Sentences with phrase «legal aid cuts leaving»

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.

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But when the coalition cuts to legal aid were introduced, she was forced to leave the job she loved.

The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prisoners» Advice Service (PAS) argued that legal aid cuts had left vulnerable prisoners, including the mentally ill and mothers being separated from their children, without any protections.

Nicola Hill, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association, said: «These cuts mean that law firms will rapidly go to the wall in their hundreds, leaving people who can't afford to pay privately with only the crumbs of legal aid.

But with legal aid cut and advice centres closing, the failures of the appeal process is leaving many people with nowhere else to turn.

«Meanwhile, legal aid cuts have left many vulnerable people, including those detained in immigration detention, without access to the help they need.»

Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.

In addition, cuts to legal aid by the BC government have left many women in poverty in dire situations, rampant confusion for lay litigants, and creating enormous backlogs in the court system.

«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.

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