Sentences with phrase «legal aid reforms»

Legal Aid reforms in the single family court have further implications for family lawyers and their clients.

This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.

Does the government's new schedule for legal aid reform provide hope or just delay?

In introducing LASPO the Government agreed to review each policy between three and five years after implementation date together with «a wider review of the entire package of Legal Aid Reform policies implemented following the June 2011 Legal Aid consultation».

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

Last Friday, 22 June, the government issued a 51 - page document entitled Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report (Cm 7158).

Ed Stradling's exclusive mini-documentary on what he finds to be the dangers of legal aid reform proposals.

TV Edwards have supported Rights of Women and our David Emmerson gave evidence to the Justice Select Committee on the need for family legal aid reform.

The House of Commons Justice Committee in the UK recently released its report on the impact of civil legal aid reform on access to justice and here is a response from the UK Law Centres Network.

Fresh legal aid reforms are setting up a «fundamentally flawed» system where «price trumps all», barristers have warned.

It's yet another nail in the coffin for Chris Grayling's misguided, destructive and shambolic legal aid reforms.

A minority of respondents felt that men can be more adversely affected by legal aid reforms because they are less likely to qualify for legal aid now; private family law was singled out as an area were men may be marginalised, particularly in disputes over contact with children.

This proposal surfaced in a new discussion paper called Legal Aid and the Public Interest (which accused the government of having «lost its way» over legal aid reform).

The LSC's own impact study on legal aid reforms indicates that there already has been a substantial reduction in many firms» incomes.

Link to EDM 537 Legal Aid Reform Link to progress on the Legal Services Bill

Ken Clarke in the recent Green Paper on legal aid reform [PDF] claims that people should not resort to legal professionals to resolve disputes.

He says: «The government's legal aid reforms mean the number of family lawyers available to represent the most disadvantaged families is in decline.»

The criticisms of just about every aspect of the government's plans for implementation of the Carter legal aid reforms by the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee were so severe as to raise a serious question about whether the reforms can go ahead as planned.

Andrew Holroyd, Law Society vice president, says: «The SGM highlights the strength of feeling among solicitors about the current legal aid reforms.

The LSC told the committee that there were 11 consultations on the present criminal legal aid reform proposals, seven on civil legal aid and one cross-cutting consultation.

As the justice committee takes evidence on the impact of legal aid reforms the figures already show dramatic changes

In its damning report on these proposals entitled Family Legal Aid Reform, published on 15 July 2009, the House of Commons Justice Committee concluded that the LSC had «commissioned fundamental economic research into its supplier base where hitherto it was relying on anecdote.

In its report on the civil legal aid reforms two years ago, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee concluded that LASPO has «harmed access to justice» for some litigants (page 75, para 50) and that the MoJ should take steps to remedy the problems it had identified.

«The Government still failed to recognise the fundamental flaws in its proposals for legal aid reform.

Despite this, the government's 50 - page response, published on 22 June, rejected all the criticisms and promised that the reforms would go ahead as planned (see Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report, Cm 7158).

The Constitutional Affairs Committee Evidence 20th February on Legal Aid reforms — See what the Head of Legal Services Commission has to say on the implementation of the Carter Proposals.

The high court has ruled Grayling's legal aid reforms to be illegal, in a devastating blow for the justice secretary

Whilst this related to the unified civil contract, the same principles apply to the general criminal contract and the General Criminal Contract was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced and providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

The breadth and reach of the LASPO reforms mean that a meaningful estimate would require isolating the impact of the legal aid reforms from a number of other departmental policies, such as reforms to family justice and tribunal fees, policies from other government departments, such as changes to the benefits system, and wider societal trends, such as divorce rates or possession claims.

Amnesty International say legal aid cuts have created two - tier justice that leaves the poorest and most vulnerable out in the cold, by Emma Fitzsimons Amnesty International has released a blistering attack on the Government's legal aid reforms, which has led to the creation of a two - tier justice system that is increasingly closed to the most vulnerable and those in need of protection.

«Some people have blamed the shrinking PI market but the Jackson reforms do not come in until April, and the legal aid reforms have not yet been fully implemented.

Kings College have published a report Unintended Consequences: the cost of the Government's Legal Aid Reforms, analysing the knock - on costs to the forthcoming legal aid cuts.

An MoJ spokesman said: «As we have already made clear, we are committed to having a review of the legal aid reforms in LASPO.

· A further challenge to the government's criminal legal aid reforms has been brought by the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA) and the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA).

It says that, unlike the civil unified contract, the general criminal contract (GCC) was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced, therefore providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

Legal aid reforms for criminal work that were to be implemented between 15 October 2007 and 1 January 2008 will now be incorporated into the criminal contract to be introduced on 14 January 2008.

Notably the 1998 reforms were also accompanied by legal aid reform.

Still to be tackled is legal aid reform.

In view of this comprehensive change programme, it's important to emphasise that the recently announced Magee Review will be looking at the way legal aid is delivered and not the legal aid reform programme.

Legal Aid reform is controversial but necessary: «The reaction from the legal profession will be hysterical.

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As a separate measure to the wider programme of legal aid reform as set out in «Legal Aid Reform: The Way Ahead» the financial eligibility limits for legal aid for domestic violence victims will be raised and both income and capital limits will be able to waived, by the LSC, on a discretionary basis from 9 April 2007.

«We are continuing to work towards implementation of various elements of the legal aid reform programme in October as planned.

The government has announced a delay in implementing the legal aid reforms.

The government announced: «We plan to begin these discussions in early 2013 once the key components of our legal aid reform package, the regulatory changes allowing alternative business structures, and the introduction of the quality assurance scheme for advocates have had time to bed down.»

Prior to law school Zara was a front - line community advocate for over a decade, working extensively on issues involving violence against women and children, anti-racism, immigrant and refugee issues, legal aid reform, custody and access advocacy, anti-poverty initiatives and specific coalition work with South Asian women.

For those following the legal aid reforms debate in the UK, another article from the BBC that looks at the ramifications of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act which took many civil cases out of the scope of legal aid in April 2013.

The accountancy firm says that an expected tightening in lending strategy, combined with the expected effects of the Legal Services Bill and Lord Carter's legal aid reforms, will force the firms to merge or go into insolvency.