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said it had been bought by an anonymous bidder. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Lawyers in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire say cuts to legal aid | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
are having a severe effect on those least able to afford it. Last year | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
the government stopped providing public funds for some types of | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
cases, as part of a plan to save ?350 million a year. But opponents | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
say the policy has left many on lower incomes having to represent | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
themselves in court. Kate Sweeting reports. | :00:33. | :00:53. | |
Cuts to legal aid have caused outrage amongst the legal | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
many say it's the poorest families who are suffering the most. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Carol has spent a year and thousands of pounds fighting through | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
the courts to get her two grandson's out of care. Under the new rules, | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
can't afford to fight for their children. I am only fighting for my | :01:09. | :01:20. | |
grandsons. I have done nothing wrong. | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
Legal aid uses public funds to pay for court cases. Cuts to civil legal | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
aid came into effect in April 2013. Since then nearly all family law | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
advice is exempt from legal aid, meaning people can no longer get | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
funding for things like child contact. | :01:32. | :01:32. | |
Hull Solicitor Sarah Clubley says she's seen dozens of families who | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
can no longer get legal aid. They come in our office and it is a | :01:45. | :01:57. | |
tragedy what is happening out there. In a statement the Ministry of | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Justice told us "Whilst we have had to address the | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
cost of one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world we | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
have also made sure legal aid remains available for the cases | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
where people most need legal help. This includes where life or liberty | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
is at stake and where a person is at risk of serious physical harm.' But | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
some maintain that the new system isn't working. Carol says | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
she'll fight on. But as the legal bills mount up | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
she risks losing not only them but also her home. It's about little | :02:26. | :02:45. | |
Earlier I spoke to the Hull East MP Karl Turner who is | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
I asked him if he agreed that legal aid bill had to come down. | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
The efficiencies that have to be made. The government have ignored | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
that. They are not saving any money at all worthless. A proceeding in | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
the family court which would normally take an hour is taking a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
full day and kids are suffering as a result. Do you accept the greedy | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
lawyers and barristers have got this in this situation? It is a complete | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
fallacy that lawyers are earning fortunes. They are ending a huge | :03:36. | :03:49. | |
amount of money. I suspect that the figures reflect monies paid for five | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
or six years worked. When you are paid by the public purse, it takes a | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
very long time to get the money end so the large amounts are probably | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
over a few years. There is nothing to worry about because the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
government says people whose lives of liberty at stake will be covered. | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
Only 1% has been paid in relation to those cases so it is just not | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
working and they are not saving any money because proceedings are taking | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
so much longer. Are you fighting for your legal friends are ordinary | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
people? I am fighting for access to justice for people and I want | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
parents and children to be represented in court. I do not mind | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
admitting I want fairness of access to court. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
must make further savings worth ?90 million. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
It's already made ?125 million of cuts since 2009. Unions claim the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
latest savings could see 500 jobs go. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Police have released CCTV footage of a woman who's missing in | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Lincolnshire. 60`year`old Diane Tytheridge from | :05:11. | :05:11. | |
Bicker hasn't been seen since Wednesday morning. Police expanded | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
their search area at the weekend after a review of CCTV showed Diane | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
in the morning near the bus station in Boston. | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
Hull is to receive more than ?3 million in arts funding. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Venues like Hull Truck Theatre will get a share of the money from the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Arts Council England. There's also cash for the city's Freedom Festival | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
in the run up to the year as City of Culture. | :05:36. | :05:56. | |
In whole two out of three organisations are getting investment | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
which is extremely unusual. There could be a case for investment | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
in flood defences along the Humber. That's according to one Government | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Minister. MPs from the area have been in | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Parliament lobbying for more to be spent on protecting communities | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
after December's tidal surge. The work that they're doing, along | :06:13. | :06:28. | |
with the technical advice that's being | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
received, or the work that the local authorities are involved in, will | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
make a very strong case for a long`term investment plan. | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
By the end of the night, temperatures should be back in | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
single figures. Temperatures will remain constant and the cloud will | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
build but it will stay mainly drive. We will get up to 23 degrees or 24 | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
degrees. 23 degrees is 74 Fahrenheit. There might be the odd | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
spot of rain on Friday and it will be Saturday before it slowly clears. | :07:17. | :07:32. | |
more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
football again. The | :07:43. | :07:43. |