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

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

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The government's austerity cuts have had a huge impact on the number of solicitors taking on legal aid cases, as Chana's experience testifies to.

Chana's story is one of the unspoken impacts of the legal aid cuts: the draining of specialist talent from the legal sector as experts on male violence against women and girls can no longer sustain careers as solicitors.

Does this line of argument ultimately endorse the coalition government's draconian cuts to legal aid as a tool for securing higher success figures for the UKBA?

He has a proper understanding of the appropriate tension between the executive and the judiciary and he's got a good record fighting against cuts to citizen's legal powers, such as on judicial review and legal aid.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

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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

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

As just one comparator, in a report issued last year, Statistics Canada calculated the low income cut - off, before tax, for a single person living in a metropolitan area (more than 500,000 people) for 2014 at $ 24,328, or more than twice the figure that Legal Aid Ontario uses [1].

So it's welcome to have the Low Commission shining much - needed light on the impact of the LASPO cuts on those largely poor and vulnerable people who up until nine months ago had legal aid as some kind of safety net.

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

From the coverage in the legal press, you might think that the «crisis» was limited to the parlous state of legal aid system, but that 40 % cut will cover the entire MoJ budget including prisons and probation as well as our courts.

Lou Villemez graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1993 and spent the next 12 years as a Legal Aid attorney, first with Rappahannock Legal Services in Fredericksburg, Virginia and then with Montana Legal Services in Browning and Cut Bank.

Amnesty International International Secretariat research on the human rights impact of legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 20aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 20Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

On 16th September 2015 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid met to discuss the problems faced by the advice sector as a result of funding cuts.

The chief executive of the British Columbia's legal aid body identifies «a perfect storm» composed of cuts to income and rising demand as a result of the recession.

Duty counsel in British Columbia will take collective job action against the B.C. government starting in January and completely withdraw services after April from a system described by B.C. Trial Lawyers Association's legal aid committee co-chairman Phil Rankin as suffering from «atrophication that has been happening slowly like dementia» from continuous funding 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.

Partners predict an exodus from publicly - funded work as the MoJ plans to cut # 350m from the legal aid budget but are split over whether cuts are justified.

The report cites data from the MoJ which estimates 75,000 children and young people have been losing entitlement to legal aid each year as a result of the LASPO cuts.

No other public service has suffered the same level of cuts as civil legal aid.

These changes take place in the wider context of a series of recent changes to legal aid for judicial review, as well as numerous other changes to legal aid including cuts to criminal legal aid, the removal of most legal aid for prisoners and the forthcoming introduction of a «residence test» for civil legal aid.

Per an investigation by The Guardian, the net effect of regulatory reform in the U.K. has actually reduced access to justice, as part of the reforms included substantial cut backs in government funded legal aid programs.

Criminal legal aid practitioners are furious, as most are feeling the impact of the reducing numbers of cases going through the system and can see no justification for the cuts.

The recent outbursts should be understood in the context of justice policies such as the legal aid cuts, curtailment of judicial review and plans to repeal the Human Rights Act.

«It's no surprise as the cuts bite, law firms pull out of what remains of the legal aid scheme, not - for - profit advice agencies go to the wall, and then there is the maddening bureaucracy of legal aid,» Robins writes.

This type of legal aid, know as legal help, bore the brunt of the cuts.

As discussed in our report they lost 77 % of their income from legal aid due to the cuts to legal help.

The MoJ, for its part, must take care not to present pro bono initiatives as an easy way of reducing the number of self - represented litigants caused by cuts to legal aid.

Both Wilson and Jay make the point that the employment tribunal reforms should be seen alongside the green paper on legal aid which proposes scrapping public funding from employment cases under the «legal help» scheme as part of the # 350m cuts (legal aid is not available for representation).

The tragedy has highlighted the divisions in society and raised many questions including issues as to: access to justice and legal funding, as the tenants were unable to obtain legal aid for advice due to the legal aid cuts; the legal protection of tenants both in private and social housing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authorities.

As lawyers, in recent years we have seen first hand the devastating impact of legal aid cuts and vastly increased court fees on the ability of ordinary people, including our often vulnerable clients, to obtain justice.

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»»):

«The «clinic resource office» is on the hit list as Legal Aid Ontario makes major service cuts, which community legal clinics fear will curb their ability to serve the nLegal Aid Ontario makes major service cuts, which community legal clinics fear will curb their ability to serve the nlegal clinics fear will curb their ability to serve the needy.

A judicial review has been launched against Ministry of Justice (MoJ) cuts to legal aid fees for Crown Court cases with heavy workloads, such as terror, fraud and serious historic sex cases.

The report — Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LACuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LAcuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LASPO.

However, cuts have been made since its creation as the government believed the scope of legal aid was too wide.

Thus, the cuts to legal aid mean that people were not going to lawyers as much as they used with their cases, and so solicitors in this area of law are not needed as much.

Labour was no friend of legal aid — on the Today programme during the election campaign the only cut in public spending Ed Miliband could identify as one which Labour would make and the public would notice was legal aid.

As expected, legal aid in family court cases will be significantly cut.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

The Ministry of Justice has spent less than anticipated on legal aid following the cuts as a result of an overly restrictive and bureaucratic approach and poor provision of information on the availability of legal aid, with the effect that vulnerable people are unable to obtain access to justice.

Denise was described as cutting «to the chase on legal aid...

This states that those organisations oppose any further cuts to legal aid as proposed by the MoJ and that the «published data can not be considered in isolation and does not justify cuts in any form.

Denise was described as cutting «to the chase on legal aid mediations» the assessors also recommended her as «very strong on children cases», which Denise combines with an interest in helping couples resolve financial issues arising out of separation.

CRIMINAL cases due for hearing at Dublin's circuit and district courts could be disrupted today as a group of lawyers protest over cuts to the legal aid system.

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