Sentences with phrase «how legal aid cuts»
Notable articles included prison law barrister Flo Krause on how legal aid cuts have forced her out of her career at the bar, Jon Robins on how «legal aid cuts have ripped the heart out of our justice system», and Miranda Grell on why we should all care about the decimation of legal aid.
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· The ConservativeHome blog published this post about how legal aid cuts are costing taxpayers more money than they save.
Other news: prison law barrister Flo Krause spoke to the Guardian about how legal aid cuts have forced her out of her career at the bar.
They didn't bother to assess the effects or monitor them once they started - how legal aid cuts ended the British sense of fair play.
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The very fact that the initial legal aid cuts refused to recognise the complex needs of domestic abuse survivors — and that it took a women's rights organisation to challenge it — demonstrates how vital this specialist knowledge is.
The first question one should ask potential clients is about how much justice they can afford, especially in light of the serious problems facing economically disadvantaged litigants as reported recently in a Toronto Star article («Legal Aid facing «troubling cuts»»):
«When you consider just how paltry increases in legal aid rates have been since 1993 up to the present time — probably less than 1 % per annum over those 13 years when the costs of supplying the service have gone up over 40 % — there is very little fat in the system left to cut.
``... can not know if, and how, legal aid suppliers in different regions and categories of the law will be able to absorb the planned rate cuts, especially in London and other urban areas, if it does not have sufficient detailed information about the economic situation of legal aid suppliers by region and contract category.