Sentences with phrase «by legal aid»

His application for funding by the Legal Aid plan was turned down.

The best way to get help is to attend a free clinic put on by legal aid societies.

Is it restricted to legal disputes presently covered by legal aid?

At the same time, the range of services provided by Legal Aid didn't expand at all.

Where we think a lawyer may know he / she is improperly getting paid by legal aid, we request an inquiry into that also.

Mediation and legal advice to support mediation is already paid for by legal aid for anyone who meets the qualifying criteria.

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

These cases are often taken by lawyers working for free, and by legal aid attorneys in agencies partially funded with taxpayer money.

These opportunities are posted by legal aid organizations and other programs that provide legal services.

My guess is that the volume of need is also expanding such that demand for services supplied by both Legal Aid and Legal Help Centre will continue to exceed the supply of those services.

There has also been a reduction in the number family mediation meetings funded by legal aid, down by 5 %.

There is a very large gap between those who are covered by legal aid, and those who can actually afford a market rate lawyer.

It has been a service provided to Ontario lawyers by Legal Aid Ontario since 1979.

In addition, a judicial review challenge was brought, relying upon allegations of poor training and extreme and unrealistic time pressures which had been made by whistle - blowers who had been employed by the Legal Aid Agency to evaluate tenders.

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.

Criminal courts across England and Wales are due to be thrown into chaos this week by a two - day strike by legal aid lawyers protesting at plans to change pay structures.

[6] It should be obvious to any outside observer that the income thresholds being used by Legal Aid Ontario do not bear any reasonable relationship to what constitutes poverty in this country.

Lawyers employed by Legal Aid Ontario are challenging their employer's refusal to recognize their chosen bargaining agent.

The clinics run by legal aid programs provide short meetings with lawyers, usually ranging from 20 to 30 minutes, and clients are screened for eligibility, always by income and sometimes by issue.

The awards are organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG).

Victims of Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas and their family members are being offered free civil legal help by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada.

A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said Wednesday that an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society against the state, seeking to expand the state FEPS program to include domestic violence victims, is the sticking point in deciding to approve the program's expansion.

Thousands of homeless New Yorkers who get free shelter in apartment complexes throughout the city could be treated as legal tenants — protected by rent regulations and lower rent caps — under a potentially precedent - setting case brought by the Legal Aid Society.

The draft 2015 duty provider contract, published by the Legal Aid Agency last month, remains «one - sided» with «almost all the uncertainty and risk» falling on the provider, the Law Society has warned.

Students may engage in community legal education through one of the student Legal Aid Society's pro bono projects, or they may participate in legal clinics hosted by the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.

The manifest need for courts to grapple seriously with self represented litigants has come rather later in England and Wales than in other comparable jurisdictions because legal aid provided so much representation in family and other civil matters until the cuts introduced by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Legal aid is run by the Legal Aid Agency, funding is available for certain types of cases.

Law Society LASPO Report: the Law Society published its report on the consequences of legal aid cuts made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

The response asserted that controlling costs is not, in and of itself, the goal of the reform programme and that «the aim of improved efficiency and better control over spending is, ultimately, to ensure that more people can be helped by legal aid within the resources available, without any reduction in quality, and in a way that contributes to, and benefits from, improved efficiency in the wider justice systems» (para 33).

This Newsletter publishes a summary analysis of the various approaches to legal aid in the EU countries, a comparative study compiled on the basis of the replies received from the supreme courts by the Legal Aid Office of the French Cour de cassation.

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.

The first half outlined the series of judicial review claims that have been brought over the last two years to challenge the lawfulness of the cuts to legal aid brought about by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, while the second half examined the effect of human rights in individual cases across different areas of law.

TN Free Legal Answers serves vulnerable Tennesseans who can not travel to a legal clinic or who can not be served by legal aid because they are slightly above legal aid's poverty threshold or legal aid does not have the resources to assist them.

In addition, there are details on making the application in Alberta (prepared by Legal Aid Alberta) here.

The pilots aim to integrate and amplify existing efforts by legal aid organizations, courts and other service providers to help more people facing eviction, domestic violence and other civil law issues.

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.

According to the report, about 745,000 applications for legal assistance were received by legal aid plans in the 11 reporting provinces and territories in 2009 - 10, down five per cent from the previous year.

It remains to be seen whether the outcome of the election will have an impact on legal aid policy, but you can read about what the political parties said about legal aid in their election manifestos in this article for The Justice Gap by YLAL co-chair Ollie and this blog post by Legal Aid Handbook.

While some of the information collected by Legal Aid from the Applicant apparently emanated from court files within the terms of section 4 (3)(k), this information does not appear to be part of the information requested by the Applicant in his access request, or at least not in relation to items 2 and 4 of his letter of October 3, 2011, being the items that are of concern to him with respect to the Organization's response.

The Justice Select Committee (JSC) has set up an inquiry into the impact of the changes brought about by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) from 1 April 2013.

CCMS: CCMS, or the «Client and Cost Management System» for civil legal aid applications, was made mandatory by the Legal Aid Agency from 1 April 2016 onwards, despite widespread opposition from the legal profession.

OurKingdom also reported on the rise of litigants in person and alleged that the government is trying to «hide the chaos caused by legal aid cuts».

The APPG on Legal Aid (the Group) was established in July 2009, and is co-sponsored by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) and Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL).

The Lab is led by York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and supported by Legal Aid Ontario and the Ontario Psychological Association.

Complaints about solicitors provided by the Legal Aid Board should be made as per the Legal Aid Board's complaints procedure.

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.

Representing Abused, Abandoned, Neglected Unaccompanied Minors in State Court Proceedings, Continuing Legal Education Pro Bono Seminars held in January, 2003 (co-sponsored by Children & Youth Law Clinic, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center and the American Immigration Lawyers Association; March, 2003 (co-sponsored by FIAC and Holland & Knight); and July, 2003 (co-sponsored by Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Broward Lawyers Care, and FIAC).

Under this approach to legal aid, sometimes referred to as the «judicare» model, services are provided to low - income persons by private lawyers on the basis of certificates issued by the legal aid plan.