The clients of a legal aid lawyer have recreated a John Lennon and Yoko Ono magazine cover to support her fight to keep her practice.
Yvonne Hossack has dedicated her legal career to helping vulnerable people and, in particular, is known for her work on behalf of care home residents facing eviction. She's acted for over 2,000 clients, saved care homes from closure and taken cases to Strasbourg.
But it's not been an easy ride: her firm has lost over £100,000 in the last year and she's been fighting a battle against the Legal Services Commission which refused Hossack's application for a legal aid contract (citing incorrectly filled out forms).
Down with those bureaucrats, I say!
Therefore former clients Roger Kinsey, 66, and his wife Chris, 58 …have decided to draw some attention to her plight by recreating Lennon and Ono's 1968 Rolling Stone cover.
Explaining their decision to get their kit off to the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph the couple said "we were young and full of hope for the future when this magazine cover was released and now....we are saddened that vulnerable people are facing huge cuts in services."
Christ! Aren’t we all! But good on the Kinseys for doing something.
I’m all for taking your clothes off in the name of the law - particularly for a cause as worthy legal aid. In fact, I’m thinking of holding a demonstration of my own.
But please, let’s not have any, ‘the law is an ass’ jokes. I’m trying desperately to raise the tone at Law Actually after all.
I'm glad this is still receiving attention, but it's actually old news, see here.
ReplyDeleteAh... 'my bad' ... I've been laying rather low in the 'sphere of late, so haven't been following things as diligently as usual. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI only saw it on RoF a few days ago and thought it was worth mentioning - if only because I could feature a rather superb example of a lady's sweetcheeks in the post.
It's all about the ass with me I'm afraid...