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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Maria Eagle almost always voted against restricting the scope of legal aid
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On 26 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Ion 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Gor 2014:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Rha 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to extend legal aid to certain welfare appeals and certain international child benefit recovery cases.
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On 17 Ebr 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Ebr 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to make legal aid available in respect of social welfare decisions.
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On 17 Ebr 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to make legal aid available to children in a wider range of cases.
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On 2 Tach 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Tach 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 Hyd 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to make legal aid available in clinical negligence cases.
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On 29 Meh 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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 22 Ion 2014:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against legal aid only being provided in cases assessed to have a greater than "borderline" chance of success.
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On 5 Rha 2012:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against proposed criteria for determining if legal aid is to be awarded in particular circumstances.
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On 31 Hyd 2011:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio 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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