LEGAL AID FOR POOR PERSONS
MINISTER TO PUT SCHEME \ TO CABINET
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. September 17. Tne Minister of Justice (Mr T. C. Webb) expects to be able to put before the Cabinet in the next few weeks his proposals for giving effect to the Aid Act. This act, which was Placed on the Statute Book in 1939, empowers the Government to make regulations providing for legal aid to Poor persons. Mr Webb said that while the State could not provide unlimited legal aid, the scheme to be placed before the vaoinet would assist poor people to ®eet part of the costs inseparable trona litigation. Under the scheme :t was suggested that a panel of counsel would be formed in each district, the Government paying at least witnesses’ expenses and other disbursements, end perhaps a moderate fee to councases where claims did not succeed. If claims succeeded costs would, or course, be recovered from defendants.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26220, 18 September 1950, Page 3
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