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Bill: Amendment to the Legal Aid Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Al'Badara Republican Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2451
Description[?]:
The AAP proposes that there should be limitations on who receives legal aid. Yes, a poor (monetarily) defendant who obviously cannot afford the retainer fee for a lawyer should receive legal aid. But the upper middle and upper class who can afford a lawyer should not receive legal aid. Why should we help people who already have a lot of money, this is clearly a waste of taxpayers' money! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Proposed: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 00:07:14, September 05, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | As there is no "upper class" yet, we will not support this. |
Date | 00:24:41, September 05, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | As there is no "upper class" yet, we will not support this. |
Date | 08:48:46, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | PM seems to live in delusion. Where there is want there is power, when there is power there is an upper class. |
Date | 13:31:47, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | I bet the leader of the PM himself lives in a slum, right? Anyways, no matter where or when, there is always an upper class, even in the former Soviet Union. Perhaps the PM is thinking that everyone is too poor in this country or taking socialism (although more like communism) to the extreme! |
Date | 02:18:03, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | I, the leader of the PM, am proud to say that I live with my humble brothers and sisters. The PM has always protected the people since the Civil War, and has since then continued to fund and protect the People throughout the nation via various programmes launched specifically by the party. We have fought and bled to establish equal rights amongst the citizen. |
Date | 02:19:08, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | There should be no special treatment whatsoever. Everyone stands equal to the law and to the judicial system, regardless of salary pay. When charged with a crime, one is charged by the State, and should therefore be provided with a legal aid for free seeing as how the state is conducting the trial. |
Date | 02:20:10, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | If we start dividing up things like this, you might end up giving bad representation to people with lower income simply because they cannot afford "top lawyers". And that itself would be totally unacceptable. The PM apologizes for the multiple posts. |
Date | 14:57:54, September 06, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Amendment to the Legal Aid Act |
Message | DN! sides up with a bourgeois opinion? The PM thought the supposedly new leadership of the DN was more radical than the old, perhaps we were wrong. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 114 | ||||||
no | Total Seats: 37 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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