Not only is the French justice minister Rachida Dati planning to close courts – Le Monde reckons a quarter of civil courts and half of employment tribunals are going to go; she’s also suggested in an answer in the National Assembly that legal aid may be made be subject to contribution. She’s not making herself popular among lawyers. Here’s the senate report she mentioned.

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