Sentences with phrase «caused by legal aid»
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».
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An article by John O'Sullivan, ludicrously titled «Michael «Climategate» Mann Suffers Three Legal Blows in Court Escapade,» has been posted on a disreputable conspiracy site that seems to claim that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
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».
The parents of Zane Gbangbola, a seven year old boy whose death may have been caused by hydrogen cyanide poisoning, were also refused legal aid for representation at the inquest into their son's death, as reported by the Guardian, the Daily Mail and others.
Please read this excellent speech by Lucy Scott - Moncrieff, Vice-President of the Law Society, recounting the historical origins of legal aid and warning of the damage that will be caused by the forthcoming legal aid cuts.
The potential damage to the fairness of the criminal damage caused by cuts to criminal legal aid was exposed in R v Crawly.
Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.
The MoJ, for its part, must take care not to present pro bono initiatives as an easy way of reducing the number of self - represented litigants caused by cuts to legal aid.
The immediate cause was its inability to obtain more than 1 per cent of the users going through family separation within a challenging time period set by the Dutch Legal Aid Board.
«Coupled with the uncertainty caused by the government proposals to remove from scope whole areas of legal aid provision, those from low income backgrounds who are willing to forego the riches of the City or other sectors such as banking, but equally can not afford to risk indefinite periods of unemployment, will be forced to give up on the idea of pursuing a career in legal aid.»
RMJ riposted: «This situation is caused by late payment of legal aid by up to two years, not inefficiency or even lack of income: RMJ staff have performed a minor miracle in cutting costs to live with a fall in income per client of over 40 %.
Some of the factors causing women to leave practice included low income, long hours, lack of financial support for maternity leave, difficulty with the Legal Aid system and being treated differently than male peers by judges, Crown Attorneys and court staff.
At the same time, philanthropy can also benefit by embracing civil legal aid as part of its tool kit to advance housing, education, economic security, and other causes central to fairness and prosperity in our nation.
Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.
, will help fill the gap in legal advice provision caused by cuts in legal aid and other public funding.