Sentences with phrase «cuts on access to justice»

, NLJ, 6 January 2017, p 8) and the recent Amnesty International report which made the case for reinstating public funding for cases involving young people, welfare benefits, immigration cases involving human rights and initial advice for private family cases («Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice», Amnesty International, 2016).

The report — Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LASPO.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

Not exact matches

«These cuts are having a real impact on the ability of the most vulnerable in our society to access justice.

She said «These cuts are having a real impact on the ability of the most vulnerable in our society to access justice.

In the Law Society's press release of the same date, vice-president Christina Blacklaws highlighted the impact on the budget cuts on legal aid and access to justice.

In the Law Society's press release of the same date, vice-president Christina Blacklaws said «These cuts are having a real impact on the ability of the most vulnerable in our society to access justice.

YLAL co-chair Oliver Carter wrote for The Justice Gap, expressing concern about the impact of further cuts to the MoJ budget on the LASPO review and access to justice genJustice Gap, expressing concern about the impact of further cuts to the MoJ budget on the LASPO review and access to justice genjustice generally.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

In the mid 1980's The Florida Bar, the Governor of Florida and the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court appointed a Commission, The Florida Bar's Special Commission on Access to the Legal System, to assess and make recommendations on the problem of lack of adequate access to the legal system by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandAccess to the Legal System, to assess and make recommendations on the problem of lack of adequate access to the legal system by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandaccess to the legal system by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandaccess problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandatory.

What really sets the CAT apart from most other Canadian courts and tribunals is the fact that it has no hearing rooms, no chambers, and no waiting room... It is a completely digital endeavour, cutting down on real - estate costs, and bringing access to justice to condo dwellers through their computers, tablets and smartphones.

The Ministry of Justice should review the impact of the cuts on children's rights and consider in particular how trafficked and separated children are able to access legal assistance.

The Ministry of Justice has spent less than anticipated on legal aid following the cuts as a result of an overly restrictive and bureaucratic approach and poor provision of information on the availability of legal aid, with the effect that vulnerable people are unable to obtain access to jJustice has spent less than anticipated on legal aid following the cuts as a result of an overly restrictive and bureaucratic approach and poor provision of information on the availability of legal aid, with the effect that vulnerable people are unable to obtain access to justicejustice.

The TUC recommended that the government should ensure that access to legal aid is based on need and should carry out immediate and in - depth assessments of the impacts of budget cuts, LASPO and reforms to court services on access to justice.

In its report, Cuts That Hurt, Amnesty called on the government to immediately review the impact of reforms introduced by LASPO on access to justice and the protection of human rights, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

Dramatic civil legal aid cuts in the UK in 2012 and corresponding effects to the justice system has put access to justice on the radar of future voters.

Legal aid lawyers maintain that the desire to cut costs, reinforced by austerity in the last eight years, has had a serious effect on access to justice — and thereby the rule of law.

Instead of there being a drive to cut costs at the expense of access to justice, the government would be better to focus on streamlining the systems in place to generate efficiencies, without hindering people's ability to bring valid claims.

It comes back to the old argument about who pays for access to justice; with yet further cuts to legal aid piggy backing on restricting access for claimants under the Jackson reforms where's the balance to be achieved?

Yet, massive cuts to legal aid for family law in B.C. have had a dramatic, negative and disproportionate effect on women's ability to access justice.