Sentences with phrase «access to legal advice»

Ultimately, the service is responsible for providing its members with the peace of mind that comes with access to legal advice when they need it most.

The importance of ready access to legal advice is key as well as high speed delivery.

Going directly to lawyers from the outset means immediate access to legal advice as to whether action is necessary to protect rights in bankruptcy, to protect against counter claims and so on.

Yet further evidence of the health benefits of early access to legal advice was published last month.

Without access to legal advice and representation in our adversarial justice system the principle of equality before the law is undermined.

In the last column we explored one such limitation, being reduced access to legal advice and legal advocacy due to a comparatively smaller number of lawyers practicing in rural areas.

For those of you not familiar with pre-paid legal plans, they started as union or employee benefits that provided access to legal advice.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid met on 3 September 2014 to discuss the effect of cuts to legal aid on access to legal advice.

Participants will be invited to design various tools to support online courts — for example, tools to help litigants structure their legal arguments, organise their documents, negotiate settlements without advisers, improve access to legal advice as well as systems that will promote open justice and even machine learning solutions that will help analyse all the data generated by the online courts.

We partner with the Senior Centers in our area to provide convient access to legal advice through our free Elder Law Clinics held in all counties.

«Our role is to give people access to legal advice at an affordable price,» White said.

The current misdistribution of legal services and common lack of access to legal advice of any kind requires innovative and aggressive remediation

«People want access to legal advice online and they want that to be offered with complete transparency on cost and scope of service.

Although lawyer mediators usually commit to telling the parties when they are considering a settlement that falls outside the ambit of what a court might decide, this is no substitute for each party having access to legal advice before starting mediation and as needed during it.

If that proves to be right, in the future there will no doubt be a significant detrimental impact upon individuals who are forced to make do with increasingly patchy access to legal advice and representation.

However, for tort lawyer Bill Marler, who specializes in foodborne illness cases, limiting access to legal advice is part of the cause of the tainted milk scandal, not the solution:

Still, the Charter right at stake here exists, in part, to ensure detainees have reasonable access to legal advice in order to rectify the disadvantage they have in preserving the right to silence, and so that they can learn about their legal rights relating to their detention.

Pre-Paid Legal Services offers basic access to legal advice through its network of independent law firms at a cost of $ 15 to $ 25 a month, a rather affordable price considering that just an hour's worth of a lawyer's time can easily run $ 100 or more.

Lawyers cling to arbitrary and restrictive practices which obstruct access to legal advice and representation and add unnecessary cost to the legal process.

This is where Legal Expense Insurance comes into play — not only does it ensure client's covered (see list) & reasonable legal expenses are covered up to policy limits (see list below), but most leading carriers provide unlimited access to legal advice 24/7 helplines and connect clients with a vast legal network to assist in the pursuit of legal action.

The purpose of the right to counsel in Charter s. 10 (b) is to ensure that individuals have access to legal advice when they are deprived of their liberty by agents of the state that leaves them vulnerable to state power while in a position of legal jeopardy.

The right to counsel recognizes the interest of such individuals to have ready access to legal advice; in particular to be advised of their right to remain silent and how to exercise that right.

A draft order making changes to Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code C provisions on access to legal advice has been laid before Parliament and is expected to be debated this week.

Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.

We believe that all entrepreneurs and small business owners should have access to legal advice and protection, in order to give their business the best chance of success.

If you incorporate with us you'll have access to legal advice, but you should also consider hiring other professionals for advice and direction on non-legal issues such as tax and accounting.

More than five million Co-op members have access to legal advice, plus 1.3 million Co-op insurance policyholders.

It may help the government cut spending, but there's a bigger social cost in the long run — the lack of access to legal advice could see an increase in drawn - out courtroom battles, increased acrimony between ex-spouses, and most worryingly, a detrimental impact on children.

Limited funding for initial legal advice could signpost people to other services and, in many cases, avoid them becoming caught up in the system as litigants in person, in itself at much greater cost to the public purse than if people had at least some access to legal advice.

Ensuring that foster for adoption (i.e. when a child is placed with a potential adopter who is an approved foster carer) is not used for voluntary accommodated children given that the parents may not have had access to legal advice and there may have been no court scrutiny or decision that their child should be permanently removed.

However, the government must take into account that many PBCs may not have the capacity, or access to legal advice to ensure that these protections are included in the PBC's constitution to ensure it complies with statutory obligations and traditional law and custom.

Having an attorney that you can consult with gives you access to legal advice specific to you and your goals and will help you to move forward with the mediation.