Sentences with phrase «legal aid practitioners»

The mostly legal aid practitioners gave their overwhelming support to a motion tabled last year by Roger Peach, a solicitor at Southampton law firm Peach Grey & Co..

At last October's Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference, the justice minister Jonathan Djanogoly insisted that he was committed to a future role for NfP agencies: «However, much like legal aid service provision itself, changes will need to be made if we are to be able to develop a sustainable provision in these areas.»

Legal Aid Practitioners Group director Richard Miller says: «The evidence shows that the Birmingham and Liverpool PDS offices performed worse in quality terms than the average of all private practice firms in their region, while the other offices performed only a little better than average.

Legal aid practitioners will probably say that they are too busy surviving on meagre levels of pay to read it.

Legal Aid Practitioners Group committee member and family lawyer, Wendy Hewstone said: «We are very worried about cases where there is a dispute over where the child lives, about contact to children or issues such as taking children abroad permanently.

The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) hopes to raise more cash and garner a more powerful voice with the launch of Friends of LAPG.

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Nominations for the 16th Legal Aid Practitioners Group Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards are now open

They emphasise the need for legal aid practitioners to be independent of the state and, thereby:

The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) has finally found a replacement for Richard Miller who left to join the Law Society last August.

Closely linked to the issue of cherry - picking was the risk posed by the Carter reforms to specialist legal aid practitioners whose cases tended to be more complex.

Carol Storer, director, Legal Aid Practitioners Group, said: «We remain worried about the effect on quality, that organisations who do this work now and do it well may be replaced by organisations that don't.

Panel memberships: Resolution; Association of Lawyers for Children; Associate member of NAGALRO; Association of Women Solicitors; Legal Aid Practitioners Group; and Affiliate member of Chartered Management Institute

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid is a relatively new APPG which is hosted by the Legal Aid Practitioners» Group and the Young Legal Aid Lawyers.

On 9 October 2015, the Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) once again joined the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) for their annual conference in Birmingham, this year called: «Legal Aid: The Future».

Until now, it has been possible in England and Wales to use legal aid and its committed practitioners as a rallying point — as the Legal Aid Practitioners Group and, more widely, the Legal Action Group have done.

The APPG on Legal Aid (the Group) was established in July 2009, and is co-sponsored by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) and Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL).

Carol Storer is director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.

This is of course far from the truth with legal aid practitioners working at rates and returns which place substantial economic burden on them to maintain practice.

Resolution and the Legal Aid Practitioners Group issued this joint statement on 30 March 2016 calling on the LAA to «see sense, take a pragmatic approach, and not force people to use a system that is clearly not fit for purpose» until improvements have been made.

We are grateful to the Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Garden Court Chambers Housing Team for their assistance in preparing this consultation response.

If it doesn't, legal aid practitioners are faced with a stark choice: sign the contract or stop doing legal aid work.

Legal Aid Practitioners Group director Richard Miller says: «Legal aid is under threat as never before.

Sir Bill Callaghan, chairman of the LSC, reflected on that point at last year's Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference.

We will continue to support him and harmonise our work with the Law Society to enhance high level representation for legal aid practitioners in these troubled times.»

The numbers of legal aid practitioners are declining fast.

Accusing the government of «wilful blindness», Richard Miller, chair of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, says: «The introduction of fixed fees in October is to go ahead.

Its problems are depressingly similar to ours: legal aid practitioners under pressure; strikes and the threat of strikes by practitioners; a government seeking to squeeze resources; pressure on discretionary elements of the budget.

Nominations have opened for the 16th annual Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards (the LALYs).

hus, Ontario's clinic network appears to have a wider group of friends in its legislature then do legal aid practitioners in social welfare law in ours.

We might remind ourselves that, whatever lawyers — particularly legal aid practitioners — were saying in October 1985, actually they had never had it so good.

More than 500 legal aid practitioners gathered in London this week for the Legal Aid Practitioner's Group's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (Laly) awards.

Conferences in Birmingham (organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)-RRB- and Belfast (the Public Interest Litigation Support project) discussed the future for legal aid practitioners.

Finally, legal aid is still breaking new ground in the cases it funds — and that legal aid practitioners so effectively carry out.

Meanwhile, ongoing meetings will take place between the CLSA, London Criminal Court Solicitors Association, Criminal Bar Association and Legal Aid Practitioners Group to decide what happens next.

CCMS: the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) for civil legal aid was the subject of a recent survey of legal aid lawyers by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG).

LAL gives legal aid practitioners free access to online services and facilities that normally have to be purchased at considerable cost.

Legal aid practitioners group (LAPG) co-chair Jenny Beck said: «We are appalled that the government has not modified its response despite 5,000 responses to the consultation.

Carol Storer, Director of Legal Aid Practitioners Group said:

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.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers nominated Gwendolen in recognition of her relentless work promoting and protecting human rights, helping vulnerable clients, and advocating for legal aid practitioners.

YLAL hosted two workshops at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) Conference on Friday 9 October 2009.

Housing law specialist and winner of Legal Aid Practitioners Group gong remains positive in face of cuts

It is organised jointly by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) and Young Legal Aid Lawyers.

Law Society President Lucy Scott - Moncrieff says: «This and recent similar cases dramatically illustrate the pressures on so many parts of the profession — the obvious pressures on PI and legal aid practitioners are to the forefront.»

Law Society legal aid manager, Richard Miller, says: «Given the strength of opposition from legal aid practitioners, we are pleased that the LSC has acknowledged many of the problems posed by BVT and will now give careful consideration to the issues before any further steps to implement it are taken.»

A Liverpool solicitor described by judges as «like a dog with a bone» in his work on behalf of families of Hillsborough victims has won recognition at Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (LALYs), organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

Heather provided an update on the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) annual conference on 9 October 2015.

Jenny Beck, co-chair of Legal Aid Practitioners Group, welcomed the decision, saying that it «will enable efficient and targeted legal advice and representation to be given to those most in need.