But the government says the legal-aid system is among the most expensive in the world and is costing taxpayers too much at a time when resources are limited - hence the removal of some qualification criteria.
In Westminster Hall, the Commons parallel debating chamber, one of the subjects will pick up complaints about the Legal Aid etc Bill - the effect of changes to legal aid on the not-for-profit advice sector.
Ms Vaz - who posed the question about Abu Qatada's legal aid bill - said the public could not understand plans to cut Legal Aid "when a large amount of public funds has been given to one person's case".
Shadow justice minister Lord Bach - the former legal aid minister - said he agreed mediation could be used in more cases but said that it "doesn't come cheap either".
Tory MP Sir Edward Garnier - a former solicitor general - said legal aid should not be immune from widespread cuts.
The problem is that our legal aid clinics -- Tulane, Loyola, NoLAC -- all of these clinics have been so overburdened with cases that have to do with Katrina, that a lot of people can't get access to legal help.
Another calls for legal aid to be administered by an independent director - preventing the justice secretary from taking direct control of the legal aid budget, which would allow him to block funding for particular kinds of action, such as clinical negligence, welfare claims or miscarriages of justice against the police.
In mid-March, Legal Aid Foundation official Mulyana Kusumah and about 50 other activists launched an independent group to monitor the polls.
The bill makes wide-ranging changes to legal aid, the cost of litigation, and sentencing guidelines.
The videos were posted in January by Vladislav Nikitenko, a local activist and the legal aid of Andrey Nalyotov - whom Mr Makhno sentenced to five years in a penal colony for fraud.
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Mr Grayling's statement follows a warning from Lord Neuberger - the UK's most senior judge - that cuts to legal aid in civil cases, which will come into effect from April, could make people feel they cannot access justice and could then "take the law into their own hands".
He was speaking during day two of report-stage debate on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill on 1 November 2011.
Foley Hoag is among many megafirms across the country using the economic slump as an ideal time to lend a hand to cash-strapped public interest and legal aid firms.
The final contribution came from Labour peer Lord Wills, who accused the government of attacking clause 29 of the Magna Carta - which enshrines the right to due process - by restricting access to legal aid.
Instead of praising those who do this important work, non-lawyers look down their noses at Legal Aid lawyers.
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The Ministry of Justice also announced new measures on Tuesday to clamp down on criminals hiding their assets to qualify for legal aid under the "Crown Court means-testing scheme".
The group offers medical, legal and vocational aid, and helps to repatriate non-Ukrainians.
The Tuesday is reserved for dealing with the changes made in the Lords to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill - which has been thoroughly filleted by peers.
But if you want to fight the eviction, contact Legal Aid, which gives free legal help to low-income people.
Public interest and legal aid firms serving the underprivileged have long been under-funded and overwhelmed with cases even in a good economy.
Mike Dixon from Citizens Advice said the legal aid funding it received paid for "really in-depth, specialist advice, when people's problems have really become difficult".
Zeinab al-Ghnaimi, head of Gaza's only legal aid center for women, said the legislation is just the latest measure in Hamas' campaign of imposing its hard-line Islamic practices on Gaza's 1.7 million people.
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Neither House is due to sit on Thursday or Friday - but watch out for the Lords Constitution Committee report on the Legal Aid Bill.
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The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), a legal means of providing paperless illegal-immigrant youth access to higher education and financial aid, was signed into California law in October 2011.
Peers have one more day of report stage debate on that bill, but then it's the Health and Social Care Bill, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and the Scotland Bill - all bills which where different groups of peers, approaching the legislation from different angles, plan pitched battles.
But the other factor is the possibility of a big net vote against the government by crossbenchers - a distinct possibility when the big votes come at report stage on the Legal Aid Bill and the Health and Social Care Bill.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across inequality in income in the UK, access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law (and this is the latest shot in a guerrilla campaign against changes to legal aid rules which come into force from 1 April) and future railway re-openings.
Ms Scott-Moncrieff said she was concerned about a potential blanket ban on all recent immigrants being denied legal aid.
But instead of praising Legal Aid lawyers for keeping the system honest for everyone, many (if not most) non-lawyers look askance at the notion of representing the guilty, particularly the violent guilty.
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