This is of course far from the truth with
legal aid practitioners working at rates and returns which place substantial economic burden on them to maintain practice.
To
aid practitioners faced with the myriad and often unexpected challenges of navigating a cross-border investigation, this book brings together for the first time the perspectives of leading experts from across the globe.
Finally, legal aid is still breaking new ground in the cases it funds — and that legal
aid practitioners so effectively carry out.
We will continue to support him and harmonise our work with the Law Society to enhance high level representation for legal
aid practitioners in these troubled times.»
Storer says: «It is more important than ever that collectively we take the opportunity of the 2013 LALY awards to recognise the invaluable contribution that legal
aid practitioners make to social justice and the rule of law.»
The mostly legal
aid practitioners gave their overwhelming support to a motion tabled last year by Roger Peach, a solicitor at Southampton law firm Peach Grey & Co..
While aid practitioners might not be consciously malign, «it is definitely in their interest to highlight [the theme of] crisis.»
With the influx of experimental tech courses in law schools across the U.S., we hope that these lessons will
aid practitioners developing similar curricula and complement the larger discussion about the role of technology in legal education.
A legal
aid practitioner attending expressed concern at the suggestion that pro bono could fill the gaps, explaining that lawyers carrying out pro bono work were often lacking the specialist knowledge and time to provide the assistance needed.
LAL gives legal
aid practitioners free access to online services and facilities that normally have to be purchased at considerable cost.
Its problems are depressingly similar to ours: legal
aid practitioners under pressure; strikes and the threat of strikes by practitioners; a government seeking to squeeze resources; pressure on discretionary elements of the budget.
Looking forward, the 2010 civil and criminal legal aid contracts will address flaws and inefficiencies in the existing systems, while defining the relationship we have with legal
aid practitioners until 2013.
Closely linked to the issue of cherry - picking was the risk posed by the Carter reforms to specialist legal
aid practitioners whose cases tended to be more complex.
«I really couldn't believe someone hadn't thought of such a simple solution,» he recalls, noting that the sign
also aids practitioners who work in areas with For Sale sign bans.
hus, Ontario's clinic network appears to have a wider group of friends in its legislature then do legal
aid practitioners in social welfare law in ours.
Yoga Nidra is (1) integrative in that it heals the various separative splits that are present in the body, mind and senses; and (2) restorative in that
it aids its practitioner in recognizing their underlying nondual ground of Being that they share in common with all sentient and insentient objects.
HOW IT WORKS iRest is an accessible and easy to use meditation protocol that is integrative, as it heals unresolved issues and traumas, and restorative, as
it aids practitioners in recognizing their innate wholeness and underlying peace of mind that is always present amidst all changing circumstances in life.
Instead, the Guidelines offer a range of recommendations that will
aid practitioners in making rational decisions on vaccine selection for their individual patients.
Various bar associations, like the Criminal Law Solicitors Association, Criminal Bar Association, London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and Legal
Aid Practitioners» Group all coordinated their actions for this walkout.
A manifesto published by the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group proposes detailed reforms in 16 areas of law, ranging from actions against the state, to crime, to mental health and welfare benefits.
YLAL recently contributed to the annual conference of the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group.
Jenny Beck, co-chair of Legal
Aid Practitioners Group, welcomed the decision, saying that it «will enable efficient and targeted legal advice and representation to be given to those most in need.
The Law Society, Legal
Aid Practitioners Group, Criminal Law Solicitors Association and London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association released a joint position statement on the LGFS consultation, opposing any further cuts to legal aid as a «very real threat to access to justice».
Legal aid lawyers from across the country gathered in Leeds on Friday 7 October for the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) annual conference.
RTR was named a finalist for the 2015 Legal
Aid Practitioners Group's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards, in the category of «Access to Justice through IT.»
Heather provided an update on the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) annual conference on 9 October 2015.
Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal
Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.
The Legal
Aid Practitioners Group is also calling for a halt on moves to reintroduce the «residence test», and wants a new discretion to grant legal aid to ineligible people where there would be an overall saving to the taxpayer.
A Liverpool solicitor described by judges as «like a dog with a bone» in his work on behalf of families of Hillsborough victims has won recognition at Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (LALYs), organised by the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group.
Law Society legal aid manager, Richard Miller, says: «Given the strength of opposition from legal
aid practitioners, we are pleased that the LSC has acknowledged many of the problems posed by BVT and will now give careful consideration to the issues before any further steps to implement it are taken.»
Law Society President Lucy Scott - Moncrieff says: «This and recent similar cases dramatically illustrate the pressures on so many parts of the profession — the obvious pressures on PI and legal
aid practitioners are to the forefront.»
The Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) Annual Conference is only a few weeks away - this year it will be held on Friday 10 October at Herbert Smith Freehills in London.
It is organised jointly by the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) and Young Legal Aid Lawyers.
Many of our fee - earners have supported the campaigning work against the residence test though organisations such as Young Legal Aid Lawyers, the Haldane society and the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group.
YLAL hosted two workshops at the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) Conference on Friday 9 October 2009.
To mark 25 years since the creation of the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group and the 60th anniversary of the Legal Aid Act, LAPG is hosting a special Silver Jubilee Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards ceremony - please come along and celebrate the achievements of legal aid!
This document, prepared by Legal
Aid Practitioners» Group, provides a summary of the three research reports presented to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid in March 2016.
Young Legal Aid Lawyers nominated Gwendolen in recognition of her relentless work promoting and protecting human rights, helping vulnerable clients, and advocating for legal
aid practitioners.
Carol Storer, director of the Legal
Aid Practitioner's Group (LAPG) has called on the government to re-think its plans.
The awards are organised by the Legal
Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG).
Carol Storer, Director of Legal
Aid Practitioners Group said:
Criminal legal
aid practitioners are furious, as most are feeling the impact of the reducing numbers of cases going through the system and can see no justification for the cuts.