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.
Not exact matches
LONDON, May 3 - Ukraine's new corruption court, whose creation is a key condition set by Western
aid donors, should be ready to hear its first
cases early
next year, General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said.
In the
next month or so, ARC will begin offering
case management services for Medicaid eligible individuals who don't necessarily have
AIDS, but who have any chronic health issue.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has videotaped a talk for an
AIDS conference in Spain
next week in
case the shutdown prevents him from attending.
Reports to the World Health Organization suggest that at least five million people worldwide are infected by the
AIDS virus and a million new
cases of
AIDS are likely within the
next five years
Uncertainty over federal funding is leading many local and state officials to use worst -
case scenarios to plan
next year's school budgets, anticipating at least a 17 percent cut in federal
aid.
Human First
Aid: A human first aid kit should be available next to the kennel, plus instructions printed and laminated in case of emergen
Aid: A human first
aid kit should be available next to the kennel, plus instructions printed and laminated in case of emergen
aid kit should be available
next to the kennel, plus instructions printed and laminated in
case of emergency.
This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion
aid to Taiwan in
next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a
case for term limits, doesn't it.
Phil Rankin, co-chairman of the Trail Lawyers Association of B.C.'s legal
aid action committee is recommending that legal
aid lawyers withdraw from handling any of the Vancouver riot
cases as the
next step in what is now a four - month battle to increase provincial legal
aid funding.
In some
cases, for example, helping one client at a time makes a difference for that person but it doesn't really alter the system, or only representing the poorest of the poor, not to say somebody is higher or lower priority, but if you think about your landlord clients, for example, they're not the poorest of the poor but they've crawled out of legal
aid eligibility only to be told, «Now here's a giant expense that you need to undertake to move to the
next level.»