Sentences with phrase «family legal aid cuts»

The meeting opened with Jenny Beck talking about the impact of the family legal aid cuts on victims of domestic abuse.

Family legal aid cuts are having a major impact while falling crime has made further budget cuts unnecessary, according to the Bar Council

All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid — 22 October 2015 On 22 October 2015 there was a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid, which this month focused on the outcome of the criminal legal aid tender and the impact of family legal aid cuts on victims of domestic abuse.

Our experience is, in short, that the continuing severity of the family legal aid cuts has nullified any positive impact of the latest changes to the system.

The result, due to be implemented on 14 October, would have seen the number of firms contracted to supply family legal aid cut from 2,400 to 1,300.

Not exact matches

The reforms would also create financial savings, notably a cut in the costs of Legal Aid to those contesting cases in the family courts.

The new family enquiries our firm receives on a daily basis provide an extremely worrying snapshot into the impact of cuts to legal aid for family matters.

Their plan for mediation to pick up the family disputes that had been cut from lawyer's legal aid has failed spectacularly so far.

Cuts to legal aid have thrown family proceedings into chaos, say Kim Beatson, Caroline Bowden & Ellen Lucas, in the second of an exclusive NLJ online series on legal aid post-LASPO

Geraldine Morris, head of LexisPSL Family, said: «The new Resolution guide will be a useful new resource for separating and divorcing couples — the need for a greater awareness of options for resolving disputes is brought into sharp focus by the extensive cuts to legal aid and the overloaded court system.

Tell your family, friends, neighbours, MP, and everyone in the pub about what the Government intends to do to the legal aid system and why it is important to stop the cuts.

And, in addition to all this, cuts to legal aid led to the withdrawal of legal aid from large areas of private family work.

In February 2014 we reported that cuts to legal aid had thrown family proceedings into chaos (see «Family law in crisis», 10 February family proceedings into chaos (see «Family law in crisis», 10 February Family law in crisis», 10 February 2014).

Nearly one quarter of the 85 leading family lawyers taking part in the survey said their most pressing issue was litigants in person, which are increasingly common due to cuts in legal aid and public funding for advice centres.

Earlier this year the Judicial Executive Board launched a stinging attack on the cuts to civil legal aid in relation to the family courts.

With cuts to family legal aid due in 2013, and government plans to charge for child support assessments on the horizon, there is some irony in the obligation imposed by Art 15 for the provision of free legal advice (subject to a merits test) in 2007 Convention cases.

On the legal aid cuts it comments: «A consequence (unintended perhaps, but in fact entirely foreseeable) which threatens swiftly to engulf and maybe even overwhelm the judicial system is that family courts at all levels will become thronged with a tsunami of LIPs... The quality of justice will be strained, its administration delayed, its delivery potentially denied.»

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.

While all residents of British Columbia have been impacted by significant cuts to legal aid starting in 2002, the services that were (and continue to be) disproportionately accessed by women — family law and poverty law — sustained the deepest cuts.

More than a decade ago, legal aid in BC was drastically cut by 40 % overall and by 60 % for family law, so that today 3 out of every 5 applications for family law legal aid representation are denied.

As expected, legal aid in family court cases will be significantly cut.

The amount of legal aid available for family law matters in BC has been drastically cut since 2002.

With the cuts to legal aid for family related matters this is more prevalent now then it has ever been.

She pointed out that the cuts to legal aid were supposed to preserve access for the most vulnerable in society; however this has not been the case and the cuts that have been made were short sighted and didn't take into account the longer term impact on society and family relationships.

The reforms and cuts to legal aid are huge concerns facing all family lawyers and it is therefore so important that we continue to use our collective voices to ensure that families and in particular children all have access to legal representation if and when needed».

Cuts to legal aid provision have led to an increasing number of people appearing as litigants in person, especially in the family courts and most particularly in divorce cases.

The axe fell across civil and family legal aid this week as the Ministry of Justice announced its cuts.

Since legal aid was cut for private family law matters last April, Resolution has launched a financial product to provide family law clients with loans for legal advice, in conjunction with Iceberg Client Credit, as well as Family Matters, a service for separating cofamily law matters last April, Resolution has launched a financial product to provide family law clients with loans for legal advice, in conjunction with Iceberg Client Credit, as well as Family Matters, a service for separating cofamily law clients with loans for legal advice, in conjunction with Iceberg Client Credit, as well as Family Matters, a service for separating coFamily Matters, a service for separating couples.

, 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, 20Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice», Amnesty International, 20cuts on access to justice», Amnesty International, 2016).

David Warner, supervising solicitor at South Westminster Legal Advice Centre, says the centre has seen «a marked increase» in the number of clients seeking family law advice since LASPO cut legal aid from most areas of family law in April Legal Advice Centre, says the centre has seen «a marked increase» in the number of clients seeking family law advice since LASPO cut legal aid from most areas of family law in April legal aid from most areas of family law in April 2013.

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

Last month, the Ministry of Justice restricted legal aid for civil and family matters as part of a # 350m cuts package.

If you cut legal aid for family work then you have to do what some US courts have done: provide resources for self - help or inject resources into provision in the advice and law centre sector.

The recent bidding round cut the number of firms contracted to provide family legal aid work from 2,400 to 1,300.

As for family law, the paper notes that the Cooperative, an ABS with a social mission, has not been able to halt the massive increase in unrepresented litigants arising from the legal aid cuts of 2013 despite being one of the largest providers of family law services.

The paper examines two aspects of the English experience namely the effect of ABS on the personal injury and the insurance industry and the relatively limited impact of ABS on family law as opposed to the significant impact of cuts in legal aid.

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.

And, while our services can't fully address the crisis in the provision of family law legal help triggered by legal aid cuts, they provide an excellent first step by enhancing access to and visibility of the legal options that are available in an efficient, non-intimidating and transparent way.

As Principal Lawyer and Head of Personal Legal Services, Andrew Newbury, has told many media publications nationwide: «the cuts to legal aid in family work are having a huge impact on many separating couLegal Services, Andrew Newbury, has told many media publications nationwide: «the cuts to legal aid in family work are having a huge impact on many separating coulegal aid in family work are having a huge impact on many separating couples.

Either way the extra revenue will be a welcome relief for family lawyers with the recent legal aid cuts.