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The number of AE patients in England waiting on trolleys for more than four hours to be admitted has risen by over a third to the highest level since records began, prompting warnings that cash pledged by the government will not be enough to relieve the acute pressure on the NHS.There were 57,694 patients waiting more than four hours from the decision to admit to admissi
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stanley cup stics, published on Thursday.The number waiting on a trolley for more than 12 hours almost tripled from 149 to 436.The official figures also show the number of patients who waited more than four hours to be seen in AE was up 32%, from 208,083 to 275,526.There were 2.7m attendances at AE departments in total 鈥?up 4% year on year 鈥?also a record, with 85.6% admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours, against a target of 95%.Experts and unions acknowledged last months record-breaking hot weather contributed. But they said the figures illustrated the 拢1.8bn pledged this we
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Innocent people will be forced to pay thousands of pounds for their own defence lawyers after a controversial coalition U-turn on legal aid.The move, which lawyers organisations claim puts a price on justice, comes at a time of mounting concern over cutbacks proposed by the Ministry of Justice. Clause 52 in the legal aid and sentencing bill removes the right of defendants to have the reasonable costs of hiring their own lawyer reimburse
stanley cups uk d if they are found innocent.The plan was first drawn up by the previous Labour government, but was scrapped in the face of Tory opposition. The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, the solicitor general, Edward Garnier, and justice ministers Jonathan Djanogly and Crispin Blunt all opposed the plan, and signed an early day motion against it in October 2009. But their decision now to back a similar proposal has alarmed justice groups. which have branded it a U-turn. We are deeply disappointed that this government is trying to bring this back, said Robert Kha
stanley mugs n, head of law reform at the Law Society. It is wrong in principle that the acquitted person should then have to pay the costs of their defence for the temerity of proving their own innocence. Ministers expect to save 拢40m under the proposals. More t
stanley cup han one million defendants who appeared before magistrates courts in 2008 did not receive legal aid, meaning the estimated tens of thousands subsequently found innocent would have lost out financially.The government
