Lord Bach is leading the Labour Party's commission on access to justice. Photo: Robert D. Ward/Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved.
The commission on access to justice initiated a year ago by the Labour party under the leadership of Lord Bach, a former justice minister and shadow attorney-general, has issued an interim report: “The Crisis in the Justice System in England and Wales”
The crisis has been building over several years and there is no magic solution. Yet Bach makes a good start by identifying the problems and charting the direction of travel towards the realisation of the ideals embodied in Magna Carta and developed in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949. It promises a final report in another year.
