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Old 29-04-2004, 23:51   #1
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Tax payers money wasted?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3671939.stm
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More than £200m of taxpayers' money went on legal aid for asylum and immigration cases last year, the government says.
A provisional total of £204m for 2003-4 is nearly 16% higher than the previous year's figure of £176.2m.
Whatever your stance on imigration surely that money would be better spent on the NHS, public services and our own pensionners and homeless
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Old 29-04-2004, 23:59   #2
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Re: Tax payers money wasted?

Yup ...another instance of the Uk bending over backwards to please...or is that forward's?
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Old 30-04-2004, 00:08   #3
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Re: Tax payers money wasted?

You have to blame the ridiculous fees barristers are able to get away with.

What really sticks in my throat is that Blair's wife is a leading barrister in this field and is creaming off taxpayers money.
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Re: Tax payers money wasted?

Well, you could argue that have to give people a route to appeal, as sometimes (from my own experience in trying to move to the US), for one thing or other sometimes descisions aren't correctly made (intrepretting the law, for example) the first time.

What I would love to see though, is a cap, no, scratch that, a completely overhaul on the solicitors side of it, which is bleeding the country dry. You could say that if you pay soliicitors next to nothing, noone would defend the (alleged?) illegal immigrants, but you have a to draw a line somewhere. The system is just open to abuse, and the astonishing amount of money involved is hurting us all. I rememeber when someone uncovered that solicitors were bribing illegals, that acknowleged they had no right to remain, and were going to leave, to file with them, appeals that they know would fail, but were able to leech plenty of money in the form of costs and expenses. Also to this, the fruitless appeals system slows down the applications for everyone.
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Re: Tax payers money wasted?

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What really sticks in my throat is that Blair's wife is a leading barrister in this field and is creaming off taxpayers money.
Yup, that says it all about Blair and hence our government....we know who's side they're on
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Re: Tax payers money wasted?

These debates and figures will carry on and party's like the BNP will carry on growing until someone fix's the door and shut's it that's a fact.
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