Surely the point on legal aid is that this is to protect British citizens who might be wrongly accused and languishing in an unfit foreign prison, and to provide them with some legal support, at a total estimated cost of £200,000—a fraction of the value of the Home Secretary’s house.
Criminal Procedural Rights (Opt-in Decision)
Proceeding contribution from
Geraint Davies
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 March 2014.
It occurred during Debate on Criminal Procedural Rights (Opt-in Decision).
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2013-14
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