Michael Burdett

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    Denied assistance

    2009-04-23T00:00:00

    Roger Smith is right to underline the need for effective representation in police stations at a time when that service is being seriously undermined by the extension of the Defence Solicitor Call Centre and CDS Direct to own-solicitor cases. I claim to be one of the founders of the ...

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    CDS Direct unbalances the scales of justice

    2009-02-19T00:00:00

    The feature ‘Dial J for Justice’ (see [2009] Gazette, 5 February, 10) demonstrates how the Legal Services Commission is collaborating with the government to reduce substantially, if not extinguish, access to justice through legal aid. My own experience is apt.