Sentences with phrase «access to legal representation even»
Yes, clients are entitled to have access to legal representation even if the client is an infamous mass murderer.
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He promised to create a public - private partnership with law firms so new immigrants can access legal representation even if they can't afford it.
The test will exclude many people from access to legal help and representation in civil and family cases, including children who have been in the UK for a number of years, victims of trafficking, and even British nationals (unless they can show that they have lived here for at least a year).
Today legal aid representation in family law cases is only available where there is actual or threatened family violence, or to resolve the serious denial of access to children — even for people whose low income would otherwise make them eligible for assistance.
I do want to give you one example though, which is at the Rise Women's Legal Centre we've had clients come in with literally suitcases full of documents from over a decade of not having a lawyer and what means is that something that could have been resolved fairly simply at the front end, if they had been able to access even summary advice at the beginning, let alone some minimal representation, they might have had their family law issues resolved much earlier.
oday legal aid representation in family law cases is only available where there is actual or threatened family violence, or to resolve the serious denial of access to children — even for people whose low income would otherwise make them eligible for assistance.
Even the legal services community who for years has called for only full service representation for all is now starting to promote unbundling as one of the major ways we can improve access to justice in our country.
Reading about AI on a daily basis is frustrating when there are so many unmet needs of lawyers and we haven't even scratched the surface of helping people who don't have basic access to justice and who can't get representation because of exorbitant legal fees that amount to a person's paycheck.