Across the past two years, Legal Aid has seen huge funding cuts. In the final debate of Lebt 2015; the Union asked whether the changes are an assault on access to justice, or a necessary limit to a system that has ballooned excessively. ****************** PROPOSITION ****************** Jonathan Djanogly is MP for Huntingdon. As a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, he introduced and led the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill in 2011. Richard O'Keeffe is an an affiliate lawyer and has worked as a para-legal at a law centre undertaking publically-funded housing, immigration and asylum cases. Michael Dunn Goekjian was ranked as the second best speaker at The 2015 World Universities Debating Championship and is a former President of the Cambridge Union. ****************** OPPOSITION ****************** Amy Gregg is a fourth year Law Student and the outgoing President of the Cambridge Union. She wrote her undergraduate dissertation on the constitutional legitimacy of restricting access to legal aid. Andrew Caplen is the current President of the UK Law Society. He was one of the co-authors of the Law Society’s Access to Justice Review. Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC a leading practitioner in commercial dispute resolution and a former President of the Cambridge Union

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