Teenager takes plea for aid to Cameron’s door

Cerebral palsy sufferer Andrew Green, 14, arrived at Downing Street accompanied by his sister Joanna, 11, and parents Rick and Julie where he hit out at “inconsiderate” moves which would cut legal aid in cases of clinical negligence such as his own, writing: “IT IS NOT FAIR!”

“Regardless of the cost to the Government, legal aid medical negligence is part of civil rights that everybody should have access to, whether the applicant is rich or poor,” he writes.

He tells the Prime Minister how his family relied on the funding to fight an eight-year legal battle after he was left with cerebral palsy following a “mismanaged” birth.

Asking the Prime Minister for a personal meeting, the Grimsby teenager adds: “Words do not go towards explaining how important legal aid (for medical cases, especially) really is, and to me, my true feelings could never be expressed in this letter.”

His father Rick added: “It’s obscene that other people in a similar situation might not be able to do what we did because of money. That’s not how a fair society should be is it?”