Sentences with phrase «by the legal aid plan»

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

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She noted that the governor accepted the recommendations of his own task force back in 2014 that was formed to propose a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020, which called for — among many other things — the establishment of legal injection sites.

Thousands of legal documents and residency forms have been withdrawn at the last minute, after Chris Grayling's plans to restrict legal aid to long - term British residents were blocked by the high court.

Legal aid lawyers have laid out plans to roll back the «damage caused by LASPO [Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] cuts&raquaid lawyers have laid out plans to roll back the «damage caused by LASPO [Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] cuts&raquAid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012] cuts».

But the beginning of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan (which became Legal Aid Ontario by way of the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998, s. 3 (1)-RRB-, on March 29, 1967, meant many more accused persons had lawyers, which resulted in: (1) many more trials and a lot fewer guilty pleas; and as a result, (2) drastically over-crowded jails containing inmates awaiting trial; and, (3) shortages of staff in the Toronto Crown Attorney's Office.

Young legal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid life: our latest column for Legal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education cLegal Voice on a day in the life of young legal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid lawyers was written by YLAL committee member Katherine Barnes about her experience acting in an appeal against a child's education, health and care plan in which the child's mother was unrepresented due to the withdrawal of legal aid for representation in education clegal aid for representation in education cases.

By 1963, however, it was clear that the plan made excessive demands of volunteer lawyers, whose efforts could not keep up with the demand for legal aid services.

By the time I started as an assistant Crown Attorney in 1968, the Legal Aid Plan seemed well - established but not yet fully realized.

The Government has announced its intention to press ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of legal aid contracts allowing criminal defence firms to represent suspects in the police station, while also cutting fees by a further 8.75 %.

With cuts to family legal aid due in 2013, and government plans to charge for child support assessments on the horizon, there is some irony in the obligation imposed by Art 15 for the provision of free legal advice (subject to a merits test) in 2007 Convention cases.

Protests against the government's civil legal aid changes are being planned by the Access to Justice Alliance.

The government's plans for legal aid were dealt a serious blow this week after they were savaged by an influential parliamentary committee.

Updated The legal community has been digesting yesterday's announcement of government plans for legal aid to be reduced by around # 350 per year from 2014 - 15.

The LASPO cuts were originally planned to reduce the legal aid budget by # 350m, but the spending has reduced from around # 2.2 bn to # 1.6 bn.

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.

But plans to cut the $ 54m criminal legal aid bill could spark a strike by criminal law barristers and paralyse Ireland's criminal courts.

In an attempt to address the sobering findings of the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Update, which found that a full 76 % of low - income Washingtonians experiencing a civil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four yLegal Needs Study Update, which found that a full 76 % of low - income Washingtonians experiencing a civil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ylegal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ylegal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four years.

Enter Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO) new blog — the first ever by a Canadian Legal Aid plan.

``... can not know if, and how, legal aid suppliers in different regions and categories of the law will be able to absorb the planned rate cuts, especially in London and other urban areas, if it does not have sufficient detailed information about the economic situation of legal aid suppliers by region and contract category.

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.

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In a post last month, I reviewed efforts by former Minister of Justice to establish a national legal aid plan.

Government plans for cutting criminal legal aid by # 220 million have been thrown into confusion after the high court ruled that the Ministry of Justice consultation process was so unfair that it was illegal.

The FASS in Dandenong has been established by Victoria Legal Aid, with funding from the Australian Government as part of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010 - 2022.