Legal Aid
There have been votes in Parliament on the subject of eligibility for legal aid. Matters which have been voted on include means testing, if aid should be generally restricted to those residing in the UK, and which legal services should be funded by legal aid.
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Ben Bradshaw almost always voted against restricting the scope of legal aid
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On 26 Apr 2022:
Ben Bradshaw voted to provide publicly funded legal representation for bereaved people at inquests where a public body has a connection to the case.
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On 25 Jan 2022:
Ben Bradshaw voted to provide publicly funded legal representation for bereaved people at inquests where a public body has a connection to the case.
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On 9 Jul 2014:
Ben Bradshaw was absent for a vote on Draft Civil Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014 — Residence Test for Legal Aid Eligibility
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On 5 Dec 2012:
Ben Bradshaw voted not to extend legal aid to certain welfare appeals and certain international child benefit recovery cases.
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On 17 Apr 2012:
Ben Bradshaw voted to require the Lord Chancellor to ensure that, subject to resources, individuals have access to legal services that effectively meet their needs.
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On 17 Apr 2012:
Ben Bradshaw voted to make legal aid available in respect of social welfare decisions.
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On 17 Apr 2012:
Ben Bradshaw voted to make legal aid available to children in a wider range of cases.
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On 2 Nov 2011:
Ben Bradshaw voted to make legal aid available to cover the entirety of assistance required where people are deemed to have complex, interconnected needs, some of which do not usually attract aid.
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On 2 Nov 2011:
Ben Bradshaw voted against reforming reform legal aid, against removing it from some types of cases, against sentencing and remand reforms and not to introduce new offences relating to threatening with a weapon.
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On 31 Oct 2011:
Ben Bradshaw voted to make legal aid available in clinical negligence cases.
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On 29 Jun 2011:
Ben Bradshaw voted against reforming reform legal aid, against removing it from some types of cases, against sentencing and remand reforms and not to introduce new offences relating to threatening with a weapon.
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On 22 Jan 2014:
Ben Bradshaw was absent for a vote on Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations — Legal Aid In Cases With Borderline Prospect of Success
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On 5 Dec 2012:
Ben Bradshaw voted against proposed criteria for determining if legal aid is to be awarded in particular circumstances.
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On 31 Oct 2011:
Ben Bradshaw voted to explicitly include threats plus financial and emotional abuse in the definition of domestic abuse used in relation to the award of civil legal aid to domestic abuse victims.
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