Sentences with phrase «case qualifies for legal aid»

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In some cases, Michael is prepared to accept clients who qualify for Legal Aid.

To qualify for legal aid, there is a means test (based on any savings the baby has) and a merit test that simply requires that there's enough reason for us to investigate the case.

, «Middle Income Access to Justice» (University of Toronto Press, 2012), the «Introduction» states in part (p. 4): «For our purposes, when we refer to middle income earners, we are contemplating the large group of individuals whose household income is too high to allow them to qualify for legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattFor our purposes, when we refer to middle income earners, we are contemplating the large group of individuals whose household income is too high to allow them to qualify for legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattfor legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattfor them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law matter.

Additionally, if you are self - represented and qualify for legal aid, you may have an opportunity to review your case with duty counsel who can provide you with basic assistance.

He pointed to the case of Charlie Gard, in which his parents had to rely on lawyers working pro bono to represent them as they did not qualify for legal aid, but the scale of the failures of the civil legal aid are much greater than this one high profile tragic case.

The evidential criteria which must be met for victims of domestic violence to access legal aid in private family law cases, may be preventing a proportion of victims from qualifying for assistance.

Also in June, Legal Aid Handbook reported that the Legal Aid Agency will no longer consider applications for funding in cases where the merits are considered to be poor or borderline, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) extended the timetable for making a final decision on whether to introduce its proposed Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), announcing there would be a further consultation.

Massachusetts legal aid organizations turned away nearly two - thirds of people qualifying for civil legal assistance over the last year due to a lack of funding, leaving thousands of low - income residents without representation in cases from domestic violence to foreclosure, according to the findings of a statewide task force to be released Wednesday.

Qualifying projects under Elder Justice AmeriCorps program include support for attorneys on civil legal aid cases involving elder abuse, or on civil legal cases for other indigent clients.

«What the challenge is aimed at is the way in which two facets of B.C.'s legal aid regime covering family law operate, and that's the financial eligibility criteria being incredibly low, so you have to be quite poor to even qualify financially for legal aid,» says Raji Mangat, co-counsel in the case and director of litigation for West Coast LEAF.

Compass Resolution offers FREE mediation to those who qualify for legal aid, as well as a comprehensive private offer depending on the complexity of the case.

This is great in itself but we are also seeing a significant increase in high conflict cases which would usually have gone straight to the CMS, some of whom qualify for legal aid and free mediation but many of whom do not.

Professional advice can be expensive, but you might qualify for legal aid for mediation and possibly for family law cases.