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Justice and Law Enforcement

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Poor Prisoners’ Defence Act 1903. This was the first Act which made provision for legal aid, which was limited to trials on indictment.

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Correspondence to Roger Mortimore .

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Mortimore, R., Blick, A. (2018). Justice and Law Enforcement. In: Mortimore, R., Blick, A. (eds) Butler's British Political Facts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56709-3_9

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