Sentences with phrase «legal aid scheme»

We are committed to ensuring that the criminal legal aid scheme of the future continues to protect people's fundamental right to a defence.

They would advocate for governments to provide better - funded and wider - scope legal aid schemes, more user - friendly court processes and technological innovation in the administration of justice.

Pending the introduction of new legal aid schemes in October 2007 — assuming there are not too many marches in the meantime — the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings (Remuneration)(Amendment) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/742), which came into force on 2 April 2007 harmonise solicitors» pay for private law cases between the county court and the Family Proceedings Court (FPC), and will also cover domestic violence cases.

Civil and family legal aid firms have nearly halved in number since 2007/08, for example, although they shrunk by almost a further quarter in the last year, and the number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme reduced by almost two - thirds in the last four years.

(There is no connection between the State funded legal aid schemes and the volunteer - led Free Legal Advice Centres.)

One of the big ideas of the coalition is to have a «single gateway» or a «simple, straightforward» telephone service to whatever remains of this post-cuts legal aid scheme.

Emergency legal aid schemes for people faced with repossession are to be created in an additional 20 county courts, the Legal Services Commission has announced.

Legal Voice reported on the statistics demonstrating the ongoing shrinkage of the civil legal aid scheme here.

He named a range of litigation funding options that would be available if his final report is implemented — contingency fees, a supplementary legal aid scheme, and «hopefully» a contingent legal aid fund, as well as conditional fee agreements without recoverable success fees.

The Board does not provide direct legal aid or advice in respect of criminal matters, however, it is responsible for the management and administration of 3 ad - hoc criminal legal aid schemes,

How does the promise of ODR shape up in an age which is distinctly one of austerity and where, in England and Wales, the heart has been torn out of a once impressive civil legal aid scheme?

This April will mark the fifth anniversary of the biggest cuts to the legal aid scheme in the UK since it was introduced after the Second World War.

Members of the public wanting advice on debt, discrimination, and education cases under the legal aid scheme have to use the service.

We therefore intend to publish an eight week consultation on further reforms to legal aid in April 2013, which will include proposals to both improve the credibility of the legal aid scheme and reduce its cost to the taxpayer — one of these being price competition in criminal legal aid.The revised indicative timetable for the development and implementation of our competition strategy is, subject to the outcome of consultation, as follows:

We also have a public funding contract and therefore we may be able to advise and assist you under the legal aid scheme.

Inevitably, the media spotlight was distracted from «access to justice» on the day the Bill, the biggest rolling back of the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was published.

The more sinister reason is: that which can be given by politicians can be taken away by them (like adjustments to the legal aid scheme by the dire Mr Grayling or the Tory NHS).

«It's no surprise as the cuts bite, law firms pull out of what remains of the legal aid scheme, not - for - profit advice agencies go to the wall, and then there is the maddening bureaucracy of legal aid,» Robins writes.

People with common civil legal problems, such as difficulties in claiming the benefits they are entitled to, coping with debts or, with problems at work, have nowhere to turn since these cases were cut from the scope of the legal aid scheme.

Growth was stopped in its tracks and we lost about 5 % of potential output from 2010 to 2012 — an irretrievable loss of # 90bn, enough to pay for 270 civil legal aid schemes.

On the government's own figures there were 53,800 cases last year where people received representation before the courts under the legal aid scheme — plus a further 211,000 family cases where people received initial advice and assistance.

These awards highlight the life - changing work that these lawyers do, day in, day out, and also just what would be lost if the government goes ahead with its ill - considered reforms to the legal aid scheme.»

Fixed and graduated fees in all major elements of the legal aid scheme are still planned, but the LSC has agreed to phase in the introduction of some elements of the new fixed fees for family legal aid work.

These are all vital amendments that will assist vulnerable clients; but it is also fair to say that they will do little to soften the blow of an Act that will essentially fillet the legal aid scheme by removing # 350m from a total budget of # 2.2 bn.

In its 60th year, the legal aid scheme, in common with the rest of the public sector, has to live within its means.

The number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme had collapsed by almost two - thirds over the last four years.

This month marks the three - year anniversary of the implementation of the most swingeing cuts to the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in 1949.

Actually, it's no surprise as the cuts bite, law firms pull out of what remains of the legal aid scheme, not - for - profit advice agencies go to the wall, and then there is the maddening bureaucracy of legal aid.

All family cases are to be scrapped under the legal aid scheme unless there is evidence of domestic violence.

Amnesty shine an unforgiving light on the unprincipled and reckless approach of the coalition government to the biggest retreat in the legal aid scheme since it was set up.

But some have also expressed relief that the criminal legal aid scheme has been left largely untouched, as have funding for inquests, judicial reviews and asylum cases.

In order to access legal advice and assistance under the Legal Aid scheme on matters in relation to SEN, there is now a mandatory telephone gateway and individuals must telephone Civil Legal Advice on 0845 345 4345 or use the online enquiry form.

Prior to starting pupillage, she spent a year helping to set up a legal aid scheme in Kenya, which has operated successfully ever since.

Our Mission is to facilitate the effective resolution of civil disputes through the delivery of efficient and accessible legal aid and mediation services and to effectively manage and administer the State's criminal legal aid schemes.

The mechanism for funding exceptional cases outside of the normal framework of the legal aid scheme is failing to provide a sufficient safety net.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

7 October 2004: new on this page: the Scottish Legal Aid Board's proposed scale rates of payment for counsel under the Civil Legal Aid scheme.

It was the Tory - led Coalition government that introduced the mean spirited regime under Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) when it scrapped all forms of private family law from the legal aid scheme.

Many constituents, who might have otherwise found help under the legal aid scheme, end up in their surgeries.

Ministers have been painfully slow to acknowledge any injustices that have flowed from the biggest retrenchment of the legal aid scheme since it was introduced.

As we have repeatedly said, a legal aid scheme that reduces the number of specialist family lawyers able to represent children and families is bad for children, bad for society and bad for the country as a whole.»

By contrast the Lib Dems promised reviews of the civil legal aid scheme, the court fees hikes, the reforms of the defence market and many of the other «access to justice» policies that they signed up to as part of the Coalition over the previous five years.

The criminal legal aid scheme is administered by the Courts Service, with an application being made to the judge who first deals with an accused person.

This year's awards will be the last in their current form due to the changes facing the legal aid scheme.

So in effect, not only is the current state of criminal practice suffering, but also the future of the profession is in jeopardy barring any fundamental change to the legal aid scheme.

The idea of «social welfare law» was not that it was just another part of the legal aid scheme.

The Legal Aid scheme was built on the assumption that access to justice depended on legal services being available, just as access to health depended on medical services.

The Board does not provide direct legal aid or advice in respect of criminal matters, however, it is responsible for the management and administration of 3 ad - hoc criminal legal aid schemes,