Fraud trial axed in legal aid row

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%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%The Prime Minister's brother, Alexander Cameron QC, has succeeded in having a multi-million pound fraud trial thrown out on the grounds that the Government's legal aid cuts prevented his clients from securing barristers to represent them.

Mr Cameron, who agreed to represent the five defendants free of charge in the application to stop the case, argued that the controversial Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reforms meant his legally-aided clients could not find barristers of "sufficient competence".

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