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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Robert Goodwill almost always voted for restricting the scope of legal aid
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On 26 Ebr 2022:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against providing 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:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against providing 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:
Robert Goodwill was absent for a vote on Draft Civil Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014 — Residence Test for Legal Aid Eligibility
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On 5 Rha 2012:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio to extend legal aid to certain welfare appeals and certain international child benefit recovery cases.
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On 17 Ebr 2012:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio not 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:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against making legal aid available in respect of social welfare decisions.
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On 17 Ebr 2012:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against making legal aid available to children in a wider range of cases.
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On 2 Tach 2011:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against making 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:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio to reform legal aid, including removing it from some types of cases, to reform sentencing, and remand and to introduce new offences relating to threatening with a weapon.
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On 31 Hyd 2011:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against making legal aid available in clinical negligence cases.
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On 29 Meh 2011:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio to reform legal aid, including removing it from some types of cases, to reform sentencing, and remand and to introduce new offences relating to threatening with a weapon.
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On 22 Ion 2014:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio in favour of 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:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio to approve proposed criteria for determining if legal aid is to be awarded in particular circumstances.
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On 31 Hyd 2011:
Robert Goodwill wedi pleidleisio against explicitly including 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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