Claim: For every £1 spent on legal aid, the state saves £6.
Fact-check: How much money does legal aid save the country? - Full Fact
Verdict: this claim has evolved down a chain of several different pieces of research and should be treated with caution. academics say that we need more research about the savings that spending on legal aid can bring.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2016-01-08T00:00:00