Sentences with phrase «legal aid reform»

Despite this, the government's 50 - page response, published on 22 June, rejected all the criticisms and promised that the reforms would go ahead as planned (see Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report, Cm 7158).

«The legal aid reform process is being run in a way that would shame a banana republic and discredits the LSC.

Last Friday, 22 June, the government issued a 51 - page document entitled Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report (Cm 7158).

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) has published further proposals in relation to legal aid reform, this time covering police station and duty work.

The LSC told the committee that there were 11 consultations on the present criminal legal aid reform proposals, seven on civil legal aid and one cross-cutting consultation.

The House of Commons Justice Committee in the UK recently released its report on the impact of civil legal aid reform on access to justice and here is a response from the UK Law Centres Network.

Prior to law school Zara was a front - line community advocate for over a decade, working extensively on issues involving violence against women and children, anti-racism, immigrant and refugee issues, legal aid reform, custody and access advocacy, anti-poverty initiatives and specific coalition work with South Asian women.

Ken Clarke in the recent Green Paper on legal aid reform [PDF] claims that people should not resort to legal professionals to resolve disputes.

In introducing LASPO the Government agreed to review each policy between three and five years after implementation date together with «a wider review of the entire package of Legal Aid Reform policies implemented following the June 2011 Legal Aid consultation».

Does the government's new schedule for legal aid reform provide hope or just delay?

Link to EDM 537 Legal Aid Reform Link to progress on the Legal Services Bill

As a separate measure to the wider programme of legal aid reform as set out in «Legal Aid Reform: The Way Ahead» the financial eligibility limits for legal aid for domestic violence victims will be raised and both income and capital limits will be able to waived, by the LSC, on a discretionary basis from 9 April 2007.

Legal Aid reform is controversial but necessary: «The reaction from the legal profession will be hysterical.

In view of this comprehensive change programme, it's important to emphasise that the recently announced Magee Review will be looking at the way legal aid is delivered and not the legal aid reform programme.

Still to be tackled is legal aid reform.

Notably the 1998 reforms were also accompanied by legal aid reform.

It says that, unlike the civil unified contract, the general criminal contract (GCC) was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced, therefore providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

Legal aid reform in Canada is one of the issue that the Canadian Bar Association has been advocating for a number of years; see their website on «Legal Aid in Canada» and, in particular, their resolutions and Litigation Strategy.

This proposal surfaced in a new discussion paper called Legal Aid and the Public Interest (which accused the government of having «lost its way» over legal aid reform).

Ed Stradling's exclusive mini-documentary on what he finds to be the dangers of legal aid reform proposals.

The high court has ruled Grayling's legal aid reforms to be illegal, in a devastating blow for the justice secretary

It's yet another nail in the coffin for Chris Grayling's misguided, destructive and shambolic legal aid reforms.

A minority of respondents felt that men can be more adversely affected by legal aid reforms because they are less likely to qualify for legal aid now; private family law was singled out as an area were men may be marginalised, particularly in disputes over contact with children.

«Some people have blamed the shrinking PI market but the Jackson reforms do not come in until April, and the legal aid reforms have not yet been fully implemented.

Legal Aid reforms in the single family court have further implications for family lawyers and their clients.

The Constitutional Affairs Committee Evidence 20th February on Legal Aid reforms — See what the Head of Legal Services Commission has to say on the implementation of the Carter Proposals.

The government has announced a delay in implementing the legal aid reforms.

For those following the legal aid reforms debate in the UK, another article from the BBC that looks at the ramifications of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act which took many civil cases out of the scope of legal aid in April 2013.

The accountancy firm says that an expected tightening in lending strategy, combined with the expected effects of the Legal Services Bill and Lord Carter's legal aid reforms, will force the firms to merge or go into insolvency.

In its attack on the government's plans for implementing Lord Carter's legal aid reforms (see Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid HC 223, 1 May 2007) the Constitutional Affairs Committee commented severely on the lack of relevant data:

This is just one, albeit, extreme, example of the impact legal aid reforms are having on the community in which we operate.

«I genuinely believe «access to justice» is the hallmark of a civilised society,» wrote the then justice secretary Ken Clarke as he introduced his legal aid reforms.

In its respons [1] e to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) reportinto the access to justice implications of legal aid reforms, published this week, the MoJ introduced two new categories of exemption - successful asylum seekers and refugees who didn't claim asylum in the UK but are resettled or transferred here.

In 2010, when the green paper proposing the legal aid reforms was published, it contained the following passage: «We recognise that the proposals to reduce the scope of legal aid will, if implemented, lead to an increase in the number of litigants representing themselves in court in civil and family proceedings.

The LSC's data sets, especially for criminal legal aid, had been acknowledged to be incomplete, so a full impact assessment of the criminal legal aid reforms on BME clients could not be undertaken.

The criticisms of just about every aspect of the government's plans for implementation of the Carter legal aid reforms by the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee were so severe as to raise a serious question about whether the reforms can go ahead as planned.

In its response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) reportinto the access to justice implications of legal aid reforms, published this week, the MoJ introduced two new categories of exemption - successful asylum seekers and refugees who didn't claim asylum in the UK but are resettled or transferred here.

Andrew Holroyd, Law Society vice president, says: «The SGM highlights the strength of feeling among solicitors about the current legal aid reforms.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

As the justice committee takes evidence on the impact of legal aid reforms the figures already show dramatic changes

In its report on the civil legal aid reforms two years ago, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee concluded that LASPO has «harmed access to justice» for some litigants (page 75, para 50) and that the MoJ should take steps to remedy the problems it had identified.

This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.

«Mr Justice Ryder's report however, does not address the increase in relatives who, due to the legal aid reforms, will have to represent themselves in court in order to secure a residence or special guardianship order that could provide a child at risk with a safe, permanent home.

Ensuring there is fair access to the family justice system: The legal aid reforms created by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) have had a severe impact on the ability of vulnerable people to access family justice.

Not exact matches

The reforms would also create financial savings, notably a cut in the costs of Legal Aid to those contesting cases in the family courts.

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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.

Campaigners against legal aid cuts won a major victory today, after the court of appeal allowed a case to go ahead on the impact of the reform on prisoners.

And IDC is backing calls for juvenile justice reform, spending more on Foundation Aid for education and provide legal assistance for immigrants.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.