Sentences with phrase «legal aid systems»

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of one of the strongest legal aid systems in the country and to help shape the direction of civil legal services provided to vulnerable and marginalized communities throughout Massachusetts.

Where does Canada stand globally, measured against reasonably comparable legal aid systems in Commonwealth nations?

And thanks to the recession, legal aid systems are being cut back in the US, the UK and Canada, while the number of people applying for legal aid is growing.

Even with constraints of the current fiscal realities, or perhaps because of them, legal aid systems have the infrastructure, the expertise and the resources to contribute significantly to expanding access to justice in Canada.

In its consultation document, the MoJ quotes (at para 3.43) a report commissioned from the University of York into comparative international legal aid systems.

It investigated the legal aid systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden and compared these to the system in England and Wales.

The Justice Secretary said that «we currently have one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world ``.

The former chief whip was brought back to a frontline Cabinet role to oversee Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act; continue to «review our legal aid systems» (as the party's manifesto euphemistically put it); as well as stave off a brewing crisis in our prisons, sort out a demoralised police force etc..

The government says the cuts are a vital way to reduce expenditure on one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world.

But thanks to this government's vision of a «transformed legal aid system» in Norfolk, Wales and parts of London there won't be a publicly funded lawyer around to give critical advice at a critical time.

He now has an opportunity to show some humility, and come to the table with legal professionals to re-examine the reforms to the legal aid system before any further damage is done.

Yesterday Chris Grayling, who is both Minister of State for Justice (dismantling the legal aid system) and Lord Chancellor (sworn to uphold the rule of law), gave evidence before the House of Commons Justice Committee.

Our national, decentralized, legal aid system is an important part of the access to justice landscape in Canada.

What would help A2J is proper funding of the legal aid system, simplification of court procedures, assistance to self represented litigants among many other things.

The second was the recent report of the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee, which examined the legal aid system in Canada.

From the coverage in the legal press, you might think that the «crisis» was limited to the parlous state of legal aid system, but that 40 % cut will cover the entire MoJ budget including prisons and probation as well as our courts.

But with training contracts gradually evaporating and government reforms of legal aid system kicking in, could the party be over?

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.

The legal aid system plays a crucial role in promoting access to justice at proportionate costs in key areas.

We also need to look again at ensuring that defendants who can afford to contribute to their legal costs do so and that the legal aid system commands the confidence of the public.

Tell your family, friends, neighbours, MP, and everyone in the pub about what the Government intends to do to the legal aid system and why it is important to stop the cuts.

The Mythbuster addresses misleading spin about the cost of legal aid, the pay of legal aid lawyers, judicial review and comparisons between the legal aid system in England and Wales and other countries.

The legal aid system should encourage social mobility and diversity in the legal profession; and

• The legal aid system is failing needy individuals and families, the justice system, and our communities.

Justice Pazaratz proceeds to illustrate how both parties in this protracted and pointless family law dispute were represented through legal aid at enormous expense, not just to the legal aid system, but the justice system forced to preside over the proceedings,

Yesterday, the Public Commission on Legal Aid in British Columbia released its report and probably to no one's surprise said the B.C. legal aid system has been so denuded that it can't provide even the most basic services.

Being conscious of the dire shortage of civil legal aid lawyers in Auckland since punitive changes were made to the legal aid system, I took him on and increased the legal aid, low bono and pro bono cases I took on.

[1] The argument is that if the civil legal aid system [2] is viewed by the middle class as a program that could benefit them if they encounter trouble, rather than being only for the poor, a wider segment of the public will have a stake in access to justice and they will support higher levels of public funding.

There is a real risk that such a disregard of the separation of powers and the constitutional role and institutional capacity of the different branches of government could undermine the legal aid system and cause a lack of public confidence in judges and the courts.

Similarly, under our publicly funded legal aid system, an Ontarian with a legal aid certificate is free to retain any lawyer he or she wishes, provided that lawyer is prepared to take the case.

The majority makes much of the idea that allowing judges to set the rate of remuneration for amici, whether acting as defence counsel or not, would undermine the current legal aid system paras 55, 72 - 73, 77).

Pro bono can not, and should not, replace a comprehensive legal aid system.

Our legal aid system is still one of the most generous in the world and last year we spent # 1.6 bn on legal aid.

The original draft wanted to create a legal aid system in which the scope of what it covered was fixed, but the then Lord Chancellor, Ken Clark, was forced to amend it and return it pretty much to the system we had before.

The LSS, which runs B.C.'s legal aid system, did not permit billing for work performed by legal assistants.

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said: «These reforms will ensure that we have a legal aid system which is targeted at those who need it most, in the most serious cases, as well as providing value for money to the taxpayer.»

Any measures foisted upon unwilling, unqualified trainees, and designed to replace a state - funded legal aid system, would likely be doomed to fail.

Lord Neuberger on access to justice: The former president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, warned that society will fragment without access to justice and that it is «very hard to defend the current legal aid system», in a speech to the Australian Bar Association reported by Legal Voice and the Law Society Gazette.

An adequate evidence base for policy changes is important: in 2012, the then Government introduced reforms to the legal aid system, in Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

The Committee was «concerned that the reforms to the legal aid system and the introduction of employment tribunal fees have restricted access to justice, in areas such as employment, housing, education and social welfare benefits».

Proposals for further reform of the legal aid system in England and Wales.

«Only additional state funding can protect our civil legal aid system and access to justice for our most vulnerable residents.»

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force on 1 April 2013 and brought significant changes to the civil legal aid system.

Not only was this a manifestation of injustice in itself, but it also raised major political economy problems in terms of the commitment of middle income earners to supporting a legal aid system of which they were never beneficiaries but only contributors as taxpayers, even while they faced similar denials of access to justice themselves.

Ontario took home an «A» in this category, with a legal aid system that has seen steady increases in funding for the last eight years.

The legal aid system in Canada provides more service in civil matters than is available in many places throughout the world.

Over two years ago, one of us (Michael Trebilcock) prepared a review of Ontario's legal aid system for the Ministry of the Attorney General.

The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia branch has hit out at the provincial government for its failure to increase financial support for the province's legal aid system in yesterday's budget.

Nonetheless, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) sticks to its dubious assertion that our legal aid system is «still one of the most generous in the world».

«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.