What impact will the latest raft of legal aid cuts have on people fighting councils or who are wrongly accused of a crime? We ask former defendants, their families, lawyers and experts Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four outside the Old Bailey in October 1989 after serving 15 years in prison. He was a victim of one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice. Photograph: Haydn West/PA Mark Neary Won case against Hillingdon council detaining his autistic son in care The changes to legal aid mean people will have to represent themselves, but it's hard to fight on your own – the legislation can be impenetrable, you have the emotional pressure of the hearing and, as a layperson, you...
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