As the Legal Aid Bill makes its swift and increasingly undeserved passing through the Houses of Parliament, Britain can only bow its head in shame to see the cutting of our £2 Billion yearly budget of Legal Aid. These changes introduced by Ken Clarke, Justice Minister, are being aroused by the need for Government to cut back its spending by trying to address its debt. With Britain’s total debt predicting to hit £10 trillion by 2015, the cognitive concept that we are ridding ourselves of an internally and internationally respected symbolic pillar of our justice system and society seems fairly incomprehensible when we are seeing only around £350m saving a year at the end of it all. The social and cultural cost of losing this incredibly significantly needed welfare pillar of England & Wales seems irrational and unnecessary for it is Legal Aid that so many vulnerable individuals of our society depend so deeply on, the very individuals which this Conservative Government argued that its cuts would not affect and the very individuals they wanted to protect . ‘There is no justice without social justice’ said Baroness Kennedy Q.C. recently in her lecture in Cardiff on the 23rd of November. Thus, the decision to axe Legal Aid cannot be just if the decision seems too abstract among its social context.