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Legal aid cuts 'will force victims of human trafficking to claim asylum'

Categories: Articles:Asylum & Refugees, Articles:Human Rights | Published: 27/10/2011 | Views: 2679
Victims of human trafficking who end up in the UK could be forced to claim asylum to stay in the country, the general secretary of the Immigration Law Practitioners Group has warned. Alison Harvey said asylum claims would continue to be publicly funded under the legal aid bill, but other immigration cases would not, apart from those involving detention or questions of national security.
Solicitors Journal, 25 October 2011

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