Sentences with phrase «aid case work»

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Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

To work with S.T.O.P. DWI by providing monthly statistics and case dispositions to aid them with fine tracking.

He currently serves on the boards of the National Minority AIDS Council, the Network for Social Work Management, and iHealth, a statewide collaborative of community - based organizations united to advocate and negotiate on behalf of HIV targeted case management programs.

She described the case of Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s HIV / AIDS program, where Cowal worked after leaving the U.S. Foreign Service.

Although publishing in specialty or subspecialty journals may not aid your case as much as papers that are published in higher impact journals will, it does help in terms of promotion, as long as the sum total of your published work influences your field.

A case in point: the Arara people, who had been called the scourge of the Trans?amazônica Highway for their attacks on work crews but today live as poor peasants fully dependent on federal aid.

It is a traditionally used herbal medicine that works as a sleep aid in cases of restlessness or insomnia due to mental stress.

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Early in his career, Steven sought ground - level experiences, working as an HIV / AIDS prevention educator for adolescents, case manager for recently arrived gay and bisexual Latino immigrants, and volunteer associate director at the Brazilian Rainbow Group.

If that's the case, you need to work with the student loan aid company to stop work and stop payments.

Leadership skills and competency to take personal responsibility for cases, as well as aiding in the direction of other staff members to ensure efficiency, a productive work flow, and excellent patient care and client satisfaction are expected.

Saving Animals During Disasters works with a network of generous individual supporters and corporate sponsors to provide emergency aid in the form of food, medicine, intervention, and veterinary care in cases where immediate action means the difference between life and death for animals with no other means of help.

As a result of the chaos we endured over that period of time, they (and most farmers) were forced out of the country to start - up else where... now... 10 years down the line, and with much forgiveness, my father has moved back to our beloved country and is in the process of starting to a project to provide Zimbabweans with fresh / or in most cases ANY water and has been working with local aid companies to help provide funds to build water tanks.

The catch: the focus will not be gay men working during the height of the AIDS crisis, as is often the case with surveys of this kind.

From a number of acute cases in 2017 (wildfires in Canada, Portugal, and Chile) he showed exactly how the system works in real situations, which ultimately provides invaluable information which can be used by media, aid workers and the general public as a whole, in near real time.

While court proceedings can be expensive, it is reassuring for clients to know that Legal Aid funding is available for these most severe cases, and Moore Blatch hold a contract with the Legal Aid Agency for this type of work.

- In judicial review cases, legal aid will only be paid for the work carried out if the High Court grants permission for the case to proceed.

The way that lawyers are using social media to aid their work and boost their careers has accelerated in recent years — many firms and individual lawyers are actively embracing social media to market themselves, for client development and even for case investigation.

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Judges and Crowns too have plenty of opportunities to make legal aid work financially non-viable for defence lawyers — as in this case — again with taxpayers probably unaware.

With respect to legal aid, professional lawyers, in nearly all cases men, created legal aid societies which worked to progressively take over the legal work done by the women's social services organizations.

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

Legal Aid Center works with the volunteer attorney at the outset of the representation to ensure he or she has sufficient guidance and / or supervision to competently handle the case.

The Ministry of Justice have just announced a further cuts to criminal legal aid for work undertaken on the most serious cases.

The use of technology - aided tools, as well as the information provided therein, can help overcome the complexity of core international crime cases by providing knowledge directly to national practitioners, within their work environment, on a permanent basis.

For example, legal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid cases.

In June 2017, a Law Society practice note reminded legal aid defence solicitors that they can exercise discretion when deciding to accept cases if the work threatens the viability of their firm.

His competition law work covers the full spectrum of competition law (merger control, cartel investigations, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominance, litigation / damages cases, compliance programs and training, public procurement and state aid) across a wide range of industries.

He pointed to the case of Charlie Gard, in which his parents had to rely on lawyers working pro bono to represent them as they did not qualify for legal aid, but the scale of the failures of the civil legal aid are much greater than this one high profile tragic case.

Therefore LAO LAW's staff is now smaller, and works by a different strategy of emphasizing its very large catalogue of memoranda and draft pleadings and other support services, all available for free download by lawyers who service legal aid cases.

Working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hartigan and Haller were already representing tenants in eviction cases when they began to realize fewer than half these cases make it to court.

Five years later, she moved to Prince Rupert where she continued her commitment to low - income people by taking legal aid cases throughout northern BC and by working with anti-poverty organizations.

Marie is proud to work within the publicly funded Bar and to accept instructions in legal aid cases.

LAO's chair, John McCamus, notes that legal aid clinics in Ontario offer public legal education, community development and law reform as well as individual case work.

«Fair Work Center is already supporting workers to address these challenges, but this new clinic means workers now have a place to turn to when they need legal aid, whether that is in filing a claim with a government enforcement agency or representing them in a court case against their employer.»

John has been working in the legal aid world for over 30 years and has specialised in housing and related cases for over 20 years.

At the beginning of every summer, a local legal aid organization presents an in - office training program and then pairs interested summer associates with firm attorneys to work on available pro bono cases.

We have working relationships with experts in police pursuit cases and are very familiar with producing demonstrative aids for such cases such as helicopter views of the pursuit scene and photographs of key intersections.

(para 119) ``... We agree that remuneration solely on the basis of time spent on a case is a disincentive to dealing with cases efficiently...» (para 120) However, fairness in remuneration demands that the rate for dealing with a legal aid case... should ideally be based on objective criteria that adequately capture the complexity of cases and allow a more accurate determination of the likely work which a provider has to invest in a case in order to deal with it appropriately.»

It feared that an increase in price for legal aid work would lead to cuts elsewhere in the system, which did not instill much confidence in the government's prospective acceptance of higher case rates where the market would demand them.

The problem areas of the legal aid budget — crown court defence work and child care proceedings — should be addressed swiftly, but the committee said it failed to see the need for «potentially short - sighted transitional arrangements for legal aid remuneration in anticipation of the roll out of competitive tendering from October 2008, where there are already mechanisms for controlling unit costs or where the costs of cases appears to be under control».

The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACT - O) is a new specialty Legal Aid Ontario legal clinic only working on precedent setting cases and research on tenant issues.

As Counsel to the Chief of the Justice Department, he aided in the oversight of more than 100 prosecutors working on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities, health care, and other fraud investigations and cases.

These cases are often taken by lawyers working for free, and by legal aid attorneys in agencies partially funded with taxpayer money.

She has expertise in child abuse cases having worked as in - house counsel at a Children's Aid Society and having represented parents in court on child protection cases.

Since Watson's television debut in 2011, the supercomputer has matured from game show celebrity into professional resource; thanks to the work of students at the University of Toronto, Watson will now aid legal cases, supporting a new law research service named Ross.

June 23, 2014 — «B.C. lawyers are being urged not to work on legal aid cases next month to protest what some legal advocates are calling a chronic underfunding of the system, possibly leading to empty courtrooms.

Importantly, I undertake pro bono work because of my commitment to Legal Aid, and am honoured by occasions where I am appointed Amicus Curiae by the Court to provide them an objective and non-partisan opinion in complex cases.

The government has reduced, or is about to reduce, the remuneration for legal aid cases in criminal and family work to dangerously low levels.

Three - quarters of adults in working households do not have the right to receive legal aid for cases before a magistrates» court, research by the New Policy Institute (NPI) shows.