Sentences with phrase «legal aid schemes»

We also manage certain criminal legal aid schemes.

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 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,

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.

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.

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.

Thinking of possible solutions to the manifold problems afflicting the legal aid scheme is as unenviable a task as anyone could possibly conceive.

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

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?

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

But, particularly for two jurisdictions like the US and England and Wales, where conventional civil legal aid is now hard to get even for cases with a significant public interest, this is a real additional resource — albeit one which could never match universal coverage of an appropriate legal aid scheme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), solicitors provided crucial initial advice for people going through separation under the legal aid scheme, helping them to understand their options and steps they needed to take.

The Law Society or your local citizens» advice bureau will be able to give you the names of solicitors who take part in the Legal Aid scheme and are experienced in these matters.

(5) In considering what order (if any) should be made under subsection (2) in proceedings in which an independent children's lawyer has been appointed, the court must disregard the fact that the independent children's lawyer is funded under a legal aid scheme or service established under a Commonwealth, State or Territory law or approved by the Attorney ‑ General.

Most commonly, this assistance is provided through a legal aid scheme where respondent parties to native title claims receive reimbursement for the legal fees they incur in native title proceedings.

Not exact matches

A funding scheme for children requiring legal aid in exceptional circumstances found only 50 of them had applied between October 2013 and September 2014, alongside 95 young adults.

introduce a compensation scheme for patients when things have gone wrong as a consequence of contracting avoidable healthcare infections, giving access to legal aid

«This is a scheme by landlords to evade the rent laws,» said Legal Aid staff attorney Kathleen Brennan, who brought the case on behalf of a group of homeless occupants at 60 Clarkson Ave.

The Mass led by Ms. Jayanit Patro, Nari Rashmi Samaj, Kaincha Matia, Women Legal aid cell counselor, Basnati Murumu, Nari Unnati Samaj, Hemal Soren, Nari Jayasri Samaj, rushed to the collector's office without and protection by police and government officials, presented the overall issues and problems of entitlement schemes and its failure before the district administration which was tremendous process of community empowerment by which the socially excluded groups / communities asserted their rights and entitlements.

MPs were invited to attend the event prior to the EDM debate in Parliament to revoke the Statutory Instrument on Criminal Legal Aid remuneration bringing in the new AGFS scheme.

Referring to Lord Young's proposed investigation of a national scheme they comment «the fact that only half a page out of the 224 - page legal aid consultation paper is devoted to the topic suggests that it is no panacea and, in fact, it is a very problematic product.».

Last year, the Administrative Court held that the ECF scheme is unlawful as it gives rise to an unacceptable risk that people will not be able to obtain legal aid where required by the European Convention on Human Rights or under EU law.

One of the most contentious aspects of the hugely controversial Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) relates to the «mandatory telephone gateway» whereby those relatively few people still entitled to what is left of the legal scheme will be obliged to pick up the phone before they receive any adLegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) relates to the «mandatory telephone gateway» whereby those relatively few people still entitled to what is left of the legal scheme will be obliged to pick up the phone before they receive any adlegal scheme will be obliged to pick up the phone before they receive any advice.

While there is likely to be a cost to the legal aid fund of any new scheme this has to be set against the current cost to the fund of proceedings under the Trusts of Land and ppointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Sch 1 of the Children Act 1989.

For instance, the UK is seeing the emergence of charitable and not - for - profit ABS, while Trebilcock has also written about the potential of our public legal aid agencies to become legal services innovators in the public interest (although that piece looked to a public legal expense insurance scheme as the possible source of capital).