Mark Menzies – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Menzies on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to increase public understanding of the law.

Robert Buckland

Public Legal Education is a statutory feature of the justice system and part of the Rule of Law. I have been actively involved with the Citizenship Foundation who are the UK’s largest provider of public legal education for young people, I was also happy to support the recent establishment of the APPG to promote the importance of public legal education. It is my role as Solicitor General and as the Government’s pro bono champion, to help individuals become confident, effective members of society, helping them to develop an understanding of, how our society works as a democracy, our legal system, and their rights and responsibilities within it.