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Well, the chickens are coming home to roost ! All those New Labour judges must be regretting their slavish adoration for Tony and his mates who brought this all on us. The days of solicitors for the parents and social workers and guardian ad litems coming to an agreement at the gates of the court and presenting a fait accompli to the judiciary are gone. The judges now have to do "the heavy lifting". They jumped into "the purple lifeboat" for a relaxed and magisterial overview not to get their hands dirtied with solicitors work. I don't think this situation is tenable at all. Sooner or later a judge is going to find a way of appointing and paying solicitors out of state coffers to help LIPs and that will be much more expensive than legal aid.