Sentences with phrase «by the legal aid practitioners»
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.
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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.
It is organised jointly by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) and Young Legal Aid Lawyers.
CCMS: the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) for civil legal aid was the subject of a recent survey of legal aid lawyers by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG).
Conferences in Birmingham (organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)-RRB- and Belfast (the Public Interest Litigation Support project) discussed the future for legal aid practitioners.
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 All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid is a relatively new APPG which is hosted by the Legal Aid Practitioners» Group and the Young Legal Aid Lawyers.
Not exact matches
Law Society legal aid manager, Richard Miller, says: «Given the strength of opposition from legal aid practitioners, we are pleased that the LSC has acknowledged many of the problems posed by BVT and will now give careful consideration to the issues before any further steps to implement it are taken.»
Its problems are depressingly similar to ours: legal aid practitioners under pressure; strikes and the threat of strikes by practitioners; a government seeking to squeeze resources; pressure on discretionary elements of the budget.
This is a good deal kinder to practitioners than the blunt words of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012: «The lord chancellor may by regulations make provision about the payment of remuneration by the lord chancellor to persons who provide services under arrangements made for the purposes of this Part.»
The government had decided, following its defeat in the previous judicial review brought by the practitioner groups and the subsequent re-consultation, to increase the number of duty contracts for criminal legal aid work from 525 to 527.
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.
They say fees for practitioners had been cut by 30 % across the board since 2007 and a further 20 % cut in the legal aid budget was anticipated.
Reduce firm salaries and billable hours requirements by half, across the board, while at the same time doubling salaries for public defenders, legal aid attorneys, non-profit attorneys and all other «public interest» practitioners.
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.
Carol Storer, director, Legal Aid Practitioners Group, said: «We remain worried about the effect on quality, that organisations who do this work now and do it well may be replaced by organisations that don't.
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 mostly legal aid practitioners gave their overwhelming support to a motion tabled last year by Roger Peach, a solicitor at Southampton law firm Peach Grey & Co..