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solicitors will accept the pay or the anti social hours. yet defendants, from troubled children through to this chaotic drug user, still need representation. he needed help telling the court how he s trying to get clean. i might have got sent down. you might have got sent down? yeah. yeah? and i ve never been in prison before, and i don t ever want to go to prison. i m a good person. you re a good person? yeah. away again a two hour drive to a client with mental health problems in a police cell in aberystwyth. katie hansen is not the only lawyer now spending her day behind the wheel. her profession warns duty solicitor deserts are spreading across england and wales. the law society, which represents the profession, says there s been a 26% decline in duty defence solicitors since 2017, as lawyers walk away for better paid work elsewhere. staffordshire and essex have now lost more than half of their duty solicitors. nine other police areas have lost at least a third,
day behind the wheel. her profession warns duty solicitor deserts are spreading across england and wales. the law society, which represents the profession, says there s been a 26% decline in duty defence solicitors since 2017, as lawyers walk away for better paid work elsewhere. staffordshire and essex have now lost more than half of their duty solicitors. nine other police areas have lost at least a third, rural areas among the hardest hit. the organisation s leader says members know of police who have let suspects go because no duty solicitor was available. this could be somebody who has potentially committed a very, very serious crime. they re being allowed out without being interviewed. that has got consequences, because it goes to the protection of the public. if this government wants to be a government, a party, which is interested in law and order, it needs to take this seriously and do something about it.