Sentences with phrase «legal aid rates paid»

Legal aid rates paid by the Legal Aid Agency and prosecution rates, which are roughly aligned to them, have fallen considerately.

Not exact matches

Another mentions that pay rates for legal aid work have not risen for 20 years and are now actually falling.

Our governments have severely underfunded legal aid, indigenous people are incarcerated at a disproportionate rate, the courts are run with antiquated paper - based technology and millions of Canadians can't afford to pay for proper legal advice.

He also expressed concern over the lack of increase to the rate paid to lawyers offering legal aid services.

Recall that the reason these cases came to the Supreme Court was that the Attorney General of Ontario took the position that the amici played a role similar to that of defence counsel and should accept legal aid rates, but the amici refused to accept those rates, and the judges fixed rates that exceeded the legal aid tariff and ordered the Attorney General to pay those higher rates.

In order to ensure that recipients of legal aid had a meaningful choice of counsel and that senior members of the bar participated in the plan, the Joint Committee recommended that lawyers» fees be paid at a reduced but reasonable rate — approximately 75 per cent of their usual fees.

The rates of pay available under legal aid discourage many lawyer mediators from participating in the legally aided mediation system, the effect of which is not yet known.

My motivation was a desire to gain a deeper understanding of the machinery that inexorably grinds our system forward inch by inch (and not by the laughable pay rate that has the dubious distinction of being the only legal remuneration to make Legal Aid funding appear moderately generlegal remuneration to make Legal Aid funding appear moderately generLegal Aid funding appear moderately generous).

The MoJ is also proposing that fees paid to advocates appointed by the court to cross-examine victims of abuse will be cut from private to legal aid rates.

It seems to me that this data argues powerfully for both increasing eligibility for legal aid, so that fewer litigants are left without counsel, and lawyers to consider the unbundling of legal services, providing services at a flat rate or on a barter basis, and exploring other creative approaches to paid legal services than the billable hour.

A legal aid firm managing a straightforward divorce finance case which goes to full hearing would be paid # 2,106 at present, but # 1,299 under the new fixed fee rate.

In relation to the legal aid sector we warned that paying trainees at the National Minimum Wage rate would deter good quality individuals from entering this crucial area of work for vulnerable clients.

There is a confrontation developing in my Province (British Columbia) over rates paid to defence counsel on the legal aid tariff.

Clients will expect closer collaboration, aided by technology and will be unwilling to pay hourly rates for any legal process that could be automated.

Justice Stromberg - Stein pointed out that the comparison should not be between what LSS could pay and what the AG's department could spend on counsel but rather if B.C.'s legal aid rate fell below the standard offered by other provinces to enable the accused to obtain counsel.

One common problem being addressed by this year's winners is providing better legal services to the vast middle class — people who aren't wealthy enough to pay Wall Street lawyer rates, and aren't indigent enough to qualify for legal aid.

Two months later, Justice Strekaf imposed the penalty for the contempt, ordering the Tsuu T'ina Nation to pay «reasonable costs and expenses» of the three residents, as well as their legal costs (although only at the legal aid rate).

«We found that legal aid pay for family barristers lags far behind private client rates and below the rates paid by local authorities.

The Attorney General sought to pay the Legal Aid rate because they proposed these amicus curiae played a role similar to defence counsel.

Or perhaps it was the fact that many of this firm's files were eligible for Legal Aid and Legal Aid pays a higher hourly rate to lawyers than to clerks.