Sentences with phrase «legal action group»

London, UK About Blog Legal Action Group promotes equal access to justice as a fundamental democratic right.

Writing in this week's NLJ, Steve Hynes, Legal Action Group (LAG) director, says LAG understand that some of the increase in individual claims will be attributable to employees of the supermarket chain ASDA bringing individual claims.

This is just the kind of book that the Legal Action Group (LAG) ought to publish.

Legal Action Group (LAG) is a national charity committed to improving access to justice.

London, UK About Blog Legal Action Group promotes equal access to justice as a fundamental democratic right.

He is a solicitor and has been director of the Legal Action Group, JUSTICE and West Hampstead Community Law Centre as well as director of policy and legal education at the Law Society, London, and solicitor to the Child Poverty Action Group.

Meanwhile, Jon Robins is joining the Legal Action Group later this month as communications and campaigns director.

Steve Hynes, director, Legal Action Group, said: «It is worse than we expected.

Writing in NLJ this week, Steve Hynes, director, Legal Action Group, says he fears not - for - profit organisations could be badly hit if the plans go ahead since more than half of the current providers are from that sector.

Writing in NLJ this week, Steve Hynes, director, Legal Action Group, says Rechtwijzer 2.0 «looks like it is coming to an ignominious end».

Legal Action Group released a new report, Justice in freefall, analysing the latest legal aid statistics from the Ministry of Justice and recommending immediate commencement of the LASPO review, reinvestment of the civil legal aid budget underspend in an innovation fund and a public information campaign about what problems legal aid is available for.

Edited by Jon Robins, co-author of The Justice Gap: whatever happened to legal aid, published by the Legal Action Group (May 2009).

Following our meeting on Campaigning for Access to Justice in London, YLAL — together with LAPG and Legal Action Group — sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, calling on the government to review LASPO as soon as possible.

Until now, it has been possible in England and Wales to use legal aid and its committed practitioners as a rallying point — as the Legal Aid Practitioners Group and, more widely, the Legal Action Group have done.

Steve Hynes of Legal Action Group argued in this blog that Labour's legal aid review needs to focus on the public.

As the Legal Action Group (LAG) has argued (and the experience of Citizens Advice seems to bear out) the decimation of legal aid's infrastructure has an adverse impact upon the take - up of that part of publicly - funded legal advice that was left intact.

It is a short pamphlet written by a coalition of groups comprising the Bar Council, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, the Law Centres Network, AdviceUK and the Legal Action Group.

Speaking to Legal Action Group director Steve Hynes, Lord Bach says «cuts to social welfare law were never justified and the cuts in family law have led to more litigants in person clogging the courts system and adding to costs.»

Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group, thought the vote was «a completely meaningless gesture».

It is the Legal Action Group's (LAG's) view that the LSC is in danger of falling down the pitfalls inherent in this sort of monopsonistic market.

A slight digression: it was interesting to read in the Legal Action Group's (LAG's) Austerity Justice book that the coalition government dropped plans to introduce competitive tendering because, as LAG director Steve Hynes tells it, Ken Clarke was persuaded by «his old colleagues at the criminal bar».

Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group, says: «The LASPO Act has denied tens of thousands of people access to justice and equality before the law.

Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group (LAG), said legal advice agencies across the country faced potential closure due to funding cuts, and that both Birmingham and Ealing Borough faced cuts of more than # 1m.

For the Legal Action Group (LAG), and other legal aid commentators, the failure of the tenders was very much a case of «I told you so» as concerns were expressed about the tender process from its inception and in particularly the selection criteria to distinguish between firms.

Legal Action Group (LAG) welcomes the increased pressure on the government regarding this issue, but we are warning that action needs to be taken urgently, as civil legal aid is becoming a narrow collection of specialisms dominated by child protection, with shrinking provision for the type of early advice services needed by the general public.

Legal Action Group's (LAG's) understanding is that this will go ahead under Dominic Rabb, the new minister with responsibility for legal aid.

Steve Hynes is the director of Legal Action Group ([email protected]; www.lag.org.uk).

The Legal Action Group (LAG) believes that # 20m could pay for 500 to 700 jobs helping more than 100,000 members of the public.

Interestingly, Legal Action Group commissioned a poll of 1001 GPs, to help quantify the impact of LAPSO and cuts in social welfare.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

The team includes one of the authors of the Legal Action Group publication Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook, the leading practitioner text.

The Secret Barrister has pledged royalties from this campaign to the Bar Pro Bono Unit and the publisher, Pan MacMillan, has pledged to match the donation to be split between Law Works (the solicitor's pro bono charity) and Legal Action Group (LAG, the Access to Justice charity).

Co-author of Bribery: A Compliance Handbook; Regular column in Legal Action Group (quarterly) and contributor to national media.

According to the current contract holders the Legal Action Group (LAG) spoke to, the only way they can manage to deliver a national service is by telephone, and while this is far from ideal, it is manageable.

The Low Commission, established by the Legal Action Group (LAG), spent a year investigating «the state of social welfare law provision» (and what a woeful experience that must have been).

Not exact matches

In addition, Gawker Media Group is facing a flurry of other legal actions, but none as significant as the Bollea case.

The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

The legal action is not direct a response to Match Group's initial lawsuit.

Goldfields fuel supplier Eagle Petroleum has started legal action against mining company BNM Australia Group over unpaid debts.

CIMIC Group has launched legal action in the United States against Chevron over cost blowouts on jetty and marine structures it built at the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island.

«Goldilocks Investment Company Ltd has filed legal action today in light of the continuing refusal by Noble Group Ltd to recognize legitimate legal rights of Goldilocks as a shareholder of Noble,» the investment fund, which holds an 8.1 percent stake in Singapore - listed Noble said in a statement.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

SINGAPORE, April 29 - Noble Group will set a date for a special meeting to seek shareholder approval for a $ 3.4 billion debt restructuring after a Singapore court blocked its scheduled annual meeting following legal action by a dissident shareholder.

Gumala Aboriginal Corporation is taking legal action against its former chief executive, Steve Mav, for allegedly breaching his duties while he was at the helm of the indigenous group.

He said it was «insane» that Facebook had yet to take legal action against Cambridge parent SCL Group over the inappropriate data use.

According to Jeffrey Berns, Managing Partner of Berns Weiss LLP, «the virtual currency / blockchain practice group of Berns Weiss LLP has been contacted by various people inquiring about potential legal action against Poloniex and Kraken with regard to the recent sell off at those exchanges in conjunction with DDoS attacks.»

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By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

SCL Group threatened legal action against Wylie for supposedly violating a «noncompete» clause he signed before quitting.

The group threatening legal action against Bitcoin.com for alleged disinformation has cancelled its initiative, citing insufficient funds