Sentences with phrase «government legal budgets»

These increases will often come directly from larger government legal budgets, or from initiatives such as the African Legal Support Facility, which was developed by the African Development Bank to support «African governments in the negotiation of complex commercial transactions since 2010».

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The defeat was the most serious setback for Prodi's nine - month - old coalition government, also deeply divided over a host of domestic issues ranging from the budget, pension reform and a bill giving legal recognition to gay and unwed couples.

Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.

There is in fact no legal requirement for the government to have a budget at all.

OTTAWA — The Federal Court has put aside for possibly another day whether Canada's parliamentary budget officer has a legal right to demand the government turn over information on its

With the state budget, the state government has recognized its responsibility to provide constitutionally mandated criminal legal defense services for people who can not afford an attorney.

Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

«If it was legalized in Jersey and it was legal in Massachusetts and the federal government allowed it to go ahead, what would that do to New York because it's right in the middle,» he announced during his budget address.

In 2013 the then coalition Government slashed the budget for legal aid by # 350m a year.

Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.

Even with a large surplus and an annual provincial budget of $ 46 billion, the CBA has been told by the government there is no new money for legal aid, because each department must balance its own budget, says Shorten.

The Chapter on Community Needs and Funding is, however, clearly directed at government and is largely a protest against planned Commonwealth cuts to community legal centre budgets of 30 per cent due in July.

While we acknowledge the government's recent announcement to review the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, the significant cuts to the justice budget are still preventing effective justice for all.»

Annette L. Demers, President - Elect of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, wrote last week to the Canadian government outlining her fears that federal budget cuts could affect long - term access to Canadian legal information:

Although the budget suggests the strategy is being renewed for two years, Jonathan Rudin, project director at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, says a government memo he received Friday indicates the renewal is only for one year.

But as one respondent pointed out, whether governments increase or decrease budgets for legal aid, there will always be areas of the law never covered leaving a hole in access to justice but also offering opportunities for practitioners to get involved in their communities in new and different ways.

The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia branch has hit out at the provincial government for its failure to increase financial support for the province's legal aid system in yesterday's budget.

Its problems are depressingly similar to ours: legal aid practitioners under pressure; strikes and the threat of strikes by practitioners; a government seeking to squeeze resources; pressure on discretionary elements of the budget.

For the most part, however, because enforcing debts against state governments is so difficult, transactions are structured as much as possible to prevent the need to enforce debts in that way through (1) legal limitations on governmental liability, (2) legislative budget rules requiring interest on debt and currently due principal payments to be made first, (3) third - party bonding of state and local governmental construction projects, (4) the creation of publicly owned corporations whose debts can only be collected out of the corporation's assets and revenues, and (5) avoidance of trade credit obligations by paying bills in cash.

If the government ends up being able to implement the budget, 1 million more Ontarians could qualify for legal aid certificates over a 10 - year period.

Recently Alberta's minister of justice and solicitor general, Jonathan Denis, said the province would look at an increase in funding for legal aid for next year if the federal government wouldn't fund a bump to the budget.

«We understand that the legal departments of government agencies have broad and varied needs that they need to meet while still staying under budget.

The view of the Conservative MP on legal aid is that, while he understands the budget pressures the government is under, he believes «we have now removed more than the system can take and should rectify the anomalies as soon as possible,» (www.thetimes.co.uk).

Mr Clarke opened by saying that no other government in the world believes that the state should pay for so much legal representation as it currently does in the UK, and that the Ministry of Justice will have to cut its budget by 23 % overall.

The blame should be placed on the government for having slashed the budget of a vital component of the legal system.

While the government claims the reforms are an essential response to rising costs, the Highways Agency proposes to spend # 2.5 bn on a controversial scheme to widen 50 miles of the M1 - about as much as the annual legal aid budget.

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.

Yasir Naqvi will be bringing in an external firm to review the arm's - length government agency's budget forecasting methodology, decision - making procedures related to budget management, and Legal Aid's plan to balance its budget.

Rather, there should be an economic incentive for the Government to improve police station procedure, court listing practice and case preparation by the CPS or local authorities in order to reduce waiting costs to the legal aid budget.»

Those who provide such programs, whether supported by funding from Justice (Canada), provincial governments, law foundations or community - based funders, typically do so on the most minimal of budgets, relying heavily on both the pro bono efforts of the legal community and collaboration with other PLEI providers.

Reporting from Briggs LJ's presentation at the recent Westminster Legal Forum, Greene, NLJ consultant editor and senior partner at Edwin Coe, says: «[Briggs LJ] expressed his understanding that IT projects in the courts do not have a great pedigree of success but he proffers that the available budget is large and reflects the earnestness of the government to make this work.

To help government customers get everything they need while staying under budget, Legal Files Software offers the flexibility of custom - built software for the price of a COTS solution.

Now that these legal content generators can no longer rely on the financial sector to improve revenues in any significant way and law firms are becoming increasingly Scrooge like in the way they control their information budgets (and as for Government budgets in 2012 on both sides of the pond....

In a time of budget cuts, we can not expect that governments will invest in legal aid and access to justice.

The net result of government plans to wipe # 350m off the legal aid budget is an attack on the welfare of some of the most vulnerable members of our society

At the same time though, the Government could help save money in the legal aid budget by ensuring that its other departments function more effectively.

The Indian finance minister, Arun Jaitley's budget speech on February 1st, stating that «the government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payments system,» added to the existing FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) in the market for cryptocurrencies, sending major crypto - assets down to bargain levels.

«The government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» Jaitley said during a budget speech in which he also expressed interest in blockchain technology.

«The government does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate use of these cryptoassets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» Jaitley told parliament in his annual budget speech.

«The government does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» Jaitley told parliament while presenting the annual budget.

Jaitley, who was ostensibly presenting the Union Budget, took time to state that the government does not consider cryptocurrencies to be legal tender and that regulators will take «all measures» to eliminate their use in criminal activities.

«The government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these cryptoassets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payments system,» India's finance minister Arun Jaitley said during a budget speech on Thursday.

Crypto - Not - Currency In his annual budget speech today, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley once again made clear the government's intention to halt the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in India, claiming the South Asian country does not recognize digital currency as legal tender.

The group issued a statement saying that, despite Government assurances to the contrary, Budget cuts to Indigenous Affairs were impairing the ability of community - controlled organisations to deliver frontline services in critical areas such as legal assistance, family violence, children, youth and women, drug and alcohol misuse, and health.