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After another night on call in the police station in Hastings, the lawyer should Kim Evans tries to stay calm Buddhist

is 3:15 in the Hastings police station on Sunday morning. The camera closed circuit television in "The Bridge", the office of the custody sergeant, is formed by M1 cells. The detainee lying on his back and hit the metal door with his feet. He did this for over 90 minutes, breaking occasionally to get to his feet and a flash of greeting Hitler.

along the metal drum roll, I try to interview Kim Evans, a tax lawyer whose job tonight is to advise people detained by Sussex Police of their legal rights. Many of his clients come from what our Lord Chancellor this week called the "underclass savage."

Why, I wonder, did anyone do their job? Evans was reading Khalil Gibran, who wrote "Work is love made visible." "I struggle with that at 3 am," she admits. But Evans, who describes himself as "an aspiring Buddhist" and "a bit of a geek law" is made of solid material.

Evans spends most of his professional life in that position from 1960 interview rooms serving the attractive coastal town. She spends two days a week and one weekend in three of the guards and the rest of their time defending their own customers in the defense of the company Goodall Barnett James. It is estimated that 90% of its customers "have a personality disorder, mental health problems, and / or severe addiction."

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Evans began at 9 am with a call to the station to represent Chris, a 20 year old man who had his computer seized. He is accused of inciting a girl at the age of 13 years to participate in sexual activity. "Sometimes it can be difficult to deal with these things that the mother of a girl, but I put aside my personal feelings," says Evans.

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in the city of Evans is something of an ordeal for her teenage daughter, as sometimes clients come and give mom a hug grateful. "She calls me" the best friend of every drug dealer, "" he said. "The reader of the Daily Mail scold me for defending the guilty, but if they or their wives, had the misfortune to have spent a moment of concentration and kill a child in a car accident, he loves me."

The right of persons detained by the police to speak to a lawyer and be present during the interview is now enshrined in the law on the Police and Criminal Evidence 1984 (PACE). Currently, Ken Clarke made a motion to announce that the UK is opting out of access to the EU directive guaranteeing a lawyer after his arrest.

addition, new legislation threatens to undermine the government's legal aid a security described by the appellate judges as "one of the most important rights and fundamental of a citizen," and presented in response to a series of miscarriages of justice. If you are arrested today are automatically eligible for free advice from a lawyer paid for courtesy of the legal aid system. The new bill is an automatic right to a lawyer for legal advice helped the suspects to the police station. If the proposals are made, the suspects face a means test before qualifying for public funds, while the bill allows the extension phone, rather than face to face advice.

Nearly 1.5 million people are arrested each year. "Many of them have never been closed before, it is unclear how long the police can maintain, and have no idea what to do in an interview," says Professor Ed Cape, Professor of Law at the University of Bristol and an expert in the rhythm. As explained in education, the right to silence was effectively abolished in 1994 and a failure to tell police the details of where they can not enter the court until months or years later can be used as evidence of guilt. "No matter how good behavior to the police, the police are a concern, even fear, the scene," said the corporal. "The right to counsel is more important than ever, but with cuts in Legal Aid, which is under threat like never before. "

How it feels to be beaten at the police station in Hastings? "It's not something I will never enjoy, but it gives you time to think," says Jamie. "If you give the police a hard time giving it a bad time. If you are friendly, they will be respectful. "And your mother?" Police speak another language, elegant words. With a condition like ADHD that the police only the label of being "bad." Is not considered a reason [their actions], even if you are on medication. "