The reforms and cuts to legal aid are huge concerns facing all family lawyers and it is therefore so important that we continue to use our collective voices to ensure that families and in particular children all have
access to legal representation if and when needed».
These vulnerable litigants must have greater
access to legal representation if we are to achieve our constitutional mission of fostering equal justice for all, rich and poor alike.
Not exact matches
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.
She concludes that everyone would benefit
if these parties had
access to legal representation — in some form.
Yes, clients are entitled
to have
access to legal representation even
if the client is an infamous mass murderer.
In other words,
if you have a lawyer then you have a lawyer, and there is no relevant difference in terms of
access to justice or the satisfaction of the accused's rights that could arise from the quality of that lawyer or her
legal representation.
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.
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.
If you require
legal representation — either
to deal with property issues arising from your divorce, or assist with child custody /
access issues and / or child support or spousal support issues — our skillful family law lawyers will provide you with knowledgeable
legal counsel while protecting your best interests.
Poor people have much more
access to legal representation and less
to lose
if they do lose,