Translate the text from English to Welsh.



 
Mick Antoniw said budget cuts over the last decade have risked creating one law for the rich and another for the poor.


The Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid, chaired by Sir Christopher Bellamy QC, made a central recommendation that at least £135 million additional funding is needed each year to ensure the criminal legal profession is adequately resourced.


The review estimated that around 56% of arrested suspects requested free legal advice, and expressed concern the take up of legal advice is not higher.


Citing the examples of post office managers wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal, and the lack of legal aid for the families of victims of the Hillsborough disaster, the Counsel General said in the Senedd:



> “Individuals facing criminal prosecution, and imprisonment, fear that the financial costs of defending themselves could bankrupt them even if they are successful.
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> “This means that the only option they may rationally choose is to plead guilty to an offence they have not committed, so that their home and other assets are protected for their family’s benefit.”


He added:



> “We fully agree with the review’s central recommendation that at least £135 million additional funding is needed each year just to support criminal legal aid. We contend that civil legal aid is similarly inadequately funded.
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> “It is imperative the UK government brings forward the radical reforms needed to ensure the equality of access to justice. Viscount Simon said in 1948 that “It is an incorrect slander to say there is one law for the rich and another for the poor”, yet this is where we are and this is what we must change.”


Jane Hutt, Minister for Social Justice, said:



> “Access to justice – the right to advice, representation, and support – is a fundamental human right. At its core, effective legal aid is about empowering people and ensuring we all have genuine rights in society. This is not only a legal matter but one of social justice, and the case for reform is clear.”


The Commission on Justice in Wales published a report in 2019 finding total legal aid spending in England and Wales fell by 29% in real terms between 2011\-12 and 2018\-19\. It also found that the £36 million spent on legal aid in Wales in 2018\-19 equated to £11\.50 per head of population, with the equivalent figure in England being £15 per head.


Despite justice not being devolved, and despite not being resourced to help those struggling to access Legal Aid, the Welsh Government has taken steps to provide people with support.


In this financial year more than £10 million funding has been made available to Single Advice Fund services in Wales, helping people resolve multiple and often entrenched social welfare problems. This includes representation before courts and tribunals.


In the last financial year, Single Advice Fund services in Wales helped 127,813 people deal with 286,666 social welfare problems.







Translation:


 
Dywedodd Mick Antoniw y gallai toriadau i’r gyllideb dros y degawd diwethaf fod wedi arwain at un gyfraith i bobl gyfoethog ac un arall i bobl dlawd.


Gwnaeth yr Adolygiad Annibynnol o Gymorth Cyfreithiol Troseddol, a gadeiriwyd gan Syr Christopher Bellamy CF, argymhelliad canolog bod angen o leiaf £135 miliwn ychwanegol o gyllid bob blwyddyn i sicrhau bod gan y proffesiwn cymorth cyfreithiol ddigon o adnoddau.


Amcangyfrifodd yr adolygiad fod tua 56% o bobl dan amheuaeth a arestiwyd wedi gofyn am gyngor cyfreithiol am ddim, a mynegodd bryder nad oedd y nifer sy’n cael cyngor cyfreithiol yn uwch.


Gan gyfeirio at yr enghreifftiau o reolwyr swyddfa bost a gafwyd yn euog ar gam yn sgandal Post Office Horizon, a’r diffyg cymorth cyfreithiol oedd ar gael i deuluoedd dioddefwyr trychineb Hillsborough, dywedodd y Cwnsler Cyffredinol yn y Senedd:



> “Mae unigolion sy’n wynebu erlyniad troseddol, a charchariad, yn ofni y gallai costau ariannol amddiffyn eu hunain eu gwneud yn fethdalwyr hyd yn oed os byddant yn llwyddiannus.
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> “Mae hyn yn golygu efallai mai’r unig opsiwn y gallan nhw ei ddewis yn rhesymegol yw pledio’n euog i drosedd nad ydyn nhw wedi’i chyflawni, fel bod eu cartrefi a’u hasedau eraill yn cael eu hamddiffyn er budd eu teuluoedd.”


Ychwanegodd:



> “Rydym yn cytuno’n llawn ag argymhelliad canolog yr adolygiad, sef bod angen £135 miliwn ychwanegol o gyllid bob blwyddyn er mwyn cefnogi cymorth cyfreithiol troseddol. Rydym yn dadlau nad oes gan gymorth cyfreithiol sifil gyllid digonol yn yr un modd.
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> “Mae’n hollbwysig bod Llywodraeth y DU yn cyflwyno'r diwygiadau radical sydd eu hangen i sicrhau cydraddoldeb mynediad at gyfiawnder. Dywedodd Is\-iarll Simon yn 1948 “ei fod yn athrod anghywir i ddweud bod un gyfraith i bobl gyfoethog ac un arall i bobl dlawd”, ac eto dyma ni a dyma’r hyn sy’n rhaid i ni ei newid.”


Dywedodd Jane Hutt, Y Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol:



> “Mae mynediad at gyfiawnder – yr hawl at gyngor, cynrychiolaeth a chymorth – yn hawl ddynol sylfaenol. Yn ei hanfod,  mae cymorth cyfreithiol effeithiol yn ymwneud â grymuso pobl a sicrhau bod gennym i gyd hawliau gwirioneddol mewn cymdeithas. Nid yw’n fater cyfreithiol yn unig ond mae’n fater o gyfiawnder cymdeithasol hefyd, ac mae’r achos dros ddiwygio’n glir.”


Cyhoeddodd y Comisiwn ar Gyfiawnder yng Nghymru adroddiad yn 2019 a nododd bod cyfanswm gwariant cymorth cyfreithiol yng Nghymru a Lloegr wedi gostwng 29% mewn termau real rhwng 2011\-12 a 2018\-19\. Nododd hefyd fod y £36 miliwn a wariwyd ar gymorth cyfreithiol yng Nghymru yn 2018\-19 yn cyfateb i £11\.50 y pen o’r boblogaeth, a’r ffigur cyfatebol yn Lloegr oedd £15 y pen.


Er nad yw cyfiawnder wedi’i ddatganoli, ac er nad oes ganddi’r adnoddau i helpu’r rhai hynny sy’n cael trafferth cael mynediad at Gymorth Cyfreithiol, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cymryd camau i roi cymorth i bobl.


Yn y flwyddyn ariannol hon, sicrhawyd bod cyllid gwerth mwy na £10 miliwn ar gael i wasanaethau’r Gronfa Gynghori Sengl yng Nghymru, gan helpu pobl i ddatrys nifer o broblemau lles cymdeithasol ac yn aml maen nhw’n broblemau hirsefydlog. Mae hyn yn cynnwys rhywun i’w cynrychioli mewn llysoedd a thribiwnlysoedd.


Yn ystod y flwyddyn ariannol ddiwethaf, gwnaeth gwasanaethau’r Gronfa Gynghori Sengl yng Nghymru helpu 127,813 o bobl i ddelio â 286,666 o broblemau lles cymdeithasol.