HC Deb 25 July 1990 vol 177 c627

In discharging its functions under this Schedule, the Advisory Committee shall have regard to the need for the efficient provision of legal services for persons who face special difficulties in making use of those services, including in particular special difficulties in expressing themselves or in understanding.'.

The effect of the amendment is to require the advisory committee to have regard to the needs of the disadvantaged, particularly the less articulate, when carrying out its functions under schedule 2. It has been tabled in response to amendments tabled in both another place and in Committee. I gave an undertaking that we would consider them with every sympathy. The amendment is the result that I am happy to bring forward.

Amendment agreed to.

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