Sentences with phrase «between legal aid societies»
The book describes a period of tremendous fighting between legal aid societies (professional male lawyers) and social service organizations (women lay lawyers or social workers).
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«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.
It concludes that expenditure could fall by between # 20 # 111m and also argues that further savings could also accrue from efficiencies in the criminal justice system (see Forecasting Criminal Legal Aid Expenditure: 2017 update — a report for The Law Society, Oxford Economics, January 2017).
At the law society's annual general meeting on Thursday, the Criminal Trial Lawyers» Association will move a motion seeking a statute - based framework for Legal Aid Alberta rather than the current governance agreement between the government and the regulator.
The practice area has been developed through a collaboration between Prisoners» Legal Services of New York, the Prisoners» Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of New York, the Illinois Institute for Community Law, with assistance from the law firms of Mayer Brown, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
93 The relationship between a lawyer who provides legal aid services and the individual who is receiving those services is the customary solicitor - client relationship, whether the legal aid services are provided pursuant to a certificate, in a legal aid services staff office, clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation or by any other method under this Act.
(2) All legal communications between a lawyer, student or service - provider at a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation, or any other member, officer or employee of a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation and an applicant for legal aid services are privileged in the same manner and to the same extent as solicitor - client communications.