Sentences with phrase «access to legal advice when»

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.

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When you are far away from home, you can access the Global Assist hotline to get advice on medical, legal, or other emergency services.

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.

The High Court judge, Mr Justice Francis, said that Parliament can not have intended for legal aid not to be available in such cases: «However, it does seem to me that when Parliament changed the law in relation to legal aid and significantly restricted the availability of legal aid, yet continued to make legal aid available in care cases where the state is seeking orders against parents, it can not have intended that parents in the position that these parents have been in should have no access to legal advice or representation... I am aware that there are many parents around the country in similar positions where their cases have been less public and where they have had to struggle to represent themselves.

But, in these gloomy economic times when young people's (particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds) debts spiral, their advice and support services downsized or removed, and the looming legal aid cuts threaten the closure of the few specialised legal advice services that support them, what is to stop them falling into an even bigger access to justice black hole?

As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.

It seems fundamentally unjust that at a time when they are introducing a ceiling of # 400, and when landlords are going to evict people who can't pay their rent that people will lose access to free legal advice.

The federation's model code of conduct states: «As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.»

Having access to online legal content, as well as document support software will improve productivity and increase accuracy when it comes to drafting documents and providing 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.