Sentences with phrase «civil legal aid scheme»

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.

Civil and family legal aid firms have nearly halved in number since 2007/08, for example, although they shrunk by almost a further quarter in the last year, and the number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme reduced by almost two - thirds in the last four years.

7 October 2004: new on this page: the Scottish Legal Aid Board's proposed scale rates of payment for counsel under the Civil Legal Aid scheme.

The number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme had collapsed by almost two - thirds over the last four years.

How does the promise of ODR shape up in an age which is distinctly one of austerity and where, in England and Wales, the heart has been torn out of a once impressive civil legal aid scheme?

Growth was stopped in its tracks and we lost about 5 % of potential output from 2010 to 2012 — an irretrievable loss of # 90bn, enough to pay for 270 civil legal aid schemes.

Not exact matches

But, particularly for two jurisdictions like the US and England and Wales, where conventional civil legal aid is now hard to get even for cases with a significant public interest, this is a real additional resource — albeit one which could never match universal coverage of an appropriate legal aid scheme.

The Board's civil legal aid and advice scheme will assist with applications for asylum or subsidiary protection and appeals to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal.

Civil legal aid will become fully electronic in 2010, under a «Delivery Transformation» scheme announced by the Commission in December.

In successfully increasing the numbers of acts of advice through civil legal aid, the LSC has shown that legal aid providers are willing to take on additional contracts to deliver more services to clients... [o] ur view is that the provider base will be able to work with the new fee schemes.»

«The new fixed and graduated fee schemes (for civil, family and immigration legal aid) are predicated on providers carrying out a range of cases that address the full spectrum of clients» needs... Providers may choose to use particular practitioners as specialists to deal with more complex cases, however, the organisation as a whole will need to provide a full range of services in order to profit effectively from the new fees.»

Our Mission is to facilitate the effective resolution of civil disputes through the delivery of efficient and accessible legal aid and mediation services and to effectively manage and administer the State's criminal legal aid schemes.