Sentences with phrase «aid scheme»

We are committed to ensuring that the criminal legal aid scheme of the future continues to protect people's fundamental right to a defence.

Medical Aid schemes differ in payment restrictions and benefits.

Scottish milk producers are at risk of missing out on European support funds if they don't apply for a dairy aid scheme before the end of the month.

If you wish to donate using the gift aid scheme please use the form attached.

They would advocate for governments to provide better - funded and wider - scope legal aid schemes, more user - friendly court processes and technological innovation in the administration of justice.

Lesser comments:» Beyond the subject matters already on the table, during the upcoming 12 months, EGDF will focus on such as building a coherent copyright regulation for the European single market area, supporting its members on building state aid schemes for game development on national levels as well as ensuring that the free trade agreement between the USA and the EU has no negative side - effects on the growth of the European studios, in particular when it comes to patents.»

Inevitably, the media spotlight was distracted from «access to justice» on the day the Bill, the biggest rolling back of the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was published.

Emergency legal aid schemes for people faced with repossession are to be created in an additional 20 county courts, the Legal Services Commission has announced.

These are all vital amendments that will assist vulnerable clients; but it is also fair to say that they will do little to soften the blow of an Act that will essentially fillet the legal aid scheme by removing # 350m from a total budget of # 2.2 bn.

Pending the introduction of new legal aid schemes in October 2007 — assuming there are not too many marches in the meantime — the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration)(Amendment) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/742), which came into force on 2 April 2007 harmonise solicitors» pay for private law cases between the county court and the Family Proceedings Court (FPC), and will also cover domestic violence cases.

Legal Voice reported on the statistics demonstrating the ongoing shrinkage of the civil legal aid scheme here.

Sustainable Energy Ireland's House of Tomorrow grant aid scheme has been successful in driving up standards in Irish residential building.

Patients should verify these with their Medical Aid scheme prior to admission as the hospital can not accept responsibility for charges levied which fall outside of their scale of benefits.

Civil and family legal aid firms have nearly halved in number since 2007/08, for example, although they shrunk by almost a further quarter in the last year, and the number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme reduced by almost two - thirds in the last four years.

Both of these government - aided schemes need the individual's Aadhar card to get her / his account opened.

This month marks the three - year anniversary of the implementation of the most swingeing cuts to the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in 1949.

In order to access legal advice and assistance under the Legal Aid scheme on matters in relation to SEN, there is now a mandatory telephone gateway and individuals must telephone Civil Legal Advice on 0845 345 4345 or use the online enquiry form.

Prior to starting pupillage, she spent a year helping to set up a legal aid scheme in Kenya, which has operated successfully ever since.

Participants will map the situation of state aid instruments being drawn up in Europe presently and share knowledge on building state aid schemes for the games industry as well as experiences in lobbying the issue:

The more sinister reason is: that which can be given by politicians can be taken away by them (like adjustments to the legal aid scheme by the dire Mr Grayling or the Tory NHS).

All family cases are to be scrapped under the legal aid scheme unless there is evidence of domestic violence.

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This April will mark the fifth anniversary of the biggest cuts to the legal aid scheme in the UK since it was introduced after the Second World War.

Members of the public wanting advice on debt, discrimination, and education cases under the legal aid scheme have to use the service.

We therefore intend to publish an eight week consultation on further reforms to legal aid in April 2013, which will include proposals to both improve the credibility of the legal aid scheme and reduce its cost to the taxpayer — one of these being price competition in criminal legal aid.The revised indicative timetable for the development and implementation of our competition strategy is, subject to the outcome of consultation, as follows:

How does the promise of ODR shape up in an age which is distinctly one of austerity and where, in England and Wales, the heart has been torn out of a once impressive civil legal aid scheme?

We also have a public funding contract and therefore we may be able to advise and assist you under the legal aid scheme.

One of the big ideas of the coalition is to have a «single gateway» or a «simple, straightforward» telephone service to whatever remains of this post-cuts legal aid scheme.

According to the AG, the GC's reliance on its own judgment in SIDE is especially deficient as that judgment's reasoning was actually rejected by the CJEU in Diputación Foral de Vizcaya and Others v Commission, where the Court stated that «a Member State which has not notified an aid scheme to the Commission can not reasonably expect that that scheme will be assessed in the light of the rules applicable at the time of its adoption.»

«It's no surprise as the cuts bite, law firms pull out of what remains of the legal aid scheme, not - for - profit advice agencies go to the wall, and then there is the maddening bureaucracy of legal aid,» Robins writes.

People with common civil legal problems, such as difficulties in claiming the benefits they are entitled to, coping with debts or, with problems at work, have nowhere to turn since these cases were cut from the scope of the legal aid scheme.

Growth was stopped in its tracks and we lost about 5 % of potential output from 2010 to 2012 — an irretrievable loss of # 90bn, enough to pay for 270 civil legal aid schemes.

On the government's own figures there were 53,800 cases last year where people received representation before the courts under the legal aid scheme — plus a further 211,000 family cases where people received initial advice and assistance.

These awards highlight the life - changing work that these lawyers do, day in, day out, and also just what would be lost if the government goes ahead with its ill - considered reforms to the legal aid scheme.»

Fixed and graduated fees in all major elements of the legal aid scheme are still planned, but the LSC has agreed to phase in the introduction of some elements of the new fixed fees for family legal aid work.

In its 60th year, the legal aid scheme, in common with the rest of the public sector, has to live within its means.

The number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme had collapsed by almost two - thirds over the last four years.

Actually, it's no surprise as the cuts bite, law firms pull out of what remains of the legal aid scheme, not - for - profit advice agencies go to the wall, and then there is the maddening bureaucracy of legal aid.

Amnesty shine an unforgiving light on the unprincipled and reckless approach of the coalition government to the biggest retreat in the legal aid scheme since it was set up.

But some have also expressed relief that the criminal legal aid scheme has been left largely untouched, as have funding for inquests, judicial reviews and asylum cases.