Sentences with phrase «civil legal aid spending»

For family law, which is the biggest area of civil legal aid spending, the picture is more mixed.

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Easy talk about liberty and «British values» while Britain repeatedly ratchets up the criminal justice system, repeatedly encroaches on civil liberties, undermines legal aid and spends like there is no tomorrow on police and prisons.

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

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The first request sought information relating to any additional costs to the MOJ and wider public sector that may have been created as a result of the reduction in government spending on civil and criminal legal aid.

Other than Quebec and Ontario, legal aid plans spent more on criminal than civil cases in 2009 - 10.

These cases already account for half of the expenditure on civil legal aid and while the number of cases completed was slightly down on the previous quarter the higher levels of spending appears to be a trend which is likely to continue given the wider picture around child protection policy.

She began her legal career representing legal aid clients in civil, criminal, family and child protection matters, and then moved on to spend 10 years with a Fortune 500 company as legal counsel and then as a director.

I was recently asked which one area of civil legal aid I would protect from the upcoming spending cuts in the UK.

January 31, 2017 — «With funding for civil legal aid in Florida at its lowest point in 10 years, a new study shows that every dollar spent on civil legal services for the state's low - income residents yields more than $ 7 in economic impacts.

New Zealand's government spent three times as much, per capita, funding legal aid in civil matters; the Netherlands, four times as much; and England, with a per capita outlay of $ 26, exceeded U. S. spending more than elevenfold.3

Overall spending on civil legal aid for 2016 was # 676m compared to # 709m in 2015.