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LEGAL AID UNDERFUNDING – is chronic and ubiquitous. Legal aid less than minimum wage, prominent lawyer complains | Vancouver Sun

Posted bywpengine 7 April 2018

One of the country’s top criminal lawyers, Marilyn Sandford, sat in her downtown Vancouver office aerie, lamenting the dire state of the courts and threadbare legal aid.

Source: Ian Mulgrew: Legal aid less than minimum wage, prominent lawyer complains | Vancouver Sun

Posted bywpengine7 April 2018Posted inUncategorized

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