Sentences with phrase «aid lawyer knows»

Sometimes this person's legal aid lawyer knows the client should not be on legal aid but will say nothing.

Not exact matches

«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

The post notes that legal - aid lawyers «know the knife's edge, working long hours for low pay at organizations that are often underappreciated, underfunded, and undersupplied.»

Legal aid lawyers would also refuse to co-operate with the Crown on matters such as «deals, admissions, agreements — no we don't need that expert and appearances we are not paid for,» says Rankin.

Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.

It is well known that Canadian lawyers have worked to promote access to justice through both legal aid and pro bono work for many years, and this has generally been conducted at a provincial level.

«No matter how much we reform our family law and criminal justice systems — and heaven knows they need substantial reform — the government can't expect LSS to switch from a staff lawyer service model to a private lawyer service model without substantially incentivizing the private bar to take on legal aid files.»

The rates of pay available under legal aid discourage many lawyer mediators from participating in the legally aided mediation system, the effect of which is not yet known.

Behind the scenes, this programmed with a series of questions, there's a logic tree, so depending on what the person's legal problem is, it'll ask a series of questions and those are all vetted with legal aid lawyers, and also ask questions about their income and where they live, which they can answer not, but answering those questions will, at the end of that, I don't know if you followed it out to the end, but it produces a little customized page of, «These are resources you should be looking at.

But before leaving the category of proceedings into which magistrates» court child support work falls: for the Legal Services Commission if a lawyer should seek legal aid for his client in committal proceedings (CSA 1991 s 39A — 40) it is treated as «criminal proceedings» under Access to Justice Act 1999, s 12 (2)(g) and Criminal Defence Service (General)(No 2) Regulations (SI 2001/1437) by application on CDS14 and CDS15.

The lawyers are no longer withdrawing their services.Justice Minister Suzanne Anton issued a statement Friday saying she's looking forward to meeting with legal aid lawyers.

Practice aids: From the data analysis and research, four top areas of claims were identified: poor lawyer / client communication, conflicts of interest, failure to know or apply law, and missed deadlines / procrastination.

But part of what's driving Rowbotham applications is also LAO's reluctance to grant change of solicitor requests when an accused no longer wishes to be represented by their legal aid lawyer, says Robichaud.

I know many Legal Aid lawyers, and I don't think any of them would characterize their jobs in that way.

If you record with no legal aid, as well as the trustee designated for your situation follows - up to be able to verify the statements you produced in your files by seeking extra information, a bankruptcy lawyer could be a useful source who knows precisely what data the court needs.

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Sadly, the Mansfield definition now needs to be updated in light of the government's ferocious onslaught on legal aid that effectively removed social welfare and most of family law from the scheme («the increasing section of the public too poor to afford a lawyer, not poor enough to qualify for legal aid and for whom legal aid is no longer available»).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

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In Scotland, as legal aid lawyers serving private clients with criminal defence, we can see ourselves that the high - street law firm is no longer the same as it was twenty years ago.

In contrast, a legal aid clinic or non-profit often can't afford to train a new call or need someone who already knows the ropes (which is why they tend to hire more established lawyers).

As you know, only a small portion of the total population who can not afford lawyers (see prior post) is poor enough to be eligible for Legal Aid; and, of course, only a relatively small percentage of the eligible actually get a lawyer from Legal Aid.