Part of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:16 pm on 14 July 2011.
Roger Smith: I was making a general point that Scottish legal aid has been well managed in terms of the use of salaried lawyers here and there very strategically. We had a big experiment with the public defender solicitors operation that was set up to fail, and did. The Scots have been much shrewder about making small practical rather than non-political—