Sentences with phrase «legal aid money»

The Daily mail says he has been given # 253,000 in taxpayer - funded legal aid money since battling his deportation.

I have also witnessed pats on the back for such initiatives as more legal aid money (from a cash - strapped government carrying the largest subnational debt in the Known Universe), more pamphlets, more e-filing, the re-purposing of the Shirley Dennison legacy to pay for an award for people who enhance A2J each year, and encouraging our First Nations people to make more use of (very useful) circles of healing.

Another was dishonest misuse of legal aid money obtained by Wakefield to pay for the study.

Not exact matches

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«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

They didn't have that sort of money and there was no legal aid available so we just thought we give it a go.

Legal aid is taxpayers» money and should be used where really necessary, not for issues from prisoners that can be fairly dealt with by other means.

Eight protesters were arrested outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office Tuesday as they called for more money for legal aid services for the state's poorest.

But he stood firm on the need for legal aid cuts, saying: «It was the case that too much taxpayer money was spent on legal aid.

Eight protesters were arrested outside Governor Cuomo's office as they demonstrated for more money for legal aid services for the state's poorest.

Banks said the procedures to track rebate and refund receipts have been improved and Legal Aid is working with the county to determine how much money needs to be returned.

Lawyers from the Legal Aid Society, one of the public defender groups pushing for the funding, have urged de Blasio to allocate the money without delineating any exemptions.

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

The presentation includes an initial discussion / debate about whether using tax payers money for legal aid is a necessity or whether the opportunity...

Exhaust all avenues for child custody legal aid before borrowing money.

The Credit - Aid Software program software will help you with your credit repair, and use every legal means to erase bad credit quickly, or your money back.

The Credit - Aid Software program and credit doctor software will help you with your credit repair, and use every legal means to erase bad credit quickly, or your money back.

As part of a legal change, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education decided on a 90 - 10 rule that would allow for - profit educators to accept money from federal aid programs so long as 10 % of their students paid out of pocket.

This program offers individuals who work in the legal profession, specifically in the civil legal aid field, the opportunity to earn money towards their loan repayment.

In addition, Animal Aid USA raises money to fund spay and neuter programs in low income communities and raise awareness of the legal animal cruelties happening daily in the U.S., such as the gas chamber, cardiac heart stick euthanasia and puppy mills.

It would have earned Legal Aid Ontario a lot of money.

There are a number of ways to skin this cat but with Ministry budgets in a perpetual state of belt - tightening, throwing more money at courts, crowns, cops and (if anyone remembers to save the table scraps) legal aid, only scratches the surface.

It accused Legal Aid's law society managers of allowing far too much money to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research hours claLegal Aid's law society managers of allowing far too much money to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research hours clalegal research hours claimed.

So significant is the book and its content that the Criminal Bar Association and Young Legal Aid Lawyers have raised sufficient crowdfunded money to ensure that a copy of it is sent to every UK Member of Parliament.

See also: (1) «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (pdf; posted on the SSRN on, May 21, 2014); and, (2) «Self - Represented Litigants» Tax Money Provides More Funding for Legal Aid Ontario,» (posted on Slaw, on July 31, 2015).

Even with a large surplus and an annual provincial budget of $ 46 billion, the CBA has been told by the government there is no new money for legal aid, because each department must balance its own budget, says Shorten.

After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

For months, representatives from the Access to Justice Commission and legal aid groups have been meeting with members of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and the Governor's staff to talk about two things: how legal aid can help Wisconsin residents resolve their legal problems more efficiently and how that assistance helps the state save money.

We have already made clear our intention to introduce price competition in the criminal legal aid market, as the best way to ensure long - term sustainability and value for money.

Access to civil legal aid ensures fairness for all in the justice system, without regard to how much money you have.

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thLegal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in thlegal services in the US.

Too often we hear that Legal Aid has refused to help because they don't have enough money.

A number of the people who fall into the A2J gap are «problem clients» who «have money problems because they refuse to lower their standard of living and try to abuse pro bono programs and legal aid clinics,» Achimalbe writes.

The next time anyone at Legal Aid Ontario tells you they're short of money, don't believe it.

Given that large law firms donate fees, the 2nd Circuit's decision could reduce the amount of money donated to legal aid groups — but that's not the concern that they expressed in the press release.

(Source: StatsCan) But since the delivery of legal aid varies across the country, it's difficult to determine if the provinces are using the money in the best way possible.

Lawyers who service legal aid cases use it because it makes them more cost - efficient, therefore it helps them earn money.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

One of his most telling findings is that we'd save signficant public money if we were able to broaden the reach of legal aid:

Aaron pointed out that so often, the profession gets trapped in thinking of limited solutions like more money for legal aid, but when the numbers are this stark, that alone can't be the solution.

However, lawyers in public - service jobs who made the least money, like public defenders or Legal Aid attorneys, were most likely to report being happy.

I thought it might be helpful to clarify, in her case where we're talking about legal aid there's a very well defined number and gap and need, and it's not the same thing that we talk about when we're talking about all the opportunities to make money by changing the way we package services.

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said: «These reforms will ensure that we have a legal aid system which is targeted at those who need it most, in the most serious cases, as well as providing value for money to the taxpayer.»

The LSC argues that to meet the aims of quality, efficiency among suppliers, and value for money, a BVT system should be introduced for criminal legal aid services.

The debate over legal aid in the UK has been an all or nothing basis — either legal aid will get money, or it won't, and so people either will have access to justice or they won't.

News that the government had located the magic money tree for its # 1.5 bn deal with the DUP prompted (unsurprisingly) renewed calls for more funding for legal aid; you can read Catherine Baksi's article about this here.

The first is the likelihood that spending money on legal aid leads to significant savings for the public purse elsewhere.

More money for legal aid, while a good idea, maybe, is unrealistic given the crushing debt load this government has heaped upon itself, and us.

Traditional thinking has been to attempt to increase the supply to deal with the demand: more lawyers, more money for legal aid, more clinics, more judges, more courts, etc..