Sentences with phrase «aid lawyers withdraw»
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.
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Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.
A second longer - term recommendation to go before the association's board of governors would see the legal aid lawyers in the province withdraw duty counsel services completely.
Last November, B.C.'s legal aid lawyers started an escalating job action that saw duty counsel services withdrawn at 50 courthouses for increasingly longer periods over each of the four months.
Duty counsel in British Columbia will take collective job action against the B.C. government starting in January and completely withdraw services after April from a system described by B.C. Trial Lawyers Association's legal aid committee co-chairman Phil Rankin as suffering from «atrophication that has been happening slowly like dementia» from continuous funding cuts.
In Cunningham, solicitor - client privilege addressed a situation in which the lawyer had a dispute with his client when the lawyer tried to withdraw a legal aid case.
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.