available to the most egregious of convicted criminals.

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