Sentences with phrase «family legal aid fee»

«It is proposed that family Legal Aid fee levels should be linked to the level of judge allocated to the case, rather than the tier of the court, as there will only be 2 tiers of court but 4 levels of judges — lay bench, district judge, circuit judge and High Court judge,» explained Emma.

Not exact matches

Duncan Ward, legal operations director at Badenoch & Clark, says: «Fixed fees and means testing are making it more difficult for legal aid family practices to generate revenue.

Fixed and graduated fees in all major elements of the legal aid scheme are still planned, but the LSC has agreed to phase in the introduction of some elements of the new fixed fees for family legal aid work.

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The financial woes of legal aid firms have been well documented in NLJ: criminal defence firms haven't had an increase in fees for 20 years and in 2014 had to endure an 8.75 % cut; and most social welfare law and publicly - funded family legal work was wiped out by the 2013 LASPO cuts.

«Again, we are deeply concerned that the effective reduction in case fees for a significant number of specialist family legal aid suppliers will make it increasingly unattractive to practise in this field of law.

The Carter reforms were intended to ease the pressure on civil and family legal aid, but the committee doubted whether the fee levels proposed would achieve that objective.

It's been a busy few months for the Law Society — a new name; the implementation of recommendations from the Working Together for Change report; the release of the Action Plan in response to the Family Legal Services Review; changes to contingency fees to protect the public; and the closer future involvement of the Law Society in legal aid in Ontario, to name just a few of the many initiatives on thLegal Services Review; changes to contingency fees to protect the public; and the closer future involvement of the Law Society in legal aid in Ontario, to name just a few of the many initiatives on thlegal aid in Ontario, to name just a few of the many initiatives on the go.

The proposed cuts are outlined in a newly published Ministry of Justice consultation paper — Reforming the Legal Aid Family Barrister Fee Scheme.

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«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.»