Sentences with phrase «by legal aid reform»

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

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.

Not exact matches

It warns that many victims of domestic abuse are failing to meet the restrictive criteria set up by the Legal Aid Agency, under reforms originally brought in by Ken Clarke and now carried through by Chris Grayling.

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.

Those surveyed indicated that women were more affected, or more likely to be potentially adversing affected by reforms to legal aid.

Lord Justice Jackson, architect of the far - reaching costs and case management reforms introduced in April 2013 by LASPO (the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), retired this month.

The reforms under LASPO recognised the cost effectiveness of mediation, by making legal aid available, although income and capital limits for eligibility mean many couples, particularly in areas where house prices are high, are not eligible.

Per an investigation by The Guardian, the net effect of regulatory reform in the U.K. has actually reduced access to justice, as part of the reforms included substantial cut backs in government funded legal aid programs.

More recently further legal aid cuts have been proposed by the Government: see «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September legal aid cuts have been proposed by the Government: see «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September 20aid cuts have been proposed by the Government: see «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September 20Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September 20Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September 2013.

In our latest regular column for Legal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent yLegal Action magazine, YLAL co-chairs Ollie and Rachel wrote about the common ground between legal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent ylegal aid lawyers, teachers and doctors, all professions providing a public service which have opposed damaging cuts and reforms imposed by the government in recent years.

The government has repeatedly said it will carry out a review to assess the full impact of the reforms and cuts to legal aid introduced by LASPO after three years.

That starts by excluding the cases that do not, by not taking those files on to begin with (including denial of legal aid), refraining from inflammatory conduct when we do take them on, and in reforming the system so that there are more significant cost and strategic consequences for misuse.

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 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 20aid 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 Aprilreform 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 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 20Aid 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 AprilReform: 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 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 20aid 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.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

My point here is that rather than start ethics reform by randomly introducing less qualified, for - profit law practitioners into the market as specious proof that something is actually being done to improve access to justice, let's tackle the challenges that can and will move the needle; such as, modernization of the court system, increasing legal aid, and modernizing lawyer ethics rules that will enable lawyers and law firms to innovate and modernize the business and practice of law.

There can be little doubt that, unless steps are taken by legal practitioners to fill the void created by the withdrawal of legal aid and the increase in the small claims limit, the reforms could lead to the closure of many more firms of solicitors and barristers chambers.

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.

The criticisms of just about every aspect of the government's plans for implementation of the Carter legal aid reforms by the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee were so severe as to raise a serious question about whether the reforms can go ahead as planned.

By contrast the Lib Dems promised reviews of the civil legal aid scheme, the court fees hikes, the reforms of the defence market and many of the other «access to justice» policies that they signed up to as part of the Coalition over the previous five years.

The committee then turned to the ultimate goal of the reform proposals, the adoption of a market - based system where legal aid rates would be determined by competitive tendering for block contracts.

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).

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

Jackson, who was instrumental in implementing the costs reformed that formed part two of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, called on ministers in a speech in Westminster to introduce further reforms to civil costs to set fixed recoverable costs by the end of 2016.

Figures from the first year of civil justice reforms show that access to civil legal aid has fallen by more than half and some categories of law have already become almost entirely inaccessible for state funding.

This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.

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