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April 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Women’s Institute, Netmums, Mumsnet and Rights of Women joined to lobby Kenneth Clarke to introduce amendments when the legal aid bill returns to the Commons because of concerns that it denies assistance to tens of thousands of women leaving abusive partners
In the letter obtained by the Observer and copied to the British Prime Minister David Cameron, the alliance also called for the Tory-led government to introduce broader criteria for determining the entitlement of domestic violence victims to legal aid.
“We feel strongly that women should be encouraged to take whatever route out of domestic violence they feel comfortable with, and should not be denied access to vital legal support because they have chosen not to report the violence they have experienced to statutory agencies,” reads the letter.
Last week, the UK government presented amendments to its Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, but women’s groups criticized the changes for safeguarding the legal aid only for women who enter a refuge, and not for those who access support services through charities.
According to latest figures, of the total of 124,895 women who accessed support services from Women’s Aid charity in 2010, only 17,615 were entered into a refuge.
In addition, according to the Women’s Aid’s annual survey, on a single day in 2011, 224 women were turned away from its refuge services.
Condemning the planned legal aid cuts as a “crime”, a spokesman for Sound Off for Justice said, “For over a year, we have warned the impact of this cut will not be to save money but to leave thousands of victims with no way of escape. The government knows this is an attack on the family and on women.”
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