This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Stop UK tax payers money funding lawyers against Service personnel or Veterans
Why should we as UK tax payers fund private law firms? They have created their own market and are in no rush to bring any cases to court, whilst this is being dragged out people who are trying to move on with their lives can't.
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If they were self funded they would only take on cases they thought they could win, most of these spurious cases would be dropped overnight.
They make huge profits so why are we paying for them to persecute our own Service personnel and Veterans
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
As we understand it, the Government does not directly fund private law firms.
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