Sentences with phrase «legal aid cuts through»

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

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Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

Lord Bach makes the important point that the rule of law and legal rights do not mean much unless citizens are able, through the legal system, to have them upheld, and that cuts to legal aid have made that impossible for many, especially the most vulnerable in society.

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.

He said that he believes cuts to legal aid may have been a false economy because the rise in litigants in person means that judges have to spend time helping litigants through a case.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of the uproar concerning further cuts to the legal aid fees paid to practitioners following the recent additions to the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme («AGFS»), a matter which naturally made its way into the conversation through constructive questions and statements.

What is fundamentally different between the implementation of Woolf and Jackson is that the reforms in the Woolf era provided a cut in access for claimants through legal aid but greater privately funded access through conditional fees.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

However, with free legal advice centres having to fight harder to secure funding while legal aid budgets are coming under continued pressure, there are concerns that many people who have been disadvantaged by cuts will be unable to assert their rights through legal action.

A study carried out by The Times last year showed that around 40 % of people have stopped using lawyers in their divorce, this is largely due to the cuts in legal aid and people going through amicable divorces looking to save money and time.

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.

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.