Sentences with phrase «legal aid rates»

In the meantime, the small firms are serving millions of clients at affordable rates including, where appropriate, at legal aid rates, including, where justified, pro bono.

Also, some companies offer Legal Aid rates in the relevant circumstances so make sure you tell the LSP upfront before they quote!

Legal aid rates paid by the Legal Aid Agency and prosecution rates, which are roughly aligned to them, have fallen considerately.

My position might well be very different if we heard that the new revenue being collected off of HST on legal fees was to be invested in enhancing legal aid rates for those who currently can not adequately obtain representation.

Practice in legally aided work must be made sustainable and sufficiently attractive, and that will not be achieved without increased legal aid rates and without limiting the demands placed on individuals to what is reasonable for those fee rates.

«Inflation has already eroded the value of legal aid rates by over 40 % since they were last increased over 20 years ago — and repeated rate cuts on top of this have left the criminal defence sector hanging by the thread of the goodwill of dedicated legal aid lawyers.

A B.C. Supreme Court decision has posed an interesting debate: do legal aid rates provide the accused with a fair trial, and, the ability to assembling an adequate defence team?

The majority never discusses legal aid rates or the remuneration ordered by the trial judges in the cases under appeal — a curious omission in a decision that arose because of rates of pay.

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«The reality is that you can no longer give the standard of service needed on legal aid rates.»

Justice Stromberg - Stein pointed out that the comparison should not be between what LSS could pay and what the AG's department could spend on counsel but rather if B.C.'s legal aid rate fell below the standard offered by other provinces to enable the accused to obtain counsel.

The committee then turned to the ultimate goal of the reform proposals, the adoption of a market - based system where legal aid rates would be determined by competitive tendering for block contracts.

Those instructed on ever decreasing legal aid rates, who often have to comply with increasing procedural and regulatory burdens, are being squeezed; those in the personal injury field are dogged by costs budgeting and tight deadlines; while those involved in big money commercial and other privately - funded cases, where money is often no object, are flourishing.

Legal aid rates for solicitors in a two - day trial in the Crown Court work out as below the London living wage of # 9.75 per hour».

The amount payable is set out by regulations depending on where the case was heard; since October 2012 it has been set at legal aid rates, which are unlikely to cover a full defence team.

The criminal justice system is under unprecedented pressure: police numbers are being slashed, our courts are creaking and legal aid rates for defence lawyers have been frozen for years.

The MoJ is also proposing that fees paid to advocates appointed by the court to cross-examine victims of abuse will be cut from private to legal aid rates.

In the event that the Lord Chancellor's proposals proceed, the Law Society will press the MoJ to work with the Society to develop a support package, and commission and publish, before any further cuts in legal aid rates, an impact assessment of the initial cuts and other changes on the working of the criminal justice system and defence solicitor practitioners.»

«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.

In February, its consultation, «Litigators» Graduated Fees Scheme and Court Appointees» proposed reducing the number of prosecution pages used to calculate the graduated fee from 10,000 to 6,000 and limiting costs payable to court appointees to legal aid rates, in Crown Court cases.

Costs recoverable in both the Magistrates Court and the Crown Court are limited to legal aid rates.

Part of this — but only a part — relates specifically to legal aid rates, on account of how we think it's a bit unfair that junior criminal barristers are often working 80 - hour weeks for rates sometimes working out as low as 50p per hour, and are concerned that bright young barristers are being forced out of the profession.

«What is a comparator is the legal aid rate paid in other provinces.

It accepted that where the conditions for a proper market existed, legal aid rates would best be set by providers bidding for contracts on the basis of quality, capacity and price.

Two months later, Justice Strekaf imposed the penalty for the contempt, ordering the Tsuu T'ina Nation to pay «reasonable costs and expenses» of the three residents, as well as their legal costs (although only at the legal aid rate).

If further cuts in legal aid rates are imposed then there is evidence that this will spread to cases involving serious child abuse too.»

The rates set by the court in these cases exceeded the Legal Aid rate in each of these cases because the amicus curiae refused these lower rates.

The Attorney General sought to pay the Legal Aid rate because they proposed these amicus curiae played a role similar to defence counsel.