Sentences with phrase «aid lawyers turned»
Shortly before polling day legal aid lawyers turned up outside the Ministry of Justice for a «farewell to Chris Grayling» party.
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Turning the table on her alleged tormentor, she knocks him unconscious, ties him to a chair, and puts him on trial with the confused aid of Gerardo, a prominent lawyer who, coincidentally enough, has recently been named to head a commission on human rights violations during the previous government.
Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.
Marlen Suyapa Bodden was working at the Legal Aid Society in New York when she stumbled upon the story that would turn her from a lawyer to a novelist.
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.
-LSB-...] Even those living in poverty, who are eligible for civil legal aid, often are unable to obtain assistance: the Legal Services Corporation estimated that in 2009, half of those seeking assistance from LSC - funded services were turned away -LSB-...] As for pro bono work: American lawyers average about 30 hours of pro bono work per year.
With «legal aid» these days meaning a lawyer who helps ladies across the road, there must be more than an evens chance that each time you turn up at court, your opponent will be unrepresented.
According to the Ottawa Citizen, lawyers from the Children's Aid Society and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario turned up for the hearing, which concerned the release of hospital records.
The Chicago truck accident lawyers with Staver Law Group recently aided a man after a commercial vehicle attempted to make a wide left turn, but struck his car, which was lawfully stopped at a red light in the lane behind the crosswalk.
«V has been referred to many lawyers who turn down her file because they have too heavy a workload, the file is too complicated and legal aid does not pay them enough.»
Tennessee lawyers and legal aid programs are turning to technological innovation to help meet this need.
Anand, a former legal aid staff lawyer and Crown counsel, points to a concern of so - called «dump trucks» — lawyers who take on as many legal aid cases as possible and deal away the matters to turn a profit.