{"id":1213,"date":"2009-10-30T06:13:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T06:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-10-30T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T06:16:36","slug":"lord-chief-justice-warns-of-mayhem-over-lack-of-legal-aid-for-civil-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Lord Chief Justice warns of &#8216;mayhem&#8217; over lack of legal aid for civil courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1215\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Picture-010-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Picture 010\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>...brick through windows<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice has warned of &#8221;mayhem&#8221; if people involved in disputes are priced out of the civil court system because legal aid is not available.  He said, &#8221;Society should provide us with a place in which to resolve our disputes. The alternative is mayhem. The alternative is &#8216;If nobody else will help me, I will have to find somebody who will throw a brick through windows&#8217; or worse.<\/p>\n<p>He was voicing concerns in the legal profession that growing numbers of people are being excluded from the civil courts because the legal aid budget is being swallowed up by an &#8221;exponential&#8221; growth in the share going to criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>The government response is to introduce means testing in the magistrates courts and to introduce it in crown courts.<\/p>\n<p>News report in The Telegraph, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/6444148\/Lord-Chief-Justice-warns-of-mayhem-over-lack-of-legal-aid-for-civil-courts.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;brick through windows Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice has warned of &#8221;mayhem&#8221; if people involved in disputes are priced out of the civil court system because legal aid is not available. He said, &#8221;Society should provide us with a place in which to resolve our disputes. The alternative is mayhem. The alternative is &#8216;If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}