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His own firm plans to give up family legal aid work at its Amesbury and Andover offices by next summer. And he predicts the entire legal aid system could soon collapse. "Just four years ago there were five firms willing to take on family legal aid cases in Salisbury - now there are just two," he said. "My firm has always been committed to helping the disadvantaged and vulnerable by doing a variety of legal aid work. "However, the Government has consistently refused to increase legal aid pay rates for the last eight years and introduced new fixed fee family payments on October 1, which substantially reduce those rates of pay. "It is not that solicitors are greedy, but that the new proposed rates are simply unprofitable." He said reductions of up to 30 per cent in rates of legal aid pay, which were well below what solicitors charged private clients, coupled with the costs of running a solicitors' practice increasing each year was "an impossible business proposition".
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