In the House of Commons last week Heidi Alexander, the Labour MP for Lewisham East, said that since the government “took the axe to legal aid” rising numbers of people representing themselves in court were “clogging up the courts, costing time and costing money”. She asked the government to reveal how many people had acted as so-called ‘litigants in person’ in the first six months of this year compared to the same period four years ago.
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