Legal aid system ‘a disgrace’
PA Auckland The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Lange, last evening described New Zealand’s legal aid system as a disgrace. Speaking at the fourth annual Allan Nixon Memorial Lecture at the University of Auckland, Mr Lange said it was one area of the justice system which was “screaming” for reform. “There is a failure in delivery of competent legal representation, not from ill will in the legal profession but because they have been
economically frozen out of this market,” he said. Mr Lange said this had happened in a country which had “demonstrated by the comparison between civil and legal aid systems its respect for property and its indifference to people in stress.” He also criticised the report from the Penal Policy Review Committee. The speed with which the committee reported was “undoubtedly a factor in the inconsistency of argument and ambivalence of approach which characterises the report,” Mr Lange said.
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Press, 25 June 1983, Page 8
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