Sentences with phrase «legal aid bills»

Late payment of legal aid bills has caused the Refugee and Migrant Justice charity to close its doors, leaving about 10,000 clients in the lurch.

Green had neglected to mention her membership of the GMB trade union when attempting to amend the Legal Aid Bill.

I am clear — you can't avoid paying your legal aid bill and expect to keep a fancy car on the driveway.»

The government plans to introduce a system of price competitive tendering (PCT) into criminal defence work with the aim of slashing a further # 220m from the legal aid bill and cutting the number of contracts from 1,600 to around 400 providers.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»

... amidst the gloom of the legal aid bill, the LAPG's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards provided a moment to celebrate the fantastic achievements that legal aid lawyers make every day.

Clause 51 of the Legal Aid Bill empowers the rules committee to bring about drastic changes to my beloved Pt 36, including the 10 % damages uplift for a claimant who has been successful lat trial.

But plans to cut the $ 54m criminal legal aid bill could spark a strike by criminal law barristers and paralyse Ireland's criminal courts.

«And as we rather like that adversarial system, where it is up to the state to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, its claims, then that legal aid bill is something that we'll just have to suck up.»

(4) The legal aid bill will be reduced by around # 350 million: except to the extent that any of this reduction is achieved by the reduction of the Legal Services Commission's administrative costs, of course the turnover of legal aid providers in the aggregate will go down.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) issued a dire warning this week about the future for victims of negligence as a result of the Legal Aid Bill and the ban on referral fees in personal injury cases.

This would also deliver a significant saving to the Scottish Court system and the Scottish legal aid bill.

The Kinship Care Alliance has serious concerns about the legal aid bill that is currently going through Parliament.

Not exact matches

The Commons» agenda is dominated by the coalition's cuts to legal aid, while in the Lords the health and social care bill continues to receive scrutiny from peers.

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So I can announce this morning that Labour will be seeking to amend the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill so that courts have an explicit duty to consider making an order to participate in a restorative justice course.

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

He has cut a quarter of the legal aid budget, set court and tribunal fees at unaffordable levels, and exposed claimants to eye - watering costs bills that wealthy defendants often run up.

Concerns from Tory MPs about the sentencing aspects of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill have been well covered, not least with Philip Davies» ConHome piece on the topic yesterday.

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Concerns are raised by Tory MPs about cuts to legal aid as Ken Clarke's justice bill gets its Second Reading

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In combination with other provisions on financial disclosure and restrictions on legal aid, this bill seems designed to end the role of the third sector in public law litigation.

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The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill provides a much - needed opportunity to mend our broken compensation system to ensure a better deal for genuine claimants, taxpayers, local authorities, the NHS and businesses alike» Matthew Davis, Head of Group Insurance, Home Retail Group (whose brands include Argos), said: «Managing our business costs is crucial to ensuring that we remain the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.

There are two strands of parliamentary activity at the moment - the first is the heavy - duty Government legislation, which is mostly going through the Lords, including the Welfare Reform Bill and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.

Whitehall negotiations are currently ongoing over whether to toughen up community sentences in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently working its way through parliament.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

Meanwhile, consultation on Mr Clarke's Green Paper ended last Friday, and the resulting Legal Aid and Sentencing Bill is due for publication in May.

At a Social Market Foundation fringe meeting on Tuesday, Tom Brake, the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, suggested Downing Street had insisted on changing the name to the «legal aid, sentencing and punishment bill» in order to «give the right image to the Daily Mail and the Daily Express».

The signing drew praise from the Legal Aid Society, the Community Service Society and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking its own steps to ensure teens are no longer jailed at Rikers after reaching a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by The Legal Aid Society and a number of private law firms.

Call the local Bar Association, a Legal Aid office in your area (for low - income households), or the National Association of Consumer Advocates to find an attorney who specializes in consumer law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Fair Credit Billing Act.

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The changes proposed in the Immigration Bill and the changes due to be implemented as a result of the Transforming Legal Aid exercise may well be the final straw for many immigration firms, whose post-LASPO business plans had been built, in part, around the continuation of their judicial review practice.

Furthermore, Proclaim's provision for Legal Aid work means all time is automatically recorded - available for users to effortlessly upload to the LAA - eliminating duplicate data entry and allowing for the submission of bills directly through the Proclaim desktop.

I firmly believe that LSS funding for the Legal Aid Criminal Defence bar is a political issue that can only be resolved with a Legal Aid Lawyers Bill to establish a legislated bargaining group similar to the Crown Prosecutors Act.

The Prisons and Courts Bill would instead give judges the power to appoint a legal aid lawyer to carry out the questioning.

Inevitably, the media spotlight was distracted from «access to justice» on the day the Bill, the biggest rolling back of the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was published.

However, as the amendment practice direction shows, PDs remain the responsibility of the President of the Family Division (Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (CRA 2005) s 13 and Sch 2 (power to give directions) as explained in Re C (Legal Aid: Preparation of Bill of Costs)[2001] 1 FLR 602 and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v Bovale Ltd and anor [2009] EWCA Civ 171, [2009] 1 WLR 2274 (Bovale)-RRB-.

Justice for All have a quick and simple way for you to message your MP to encourage them to oppose the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.

The Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network stands in support of the Private Member's Bill to repeal Section 38 (1)(c) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)-- which we called for before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration last November.

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is due to be debated by the House of Lords on Monday 21 November 2011.