Sentences with phrase «aid reforms»

Legal Aid reforms in the single family court have further implications for family lawyers and their clients.

There's been some controversy surrounding the issue of combining student aid reform with the seemingly unrelated matter of health care reform.

Does the government's new schedule for legal aid reform provide hope or just delay?

Notably the 1998 reforms were also accompanied by legal aid reform.

«We are continuing to work towards implementation of various elements of the legal aid reform programme in October as planned.

Ed Stradling's exclusive mini-documentary on what he finds to be the dangers of legal aid reform proposals.

Ensuring there is fair access to the family justice system: The legal aid reforms created by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) have had a severe impact on the ability of vulnerable people to access family justice.

Through these efforts, the consortium will share, validate, and refine its RADD II recommendations to improve postsecondary data in support of broader financial aid reform goals and to offer additional policy opportunities.

Dynarski has consulted broadly on student aid reform across federal government agencies, and has testified about education and tax policy before the US Senate Finance Committee, the US House Ways and Means Committee and the President's Commission on Tax Reform.

The breadth and reach of the LASPO reforms mean that a meaningful estimate would require isolating the impact of the legal aid reforms from a number of other departmental policies, such as reforms to family justice and tribunal fees, policies from other government departments, such as changes to the benefits system, and wider societal trends, such as divorce rates or possession claims.

A minority of respondents felt that men can be more adversely affected by legal aid reforms because they are less likely to qualify for legal aid now; private family law was singled out as an area were men may be marginalised, particularly in disputes over contact with children.

The LSC's own impact study on legal aid reforms indicates that there already has been a substantial reduction in many firms» incomes.

Legal aid reforms for criminal work that were to be implemented between 15 October 2007 and 1 January 2008 will now be incorporated into the criminal contract to be introduced on 14 January 2008.

Link to EDM 537 Legal Aid Reform Link to progress on the Legal Services Bill

In introducing LASPO the Government agreed to review each policy between three and five years after implementation date together with «a wider review of the entire package of Legal Aid Reform policies implemented following the June 2011 Legal Aid consultation».

The government announced: «We plan to begin these discussions in early 2013 once the key components of our legal aid reform package, the regulatory changes allowing alternative business structures, and the introduction of the quality assurance scheme for advocates have had time to bed down.»

Ken Clarke in the recent Green Paper on legal aid reform [PDF] claims that people should not resort to legal professionals to resolve disputes.

For those following the legal aid reforms debate in the UK, another article from the BBC that looks at the ramifications of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act which took many civil cases out of the scope of legal aid in April 2013.

The latest Legal Problem and Resolution Survey was conducted in 2014 - 15, a year after the legal aid reforms introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) and Jackson reforms to fee and insurance arrangements.

The line trotted out by justice ministers and their press officers to justify the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), as well as the legal aid reforms under New Labour, has been that we have the most expensive legal aid system in the world.

He says: «The government's legal aid reforms mean the number of family lawyers available to represent the most disadvantaged families is in decline.»

«The legal aid reform process is being run in a way that would shame a banana republic and discredits the LSC.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

Whilst this related to the unified civil contract, the same principles apply to the general criminal contract and the General Criminal Contract was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced and providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

Long encouraged policymakers, considering financial aid reform, to pay close attention to «the documented needs of students, simplifying the design of aid programs and [the] financial aid application, and focusing on grant programs [rather] than less effective and more complicated forms of aid, like tax credits and student loans.»

The LSC told the committee that there were 11 consultations on the present criminal legal aid reform proposals, seven on civil legal aid and one cross-cutting consultation.

The legal aid reforms created by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) have had a severe impact on the ability of vulnerable people to access family justice since they came into effect on 1 April 2013.

An MoJ spokesman said: «As we have already made clear, we are committed to having a review of the legal aid reforms in LASPO.

It says that, unlike the civil unified contract, the general criminal contract (GCC) was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced, therefore providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

The high court has ruled Grayling's legal aid reforms to be illegal, in a devastating blow for the justice secretary

Fresh legal aid reforms are setting up a «fundamentally flawed» system where «price trumps all», barristers have warned.

It's yet another nail in the coffin for Chris Grayling's misguided, destructive and shambolic legal aid reforms.

Despite the contrasting styles and perspectives, there's some common ground between the two that could inform future financial - aid reform.

March 9 Student Leaders Call For Better Teacher Evaluations, Financial Aid Reform, And A More Efficient Higher Education System Students represent delegations back home on Florida education reform

Key higher education policy debates surrounding financial aid reform, student debt management and loan forgiveness, and the academic and social experiences of first - generation and undocumented students in college have much to gain from school and college counselors who have worked with students on the ground.

Amnesty International say legal aid cuts have created two - tier justice that leaves the poorest and most vulnerable out in the cold, by Emma Fitzsimons Amnesty International has released a blistering attack on the Government's legal aid reforms, which has led to the creation of a two - tier justice system that is increasingly closed to the most vulnerable and those in need of protection.

«Some people have blamed the shrinking PI market but the Jackson reforms do not come in until April, and the legal aid reforms have not yet been fully implemented.

This proposal surfaced in a new discussion paper called Legal Aid and the Public Interest (which accused the government of having «lost its way» over legal aid reform).

Kings College have published a report Unintended Consequences: the cost of the Government's Legal Aid Reforms, analysing the knock - on costs to the forthcoming legal aid cuts.

· A further challenge to the government's criminal legal aid reforms has been brought by the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA) and the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA).

Still to be tackled is legal aid reform.

In view of this comprehensive change programme, it's important to emphasise that the recently announced Magee Review will be looking at the way legal aid is delivered and not the legal aid reform programme.

«The Government still failed to recognise the fundamental flaws in its proposals for legal aid reform.

Legal Aid reform is controversial but necessary: «The reaction from the legal profession will be hysterical.

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The Constitutional Affairs Committee Evidence 20th February on Legal Aid reforms — See what the Head of Legal Services Commission has to say on the implementation of the Carter Proposals.

As a separate measure to the wider programme of legal aid reform as set out in «Legal Aid Reform: The Way Ahead» the financial eligibility limits for legal aid for domestic violence victims will be raised and both income and capital limits will be able to waived, by the LSC, on a discretionary basis from 9 April 2007.