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Bar makes business case for restoring legal aid funding

Restoring legal aid to funding levels in place a decade ago will not only make the justice system fairer but deliver a bigger bang for the taxpayer's buck, says the president of the B.C.
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Restoring legal aid to funding levels in place a decade ago will not only make the justice system fairer but deliver a bigger bang for the taxpayer's buck, says the president of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA-BC)

Sharon Matthews was in Prince George on Thursday in part to urge the public to get behind a campaign to bring legal aid funding back up to the level seen before the provincial Liberal government slashed support by one-third to $60 million per year.

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