BBC News - Legal aid U-turn over price competition plan
Plans to cut the legal aid bill by awarding contracts to the lowest
bidder have been dropped, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has
announced.
In a Commons debate on Wednesday, Labour MP Karl Turner had warned:
"The government's proposals for PCT will irrevocably damage the criminal
justice system.
"PCT will inevitably lead to the market being dominated by the big multinationals, the usual suspects - G4S, Serco, Capita.
"And I fear many new entrants to the market who have
absolutely no experience whatsoever in delivering criminal justice will
dominate the market."
He warned it would no longer be viable for "small businesses,
the expert businesses who have established their practices over a
number of years" to "continue to exist".
Mr Turner concluded: "We will see the cornerstone of a
civilised society reduced to a factory mentality where quantity will
trump quality at each and every time."
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