Sentences with phrase «legal aid solicitors»

He says: «In the current climate, where legal aid solicitors have already experienced a substantial pay cut in real terms over the past ten years and are now being told that the legal aid budget will be frozen until 2009 — 10, I am determined to fight for a fair deal for all.

The committee agreed that NfPs should be paid on the same basis as legal aid solicitors, but urged that care would have to be taken to see that the transitional arrangements were such as to permit NfPs to adjust to the new situation.

And that success means that salaries for lawyers in the UK are going to be proportionately higher than in other comparable economies, and that inevitably filters through to Legal Aid solicitors (and barristers).

Jason Coppel QC, Jonathan Swift QC, Joanne Clement, Christopher Knight and Rupert Paines have previously acted for representative associations of criminal legal aid solicitors in judicial review challenges to the two - tier contracting model and the process by which it was adopted.

More than 1,000 legal aid solicitors took to the streets this week to protest against proposed changes to the legal aid system that they say will hit the poorest members of society.

The Law Society will be studying the Government's decision and supporting evidence, including reports from KPMG and Otterburn, in detail over the coming days and looking at what further measures the Law Society can put in place to help criminal legal aid solicitors.

Criminal legal aid solicitors across England and Wales were divided on whether to take direct action this week over new contract terms.

Criminal legal aid solicitors in the Australian state of Victoria are threatening to go on strike due to low levels of funding.

The proposals, if implemented, will have the effect that many migrants and prisoners will no longer be eligible for legal aid; access to judicial review will be restricted; contracts for criminal work will be the subject of competitive tendering; and fees paid to legal aid solicitors and barristers will be reduced, by more than 50 % in some instances.

«We have an internal email group which contains about 400 different email addresses - all Greater Manchester legal aid solicitors.

There simply won't be enough legal aid solicitors still in business able to cover the emergency police station duties.

Get advice immediately from a legal aid solicitor, law centre, Citizens Advice Bureau or contact us for advice.

If you wish to defend a case, you would usually need help from a legal aid solicitor or an advice agency such as a citizens advice bureau or law centre.

She has also worked as a legal aid solicitor in Northern Australia.

Kaweh Beheshtizadeh, of Barnes, Harrild & Dyer, a former asylum - seeker who was inspired to become an immigration lawyer by seeing how hard his own legal aid solicitor fought for him after he arrived in the UK in 2004, won the Immigration and Asylum law award.

Helen Grant was a legal aid solicitor for 20 years practising in family work.

Not exact matches

The government's austerity cuts have had a huge impact on the number of solicitors taking on legal aid cases, as Chana's experience testifies to.

According to a New Law Journal report published earlier this year, there's been a 25 % decline in the number of solicitors taking civil legal aid cases.

Chana's story is one of the unspoken impacts of the legal aid cuts: the draining of specialist talent from the legal sector as experts on male violence against women and girls can no longer sustain careers as solicitors.

Unable to pay for solicitors and unable to get legal aid, women were forced to represent themselves against their abusers in the court room.

Nicola Hill, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association, said: «These cuts mean that law firms will rapidly go to the wall in their hundreds, leaving people who can't afford to pay privately with only the crumbs of legal aid.

In a classic case of divide and rule, the government recently chose not to slash fees for Crown Court advocacy, while at the same time imposing a second tranche of 8.75 % cuts on solicitors» criminal legal aid fees.

It is unclear if Gove meant to include solicitors in the phrase «representatives of the profession overall», but the fact they were not explicitly mentioned suggests he has no plans to backtrack on cuts to legal aid fees.

Over 100 barristers and solicitors met to discuss cuts to legal aid fees.

The group's solicitor described the decision to reject their legal aid claim as «baffling and appalling».

Both the protesters and their solicitor wish to appeal the ruling but without legal aid it will be virtually impossible.

They certainly weren't essential to the success of the campaign, which instead relied on the hard work of a small but dedicated group and a Judicial Review made possible by legal aid and Leigh Day and Co. solicitors (currently taking on Hunt himself in Lewisham).

As justice secretary, he saw unwelcome headlines over issues including legal aid cuts that sparked an unprecedented walkout by barristers and solicitors, mandatory court charges and an attempt to ban books being sent to prisoners, most of which were later reversed.

When she is not writing, she works as a locum solicitor for the Victorian Legal Aid.

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As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

Rand felt that women were good as solicitors but did not have the fortitude for criminal law, a notion that would not bode well for our classes in which women outnumber men, the legal aid clinic, or our struggling criminal law program.

Seven members of Goldsmith Chambers attended the «Time for Justice — The Law is Broken» event at the House of Commons on the 8th May 2018, organised by the Criminal Bar Association and Young Legal Aid Lawyers, supported by a broad coalition, comprising The Bar Council, Young Bar Association, Criminal Law Solicitors Association and the Justice Alliance.

Clearly, it is essential to allow the pursuit of clinical negligence cases but it is clear that the high contribution levels (which can run to four figures) together with restrictive legal aid rules provide evidence that claimant's solicitors are not utilising the legal aid system.

Ian Brady: the legal challenge by Moors murderer Ian Brady to legal aid rules preventing his solicitor — who is not a member of the Law Society's mental health panel — from representing him before the Mental Health Review Tribunal was unsuccessful.

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Amjid Jabbar, Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors, discusses Gove's decision to end planned cuts to legal aid for The Barrister.

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On 1st July 2015 many Criminal solicitors across the country began an indefinite boycott of Legal Aid work to demonstrate their opposition to the imposition of an 8.75 % cut in the rates of Legal Aid.

CALS created Castle Park Solicitors in response to the UK's cuts in legal aid.

Cuts to legal aid mean that many people can not afford to see a solicitor even for a one - off meeting.

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A Liverpool solicitor described by judges as «like a dog with a bone» in his work on behalf of families of Hillsborough victims has won recognition at Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (LALYs), organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.

Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Peirce, won Legal Champion for his campaign against legal aid cuts through the Justice AlliLegal Champion for his campaign against legal aid cuts through the Justice Allilegal aid cuts through the Justice Alliance.

In Cunningham, solicitor - client privilege addressed a situation in which the lawyer had a dispute with his client when the lawyer tried to withdraw a legal aid case.

The claimant solicitors received civil legal aid funding while acting for clients in appeals against homelessness decisions under s 204 of the Housing Act 1996 (HA 1996)(s 204 appeals).

Solicitors say the low means test for legal aid is a stumbling block for detainees — clients rarely have the necessary financial documents with them at their appointment, and often have difficulties accessing this information in detention.

The cuts will impact on the number of students seeking to pursue a career in legal aid, training contracts will be hard to come by and increasingly competitive and there will be increased job insecurity for newly qualified solicitors.

23 October 2009: Gwendolen Morgan, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP and founding member of Young Legal Aid Lawyers, was last night highly commended in the Junior Lawyer of the Year category of the Law Society Excellence Awards 2009.

Our team of fraud solicitors have acted on behalf of a number of professionals both on a legal aid and a private basis in cases ranging from computer / internet - related criminal offences and boiler room and mortgage frauds.