John - Paul Boyd suggests that offering alternative fee structures can
effectively increase access to justice while also maintaining the profitability of your law practice.
Not exact matches
«As most of the proposed stations are on the outskirts of major conurbations this is crucial to help maximise the benefits of any new line and to ensure local authorities can plan local transport solutions
effectively to avoid issues such as a huge
increase in new road users trying to
access stations.
By using the threat of
effectively denying the children of military personnel
access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to
increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.
In a time of extreme financial constraint, a major price
increase effectively curtails
access for many libraries, and especially our communities that are hardest hit economically.»
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 cost.
Furthermore,
access to high speed internet would have to
increase for a service like this to work
effectively.
The struggle to meet the
increasing demand for psychological therapies, particularly during financial downturns, has driven interest in how therapies can be delivered more efficiently and
effectively.3 Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) is a rapidly advancing field that has been recommended within National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines for depression.4 Proponents of cCBT have highlighted
increased access for patients and the potential of these treatments to empower patients, 5, 6 while others have been sceptical that therapy can work in the absence of a therapeutic relationship with a professional.7