Sentences with phrase «access to legal aid»

The shadow health secretary will announce plans to reverse the decline in access to legal aid for the low paid.

In fact, the right to a fair trial demands that those who are charged with a crime and who can not afford a lawyer be provided with access to legal aid.

In our view, the potential for increasing access to legal aid through legal tech is limitless.

The results are evident in court delays, the ever increasing number of self - represented litigants, increasing restrictions on access to legal aid, and a myriad of unresolved civil disputes in this country.

I will try to obtain, through the Coroners and Justice Bill, greater access to legal aid so that bereaved families can secure the same access to legal representation often enjoyed by those responsible for the death.

Vulnerable people are to be offered better access to legal aid after the Legal Service Commission (LSC) has decided to buy more than 40,000 extra cases of face - to - face civil legal aid.

Ministers affirmed their commitment to a responsive, fair, efficient and accessible justice system which includes access to legal aid and referenced the common statement of principles approved in October 2010.

Uber has set aside $ 3 million for a legal - defense fund to support drivers, offering help with translation services and round - the - clock telephone access to legal aid.

introduce a compensation scheme for patients when things have gone wrong as a consequence of contracting avoidable healthcare infections, giving access to legal aid

Labour does not offer a great deal more, focused primarily on low - cost initiatives and on changing mindsets, although the party does also offer a National Refuge Fund and wider access to Legal Aid for victims of domestic violence.

Ensure access to legal aid Alicia McCormick served four years in the Coast Guard, including time on the icebreaker Polar Star.

The initial tender exercise failed to find any successful bidders in two whole areas of law — education and discrimination — and leaves many areas of the country without meaningful access to legal aid in other areas.

It is committed to ensuring that low income people have access to legal aid when they have civil (non-criminal) matters.

The Justice Committee has undertaken a study of Access to the Justice System, and is considering issues such as access to legal aid, the resurrection of the Court Challenges Program, delays in the justice system, and the Minister of Justice's obligation to ensure that new legislation upholds constitutionally protected rights and freedoms.

Funding isn't the most relevant of points unless it is to point out that access to legal aid involves a victim narrative creating a pattern of abuser / abused that is often far from the truth.

The results are evident in court delays, the ever increasing number of self - represented litigants, increasing restrictions on access to legal aid, and a myriad of unresolved civil disputes in... [more]

He will appoint a commission, to be co-chaired by the shadow attorney general, Lord Bach, and the former chief executive of a local Citizens Advice Bureau, Yvonne Fovargue MP to advise on improving access to legal aid.

After analyzing FTC complaints from different areas, he concluded that complaints tend to be higher where people have greater access to legal aid, as well as places where more Hispanic families receive food stamps.

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

«Thanks to the Ontario government's move to increase access to legal aid, Legal Aid Ontario can invest in new services for low - income people,» said John McCamus, chairman of LAO.

Solutions must come from us, within the legal profession or else we will wait while Ministers continue to «affirm their commitment» to an accessible justice system which includes access to legal aid.

If the test comes in to have access to legal aid for civil and family cases a person will have to prove that:

Only a few weeks after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the McLibel two suffered from not having access to legal aid, a new judgement has also questioned the system.

Access to legal aid is reserved only for the very poorest, while the private bar is reserved only for the very richest, leaving the vast majority out in the cold facing not only exclusion from the justice system based on finances, but also based on knowledge given the complexity of the legal system and the inherent difficulties of self - representation.

This figure is still exceptionally low and still leaves many people living at or near the poverty line with no access to legal aid.

Recommendations At the heart of the TUC's report is its call on the Government to ensure that access to legal aid is based on need and enables people to enforce their right to justice.

As the House of Lords is scheduled to vote on the Government's proposals for a residence test for access to legal aid, Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE considers today's judgment of the Divisional Court in PLP v Secretary of State for Justice.

In London, our lawyers provide weekly advice clinics at community law centers, assisting local people who may not otherwise have access to legal aid.

The TUC recommended that the government should ensure that access to legal aid is based on need and should carry out immediate and in - depth assessments of the impacts of budget cuts, LASPO and reforms to court services on access to justice.

They fought hard for our people to have access to legal aid, housing, health, and education.