A judge has criticised what he called the “triumph of bureaucracy and administration over actually doing something” after he was told that the Legal Aid Board would not sanction a psychiatric report until it receives a PPS number for a man facing a murder charge.

Without knowing the full background to this, the purpose of free legal aid is to ensure that someone facing serious charges has access to a lawyer. This should apply to tourists and welfare tourists too. Otherwise just deport them.

Is this a new immigrant without a PPS number?

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