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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Ian Murray almost always voted against restricting the scope of legal aid
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On 26 Apr 2022:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray voted against a residence test as an eligibility criteria for civil legal aid; subject to exceptions for refugees and those who have sought asylum.
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On 5 Dec 2012:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray voted to make legal aid available in respect of social welfare decisions.
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On 17 Apr 2012:
Ian Murray voted to make legal aid available to children in a wider range of cases.
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On 2 Nov 2011:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray 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:
Ian Murray voted to make legal aid available in clinical negligence cases.
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On 29 Jun 2011:
Ian Murray was absent for a vote on Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Second Reading
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On 22 Jan 2014:
Ian Murray voted against legal aid only being provided in cases assessed to have a greater than "borderline" chance of success.
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On 5 Dec 2012:
Ian Murray voted against proposed criteria for determining if legal aid is to be awarded in particular circumstances.
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On 31 Oct 2011:
Ian Murray 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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