Yes. Well worth reading through the good work that Dr Phil Hammond (MD in Private Eye) has been doing on this topic.
It's a fairly detailed article so selective quotes would not give a sensible representation of what is being discussed.
Although the selective answer is "not very". One of the cases that MD pointed out is a baby who died from the same "insulin poisoning" findings that were used to convict Letby but the evidence of which was not mentioned at trial as Letby was not involved in that baby's care or on duty when that baby died. So you have another baby who was found to have the same post-mortem findings but whom Letby could not have killed. This of course would have cast doubt on the expert evidence.
I'd guess it's a complex case with a lot of specialist technical amnd medical details. If Ms Letby was reliant of Legal Aid are there constraints on what this scheme will pay for eg do you get whatever legal team the system appoints to you or can you chose? what sort of budgets to they have for expert analysis and expert witnesses?
She did get Legal Aid, but yes you are correct that you are limited to those Barristers and Solicitors who are willing to work for legal aid rates. These are usually more junior and less experienced.
