Sentences with phrase «aid cut decisions»

Our members have appeared in many of the leading cases in this area, from the swaps litigation of the 1990s, through the claims arising out the collapse of the Icelandic banking system, to current challenges to Government sanctions and legal aid cut decisions.

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Thereby human rights terminology has often been used to justify decisions to provide aid or to terminate it; while human rights criteria - to the extent that there is such a thing in the aid policy of any donor - have been confined to the search for those human rights violations which could justify cutting off aid.

The Ben & Jerry's decision, unless (as my NMS colleague Soren Dayton pointed out) it's being driven by some kind of U.K. - specific restrictions that make email marketing less effective, seems to reflect one of two things: either a bean - counter followed the instinct to cut costs in the short term regardless of the long - term consequences, or a marketing executive took a big drink of the social media Kool Aid.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

Andrew Mitchell underwent his first public appearance since he resigned as chief whip today, when he appeared before MPs to explain his decision to reverse an aid cut to Rwanda.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Major decisions could take place during the lame duck Congress in November or December, potentially resulting in the loss of millions of jobs and massive cuts to health care, education, aid to state and local governments, and other vital programs.

In addition to scrapping the Common Core, Hawkins would improve schools by restoring aid cut during the state's economic downturn, encouraging desegregation through voluntary interdistrict transfers and returning curriculum decisions to local school boards.

President Donald Trump's decision to cut aid to Pakistan was long overdue.

He said any decision to make further cuts to the foreign aid budget would not require parliamentary approval.

The US Department of Education's decision to revisit the gainful employment regulations that would cut off federal aid to career training programs where students take on large debts relative to their income has been generally cheered by the right and criticized by the left.

At a forum on «Key Wisconsin Education Issues as Big Decisions Approach» held Monday at the Marquette University Law School, Bob Borch and Scott Grella of PMA Financial, a consulting firm that works on school finance with districts around the state, provided the audience with an update on what the future of the «Fairly Normal» school district would look like with a $ 150 per pupil aid cut.

To illustrate Connecticut's irrational system, Moukawsher cited the legislature's decision last session to cut school aid for poor districts while providing more aid for wealthy districts.

Amjid Jabbar, Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors, discusses Gove's decision to end planned cuts to legal aid for The Barrister.

The decision to halt a multi-million pound land fraud trial due to legal aid cuts leaving the defence without barristers has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

There have been a number of developments since our first report was published including the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum salary and legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPaid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPAid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

Simon Creighton spoke candidly on the impact the cuts have had on the quality and quantity of prison advice services over the last few years following the decision of former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling to remove legal aid assistance in nearly all Prison Law cases.

«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.

The event, The Citizen and the State: Poor decision - making and the role of the pro bono Bar, considered the extent of poor decision - making by state bodies which forced members of the public to appeal decisions about their entitlement to benefits and other rights, to the courts, often without legal representation due to legal aid cuts.

Guardian editorial, Public Spending: Banned aid: «Mr Clarke's sensible decision to continue to give legal aid in inquests, in asylum cases and in judicial reviews, to discover that the speed and severity of the cuts announced yesterday will once again disproportionately hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

Meanwhile, discussions about the future of criminal legal aid continued following the government's decision to abandon two tier contracts and suspend the second 8.75 % fee cut.

If the Government's decision is to cut back legal aid to the extent indicated in its Consultation Response dated June 2011, then so be it, although I regret the decision for the reasons mentioned above.

Acted for the Claimants / Appellants in their challenge to the Lord Chancellor's decision to cut by two - thirds the number of criminal legal aid contracts for duty provider work.

Giving the lead judgment, Lord Sumption acknowledged that although litigants in person are often representing themselves through no choice of their own due to the well - publicised stringent cuts in legal aid over the last eight years, whilst the Court may be able to make allowances in respect of case management decisions, a lower standard of compliance with Civil Procedure Rules or Orders of the Court could not be justified.

I made a decision to cut out some of the activities that were not contributing positively to my financial freedom e.g. I hardly watch TV and instead read motivation books or listen to audio (aids sleeping too), I stopped drinking completely, I only buy items that I need, I pack my lunch or snacks to work and don't have to buy things that I already have at home - this contributed significantly to my health and wellness, I invested in some basic gym equipment and do some exercises at home regularly (stretching, walking, jogging, skipping and a bit of weight lifting) don't have to pay to go to gym and coupled that with running a marathon once or twice a year (for charity and my well - being).