However, a number
of Legal Aid service provider organisations do offer such services depending on the matter at hand.
Despite a projected budget surplus of nearly $ 900 million, there is no new funding
for legal aid services in the province.
The total budget for
civil legal aid services for the next two years, including the maintenance increase, is approximately $ 23 million.
This seems like a very positive change and it surely will increase the number of individuals who will be eligible to
receive Legal Aid services.
The purpose of the program is to
strengthen legal aid service and assistance to the poor by providing loan repayment assistance to attorneys.
The proposal to withdraw services province - wide was reached after no agreement was forthcoming on increased government funding to
restore legal aid services.
At one end of the scale, people of means can afford to hire lawyers; at the other end, very poor people often qualify
for legal aid services.
(1) LSUC's self - interested and conflicted management of Legal Aid Ontario (1967 - 1997); to assuage its fears of LAO's expansion to accommodate socialized law and consequentially LSUC's being removed for the same reasons that are now causing the problem — conflict of interest and refusal to innovate, which resulted in the Ontario
Legal Aid Services Act, 1998;
The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision today in Potter v. New Brunswick
Legal Aid Services Commission overturning both the Trial Court and Court of Appeal decisions that David Potter had voluntarily resigned from his position.
As there were estimated to be over 1,600 firms providing
criminal legal aid services, this meant that many hundreds of firms would no longer be able to carry out duty work at police stations and would therefore be at risk of going out of business.
The legal professionals are volunteer attorneys from both the MISSION UNITED Veterans Pro Bono Project
at Legal Aid Service of Broward County (VPBP) and the Collaborative Family Law Professionals of South Florida.
Representing Abused, Abandoned, Neglected Unaccompanied Minors in State Court Proceedings, Continuing Legal Education Pro Bono Seminars held in January, 2003 (co-sponsored by Children & Youth Law Clinic, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center and the American Immigration Lawyers Association; March, 2003 (co-sponsored by FIAC and Holland & Knight); and July, 2003 (co-sponsored
by Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Broward Lawyers Care, and FIAC).
It was developed for Legal Assistance of Western New York and
Idaho Legal Aid Services by Urban Insight as a bookmarklet.
(a) providing consistently high
quality legal aid services in a cost - effective and efficient manner to low - income individuals throughout Ontario;
Through her lawyering at
Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, her volunteer work and her leadership in the Mi» kmaq First Nation, she demonstrates a strong personal commitment to putting others first.
This includes for example a focus on prevention and early intervention programs, such as Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria's Sisters Day Out program or Central Australian
Aboriginal Legal Aid Service's Kunga Stopping Violence Project.
Although the judicare model was the primary means through
which legal aid services were proposed to be provided, the Joint Committee also recommended the establishment of «duty counsel,» lawyers paid to attend court to provide summary advice and assistance to those who had not yet been able to retain counsel or obtain a legal aid certificate.
President Obama issued a special proclamation celebrating the 35th birthday of a US national civil
legal aid service through the establishment of a legal service corporation.
I currently take referrals
from Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) for assistance with obtaining set - aside orders of arrests or convictions and other cases involving restoration of certain rights, relief from registration requirements or reductions in fines and fees.
Earlier this year LAG revealed, in support of its contention, that # 117m less had been spent
on legal aid services than the Legal Advice Agency budgeted for.
As we do not normally take on legally aided cases, if you think you may be eligible, you should contact the Law Society of Scotland or a firm of solicitors which offers
legal aid services before contacting us.
TUC Report finds women and children have been disproportionately affected by the devastating impact of LASPO, by Emma Fitzsimons Prior its enactment, campaigners warned that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO») 1 would decimate legal aid, deny access to justice to thousands of vulnerable litigants and prove to be a false economy, shifting the burden to an already understaffed court system and
overburdened legal aid services sector.
Daoust makes nine recommendations for
improving legal aid services and goes into great detail about all of them in the heart of his 68 - page report «Foundation for change»:
LSS also established in 2010 a new community engagement department to
ensure legal aid services meet local needs particularly in rural and remote communities.»
Of all the applications, almost 500,000 were approved for
full legal aid services (including providing information, advice, and representation in court), down one per cent from the previous year.
An e-mail obtained by the Star says Legal Aid Ontario is projecting a deficit of $ 46.7 million this year, despite the recent provincial government decision to invest an additional $ 150 million in
legal aid services over the next four years.»
In the less populous provinces and territories, it really wouldn't make much more than a symbolic or token contribution as the costs of
legal aid services continue to rise.
The safety, dignity, and well - being of women and children are at stake
when legal aid services are deeply underfunded, as they are currently in British Columbia.
«Recently word came that NBCUniversal Foundation's 21st Century Solutions
awarded Legal Aid Service the $ 50,000 grant in recognition of the service's «new and innovative programs.»»
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