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Naomi Long announces programme to improve access to justice

In a statement to the Assembly, Long said: “It has to be acknowledged that there is increasing demand right across the justice system reflecting that all too often we are the provider of the last resort.

“I, therefore, need additional funds to ensure I can properly protect citizens to ensure the vulnerable are not at risk, that I can adequately resource police, prisons and justice delivery not in spite of the pressures facing other departments but because of them.”

Long said that part of the reform will be ensuring those who can afford to pay their legal costs do so, so that public funding does not displace private funding.

Speaking in the Assembly on Monday, she added that “how we support access to justice can and does shape lives, and justice rarely gets the attention and funding it deserve”.

“It is clear we have a strong foundation on which to build but it is equally clear that remodelling is required,” she said.


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