Sentences with phrase «legal aid cuts»

The review must fairly and objectively assess the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

The main item of business was the imminent announcement of the criminal legal aid cuts.

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.

Because of massive legal aid cuts I'm worried about someone who hasn't got lots of money being able to defend themselves fairly if they're accused of a crime.

Either way the extra revenue will be a welcome relief for family lawyers with the recent legal aid cuts.

The experts also took a dim view of litigants in person, whose numbers are widely expected to soar as the impact of legal aid cuts and other funding shortages is felt.

Legal aid for prisoners: The government has withdrawn its application to the Supreme Court to appeal the Howard League's successful challenge to legal aid cuts for prison law.

All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid — 22 October 2015 On 22 October 2015 there was a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid, which this month focused on the outcome of the criminal legal aid tender and the impact of family legal aid cuts on victims of domestic abuse.

The Bar Council will continue to press for a wide scope which includes the impact of LASPO on society and considers the combined and interactive effect of legal aid cuts with welfare and other civil justice reforms.»

I am genuinely curious to discover if Siaro, with its data visualisation tools, document production and ODR potential, will introduce cost - savings and efficiencies sufficient to re-connect family lawyers with clients of modest means who have been so badly served by the civil legal aid cuts in England and Wales.

Martha spoke about the impact of legal aid cuts as well as the ongoing scandal of indefinite immigration detention.

Campaigners against legal aid cuts won a major victory today, after the court of appeal allowed a case to go ahead on the impact of the reform on prisoners.

The meeting opened with Jenny Beck talking about the impact of the family legal aid cuts on victims of domestic abuse.

We are thinking through forms of innovative advocacy following legal aid cuts and CAB cuts.

Members of probation union Napo joined with striking solicitors this afternoon for a protest against Grayling outside parliament, as they went through their second day of industrial action over legal aid cuts and the privatisation of probation services.

Similarly, defence firms were told last week that they will have to wait until after the election to find if they face further legal aid cuts following new year consultations on both litigators» and advocates» fees schemes.

Dramatic civil legal aid cuts in the UK in 2012 and corresponding effects to the justice system has put access to justice on the radar of future voters.

Thousands of barristers will walk out of work today, in a protest at forthcoming legal aid cuts which they say will leave the profession on an unsustainable footing.

Law Society LASPO Report: the Law Society published its report on the consequences of legal aid cuts made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

The result, due to be implemented on 14 October, would have seen the number of firms contracted to supply family legal aid cut from 2,400 to 1,300.

Amnesty International say legal aid cuts have created two - tier justice that leaves the poorest and most vulnerable out in the cold, by Emma Fitzsimons Amnesty International has released a blistering attack on the Government's legal aid reforms, which has led to the creation of a two - tier justice system that is increasingly closed to the most vulnerable and those in need of protection.

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.

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.

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

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As justice secretary, he saw unwelcome headlines over issues including legal aid cuts that sparked an unprecedented walkout by barristers and solicitors, mandatory court charges and an attempt to ban books being sent to prisoners, most of which were later reversed.

People representing themselves «clog up» courts, says Elizabeth Gloster, as report details legal aid cuts» effect on lawyers» morale

Sir Henry was vice-chair of an all - party commission into the impact of the 2013 legal aid cuts headed by the Labour peer Lord Willy Bach.

It is a well - known and established fact that severe legal aid cuts, and changes to the structure of payments in the larger cases, have led to a crisis amongst the better Criminal Legal Aid suppliers — those trying to provide a quality service but not receiving appropriate remuneration.

One participant, with the Twitter handle @MarieMachete, suggested that reversing legal aid cuts would help the problem.

Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Peirce, won Legal Champion for his campaign against legal aid cuts through the Justice Alliance.

LASPO four years on, which found legal aid cuts had increased pressure on public services, as unresolved legal issues escalated into bigger problems.

April saw the announcement of the outcome of the challenge to prison law legal aid cuts: a major victory for the Howard League and the Prisoners» Advice Service, and as Laura Janes, the Howard League's Legal Director and YLAL's founder hailed it, a victory for justice too.

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 (LASPO).

But, in these gloomy economic times when young people's (particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds) debts spiral, their advice and support services downsized or removed, and the looming legal aid cuts threaten the closure of the few specialised legal advice services that support them, what is to stop them falling into an even bigger access to justice black hole?

Here is a comment article in The Guardian criticizing recent Australian legal aid cuts for their effect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

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.

Mark Solon, solicitor of Bond Solon Training, says: «Expert witnesses are not like solicitors and barristers, many of whom roll over and accept legal aid cuts.

Surely any campaign to fight legal aid cuts, must have «poverty law» (to use Roger Smith's phrase) or the «law of everyday life» (as Lord Willy Bach more poetically put it) at its core?

In response to brutal legal aid cuts, a group of top law firms are preparing to launch a collaborative pro bono project to help those most vulnerable, as well as to lobby for a properly funded system.

«The Bar Council looks forward to engaging constructively with this review and will continue to press for a wide scope which includes the impact of LASPO on society and considers the combined and interactive effect of legal aid cuts with welfare and other civil justice reforms.»

The issue of legal aid cuts as a false economy was widely reported by the Guardian, the Law Society Gazette and Buzzfeed.

Earlier last month, on 10th April 2018, chambers» criminal practice group confirmed its support for the Criminal Bar Association's proposals in response to the new raft of criminal legal aid cuts and you can read the announcement here.

In some rare good news, the Court of Appeal last month ruled that the 2013 legal aid cuts for prisoners were unlawful after a three - year legal battle by the Howard League and the Prisoners» Advice Service (PAS).

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.

Nick Fluck, the newly installed president of the Law Society, has pledged to continue the profession's «constructive and robust engagement» with the government over legal aid cuts.

Finally, Jackson LJ said he advocated against further legal aid cuts and was dismayed when «swingeing cutbacks» were introduced on the same day as his reforms.