Civil Legal Advice is an adviceline for England and Wales,
funded by legal aid.
In general, lawyers working as in - house counsel, who are employed by the government, who work in education, or who work for a clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario are exempt from the requirement to pay insurance premiums.
Their claim was therefore not
funded by legal aid.
Robert Lattanzio, executive director of ARCH Disability Law centre, a specialty legal clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario, called Lepofsky's latest report «concerning.»
One can't stop the mugger from suing for assault, but that action won't be
funded by legal aid (in Ontario) nor otherwise funded by the gov» t (in Ontario).
It is worth remembering that until a decade ago many personal injury claims were
funded by legal aid.
The Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic is a community based legal clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario which provides free legal services to low income, non-English speaking clients from the Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian communities in Toronto.
There are 11 Community Legal Clinics in the Northern Region of Ontario,
funded by Legal Aid Ontario.
Landlord's Self - Help Centre is a non-profit community legal clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario and mandated to support Ontario's small - scale landlord community exclusively.
I'm a staff lawyer at IAVGO, a legal clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario to advise and represent low income and vulnerable injured workers.
The average price of a mediation
funded by legal aid in 2013/14 was # 548 for each client.
These same standard policy terms apply when you provide professional services through a clinic within the meaning of the Legal Services Act, 1998, a student legal aid society, or an Aboriginal legal services corporation
funded by Legal Aid Ontario.
She was also vocal about the importance of social mobility in ensuring that we continue to provide a good publicly - funded legal advice system — by ensuring there's a next generation of legal aid lawyers able to provide crucial advice and representation in those areas of law traditionally
funded by legal aid.
IWC is an independent community legal aid clinic
funded by Legal Aid Ontario.
In - person help is available at offices
funded by legal aid throughout the Netherlands (submitting a personal tax ID allows for immediate legal aid assessment, not an option in Canada!)
If he had meant that he would have proposed at the same time that clinical negligence would continue to be
funded by legal aid.
It has now been just over three years since LASPO came into force, and the latest statistics published by the Legal Aid Agency demonstrate the huge reduction in the number of cases
funded by legal aid.
In 2012 - 13, prior to the implementation of LASPO, 724,243 civil law cases were
funded by legal aid; in 2015 - 16, the statistics reveal that this figure has fallen to just 258,460 cases.
There has also been a reduction in the number family mediation meetings
funded by legal aid, down by 5 %.
Katie continued: «If we want to continue to provide a good publicly - funded legal advice system then it's important young people are encouraged to pursue a career in those areas of law traditionally
funded by legal aid to ensure there's a next generation of legal aid lawyers able to provide that crucial advice and representation.»
Ruchi will be articling at Keewaytinok Native Legal Services, a community clinic in Moosonee
funded by Legal Aid Ontario.
HALCO is an independent registered charity
funded by Legal Aid Ontario, the AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long - Term Care, and other sources including corporate, foundation and individual donors.
Some of the children were in a second study,
funded by legal aid, to investigate whether parents who claimed that their children were damaged by the MMR vaccine had grounds for a High Court compensation claim.
His application for
funding by the Legal Aid plan was turned down.
Not exact matches
The ad is
funded by the group New Yorkers United Together, a nonprofit that says in the ad that it will provide
legal aid to immigrants facing threats of deportation from the federal government.
Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, was
aided in part
by a
legal defense
fund that was contributed to
by his allies.
It should be noted that Andrew Wakefield did not have ethical approval to receive biopsies from clinicians, research on biopsies, publish findings or do anything whatsoever with regard to the children enrolled in the above research project, for which he had been commissioned and
funded by the UK
legal aid board.
Class actions in Australia can be
funded in many ways including
by a class member or members, lawyers,
legal aid, commercial third party
funders, regulatory agencies or insurers.
The project,
funded by the Queens Museum of Art and a nonprofit arts group called Creative Time, also involved opening a storefront in New York where Bruguera wanted to hold arts workshops for immigrants, but found that most of the people who came to the store were interested in learning English or needed help finding employment or
legal aid.
The parent who does not receive payments must initiate action
by judicial review: not a notoriously easy process and not always attracting of
legal aid funding.
It is very difficult to get attention for
legal aid, and the pitfalls of a poorly
funded system, while seen clearly
by judges, lawyers and those who fall into
legal troubles, are unseen to many others who stand at a distance to the justice system.
Rejoicing over
Legal Aid Ontario «s (LAO's) recent increased
funding from the Government of Ontario, should be tempered
by the listed «points of conscience» that follow this next paragraph.
The probability of wrongful convictions is increased
by increasing numbers of defendants in the courts without lawyers, which is due to: (a) very poor government
funding of
legal aid programs; and, (b) law societies» failure to attempt to solve the unaffordable
legal services problem — the one aggravates the damage done
by the other.
It knows as both the
legal aid funder of clinical negligence litigation and as the defendant compensator (as it is in the vast majority of clinical negligence cases) that access to justice is extremely costly to it in costs and damages, and that
by attacking access to justice its outlay in both regards will be reduced substantially.
We are also concerned that changes to the way in which the
fund is administered do not have negative consequences for junior lawyers, particularly in terms of ensuring that sponsored training contracts and other mechanisms designed to ensure quality supervision and career progression for
legal aid lawyers do not fall
by the way side.
[10] «Resolution 4: In Support of the Statement of Best Practices for State
Funding of Civil
Legal Aid Prepared
by the ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives,» 2015, 2, http://ccj.ncsc.org/~/media/Microsites/Files/CCJ/Resolutions/07252015-Support-Statement-Best-Practices-State-
Funding-Civil-
Legal-
Aid.ashx.
Between FY 2010 and FY 2017, LSC
funding has decreased
by roughly 14 % (adjusted for inflation), which has resulted in a reduction of
funding for NJP and, subsequently, a reduction of services for low - income people in need of
legal aid.
We entered this session asking the Legislature to increase
funding for
legal aid by roughly $ 12 million — which would have been a 50 % increase in funding to address the significant disparities identified in the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Up
legal aid by roughly $ 12 million — which would have been a 50 % increase in
funding to address the significant disparities identified in the 2015 Civil
Legal Needs Study Up
Legal Needs Study Update.
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION SHOULD RECEIVE ROBUST FEDERAL FUNDING Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) called on Congress today to provide adequate funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ameri
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION SHOULD RECEIVE ROBUST FEDERAL FUNDING Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) called on Congress today to provide adequate funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ameri
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION SHOULD RECEIVE ROBUST FEDERAL
FUNDING Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) called on Congress today to provide adequate funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ame
FUNDING Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) called on Congress today to provide adequate
funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ame
funding for the
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ameri
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil legal aid to low - income Ameri
Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent, nonprofit organization established
by Congress in 1974 that gives financial support for civil
legal aid to low - income Ameri
legal aid to low - income Ameri
legal aid to low - income Americans.
Established in 1974, the
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) promotes equal access to justice by providing federal funding grants to 134 nonprofit legal aid programs across the United St
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) promotes equal access to justice
by providing federal
funding grants to 134 nonprofit
legal aid programs across the United St
legal aid programs across the United States.
Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work
by the private bar, fair and adequate
funding of
legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's),
legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled
legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.
The chief justice and individual members of the court play a public role, making the case for
legal aid funding by giving speeches, visiting with individual legislators, meeting with newspaper editorial boards and authoring op ‐ ed pieces.
Following the
legal aid cuts introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal
legal aid cuts introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal he
aid cuts introduced
by the
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal he
Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly -
funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal
legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such
legal legal help.
To ensure that people are treated equally and fairly before the law
by educating policymakers and the public about the importance of civil
legal aid in our communities and advocating for sufficient public
funding for civil
legal aid on behalf of low - income people in Washington State.
For the County's first biennial budget, FY 2015 — FY 2016,
legal aid is
funded at $ 1.05 million shared
by six organizations.
During the 2017 Legislative Session, the Washington State Legislature increased
funding for civil
legal aid by $ 4.8 million!
On August 31, 2016, the Health & Human Services Committee of the King County Council reviewed a proposal developed
by the King County Department of Community and Human Services to create a new
funding allocation methodology for civil
legal aid.
On 16th September 2015 the All Party Parliamentary Group on
Legal Aid met to discuss the problems faced
by the advice sector as a result of
funding cuts.
Legal aid expansions only really benefit us in the legal profession, by providing a steady and predictable source of government - funded cli
Legal aid expansions only really benefit us in the
legal profession, by providing a steady and predictable source of government - funded cli
legal profession,
by providing a steady and predictable source of government -
funded clients.
b. Is it fair that
Legal Aid has decided to
fund this easily resolvable case, when every day I see people with much more serious and complex problems who have been denied any help
by Legal Aid?