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A number of high-profile public figures have thrown their weight behind a campaign against legal aid cuts.
Actor Emma Thompson, political scholar Noam Chomsky and the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence Baroness Doreen Lawrence called on the Liberal Democrats yesterday to press for a halt to changes to legal aid.
Director Ken Loach, human rights campaigners Peter Tatchell and Bianca Jagger have also sent messages to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
TERRY HANSEN explains how Netanyahu’s boasts of 92,000 aid trucks contradict his own January admission of providing ‘minimal humanitarian aid’ and decades of Israeli documents reveal policies designed to keep Palestinians at ‘minimal subsistence’ levels since 1991
