Commissioner ‘confident’ Labour-backed legal aid report, launched 100 days after Grenfell fire, will make it to the statute books
£400 million plan could revolutionise justice system
Katie King
Katie King is a reporter at Legal Cheek. She recently graduated from the University of Bristol Law School, and spent the summer working in a specialist family law firm in South London.
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