Cuts in any department is not a good thing. Cuts in legal aid can have dire consequences especially for the public as an estimated 500,000 people will be unable to gain access to free legal aid. Debt advice, housing, divorce, benefits and employment are some areas that will no longer be free legal aid. This could lead to MP's having to take on a greater workload and employ more people to deal with issues such as immigration cases which would normally be dealt with by a law centre. Additonally, law firms could be highly affected as they would have to reduce their rates in order to help the less wealthy deal with issues that would have normally been free.
I cannot see the positve outcome in the cuts to the legal sector. Again, it will only make the gap between rich and poor more prominnent and lead to injustice as the less affluent will have great difficulty trying to defend themselves in legal cases.
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