Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

Thought the Guardian called it right again

• Legal aid reform: poor law

  Editorial: change is never painless, but it needs tackling with a surgeon's scalpel, not the scythe that Ken Clarke has armed himself with

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It can't say it wasn't warned. On Thursday the House of Lords constitution committee, representing the considered opinion of the former lord chancellor Lord Irvine and the eminent lawyer David Pannick, as well as the constitutional expert Lord Norton and the former law officer Lord Goldsmith, found the legal aid bill – debated in the upper house today – in breach of the constitutional principle that access to justice is a right, and its absence "an enemy of the rule of law". The government's plans to cut legal aid will fall hardest on the half a million or more of the most vulnerable at a time when they need help the most.