Torture claimants are being let down by the government-funded legal service set up to help them, according to a human-rights campaign group and a lawyer who acted for fugitive Edward Snowden. They accuse the Duty Lawyer Service of a host of failings resulting in delays, frustration and the failure of their clients' applications - with one torture claimant revealing how the scheme has let him down. Cosmo Beatson, executive director of Vision First, said claimants had told him few lawyers bothered to research political conditions in their clients' country of origin. And barrister Robert Tibbo, a non-executive director of Vision First, said a four-day training course provided by the Law...
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