Sentences with phrase «legal aid cut decisions»

Our members have appeared in many of the leading cases in this area, from the swaps litigation of the 1990s, through the claims arising out the collapse of the Icelandic banking system, to current challenges to Government sanctions and legal aid cut decisions.

Not exact matches

Amjid Jabbar, Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors, discusses Gove's decision to end planned cuts to legal aid for The Barrister.

The decision to halt a multi-million pound land fraud trial due to legal aid cuts leaving the defence without barristers has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

There have been a number of developments since our first report was published including the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum salary and legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LALegal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum salary and legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LAlegal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPaid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LALegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPAid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

Simon Creighton spoke candidly on the impact the cuts have had on the quality and quantity of prison advice services over the last few years following the decision of former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling to remove legal aid assistance in nearly all Prison Law cases.

«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.

The event, The Citizen and the State: Poor decision - making and the role of the pro bono Bar, considered the extent of poor decision - making by state bodies which forced members of the public to appeal decisions about their entitlement to benefits and other rights, to the courts, often without legal representation due to legal aid cuts.

Guardian editorial, Public Spending: Banned aid: «Mr Clarke's sensible decision to continue to give legal aid in inquests, in asylum cases and in judicial reviews, to discover that the speed and severity of the cuts announced yesterday will once again disproportionately hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

Meanwhile, discussions about the future of criminal legal aid continued following the government's decision to abandon two tier contracts and suspend the second 8.75 % fee cut.

If the Government's decision is to cut back legal aid to the extent indicated in its Consultation Response dated June 2011, then so be it, although I regret the decision for the reasons mentioned above.

Acted for the Claimants / Appellants in their challenge to the Lord Chancellor's decision to cut by two - thirds the number of criminal legal aid contracts for duty provider work.

Giving the lead judgment, Lord Sumption acknowledged that although litigants in person are often representing themselves through no choice of their own due to the well - publicised stringent cuts in legal aid over the last eight years, whilst the Court may be able to make allowances in respect of case management decisions, a lower standard of compliance with Civil Procedure Rules or Orders of the Court could not be justified.