FOCUS OF THE DAY story: The government has made two key concessions demanded by opponents of the Legal Aid, the broad definition of domestic violence used by the Association of Chief Police Officers should be employed in the bill & that legal aid should remain automatically available in some children's clinical negligence cases . Full story - Law Gazette
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