Counsel Magazine

PARLIAMENT played host to a high-level meeting on the impact of the Legal Services Commission’s proposed cuts to family legal aid on vulnerable children on 12 May 2009.

Chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss and Baroness Walmsley, the meeting gathered together Parliamentarians, family barristers and children’s charities, and examined the way in which some of the most vulnerable children and families will be put at risk by the cuts to the legal aid budget for family cases, which are due to be implemented later this year.