Sentences with phrase «legal aid work»

Almost one third (31 %) of those firms were considering withdrawing from one or more areas of legal aid work in the next three years.

Another mentions that pay rates for legal aid work have not risen for 20 years and are now actually falling.

Ultimately, further expenditure having been incurred and the costs having mounted, a decision was taken for the respondent to transfer to a firm who did do legal aid work.

We need your help to tell the world about the power of medical - legal partnership and what happens when health care and civil legal aid work together.

Stress, lack of support and juggling legal aid work with other responsibilities are affecting retention in the profession: 21 % of respondents said this is their greatest challenge.

The firm do not undertake legal aid work, so the workload will be entirely privately funded.

Our heritage includes involvement in the foundation of legal aid work early in the 20th century, and today we consistently distinguish ourselves as leaders in pro bono representation.

Should it include legal aid work that is not fully compensated, clients who fail to deliver agreed fees, and volunteering on the boards of non-profits?

Do you want to do Family Mediation legal aid work without the burden of running your own legal aid contract?

If it doesn't, legal aid practitioners are faced with a stark choice: sign the contract or stop doing legal aid work.

The position in regard to general civil legal aid work was the same.

It will require investors and partners who understand the nature of legal aid work but there are some, including those already involved in the provision of related services.

We do not undertake legal aid work but there are often other ways to fund your case.

[The introduction of the general criminal contract in 2001] led to a drop in the number of solicitor offices claiming for criminal legal aid work from around 8500 in 1999/2000 to under 3000 by the time the contract was introduced.

The government had decided, following its defeat in the previous judicial review brought by the practitioner groups and the subsequent re-consultation, to increase the number of duty contracts for criminal legal aid work from 525 to 527.

«High levels of debt combined with low salaries make legal aid work unsustainable for those from lower socio - economic backgrounds» concluded a 2013 study by the Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL).

The government published the long - anticipated results of its consultation, Family Legal Aid Funding from 2010, this week, setting out the rates for fixed fees that will replace hourly rates for family legal aid work in October 2010.

If you want to do legal aid work after 31 August 2018, you must submit a bid by the closing date and time 10 November at 5 pm.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers today (29 March 2018) issues the attached statement, in solidarity with colleagues who have made the difficult decison to take direct action in response to changes to the way in which criminal legal aid work by advocates is remunerated under the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS).

(1) High levels of debt combined with low salaries make legal aid work unsustainable for those from a lower socio - economic background

British Columbia spends 10 per cent of all legal aid funding in the country, with most of the lawyers who do legal aid work in private practice.

The judgment, delivered this week by Mr Justice Moses, quashes the outcome of the recent tender round, under which firms bid against each other for a share of available legal aid work.

The decision means barristers will not take on any new legal aid work once it comes into force, but it is the no - returns policy which could really bring the crown courts to their knees.

The vote means barristers will come out to support solicitors facing 8.75 % cuts to their legal aid fees, which they say would make legal aid work untenable.

«Legal aid work sets precedents on a regular basis and we provide excellent defences to clients who would otherwise be facing the intricacies of the justice system on their own.»

Furthermore, Proclaim's provision for Legal Aid work means all time is automatically recorded - available for users to effortlessly upload to the LAA - eliminating duplicate data entry and allowing for the submission of bills directly through the Proclaim desktop.

Judges and Crowns too have plenty of opportunities to make legal aid work financially non-viable for defence lawyers — as in this case — again with taxpayers probably unaware.

Taxpayers unconsciously prefer to pay for years of incarceration instead of paying the fractional cost to make legal aid work viable for defence lawyers (that juxtaposition will be fleshed out in a future post on this Blog about a case in which I saved a client from an extra 11 months in jail only to find out that Legal Aid Ontario had basically stopped paying for the services necesary to achieve that result).

The Ministry of Justice also proposed to split criminal legal aid work into two types — «duty» work and «own client» work - with separate contracts for both.

While organizations like Legal Aid work to help people facing difficulties in long - term housing situations, such as unscrupulous landlords or looming foreclosures, you may also have clients that face month - to - month — or even day - to - day — uncertainty about housing.

That is why I was extremely pleased when Convocation approved a report from the Law Society's Legal Aid Working Group on January 25, outlining ways to re-engage with and complement the work of Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) and other organizations.

It is a further development of a process of market failure which has been underway for a long time, accelerated by LASPO, where in many places it is no longer viable to continue legal aid work.

The government published the long - anticipated results of its consultation, Family Legal Aid Funding from 2010, this week, setting out the rates for fixed fees that will replace hourly rates for family legal aid work next October.

Each year, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid works with private law firms to develop partnerships that allow private firms to share their expertise with their local communities.

The legal aid system was «not put in place to guarantee lawyers a comfortable and secure income» but «quality of legal aid work depends in part on an adequate level of remuneration».

«A subsequent bid round may be in a more hostile environment where there is less legal aid work available, and the fact firms aren't in a contract may make it easier for [the LSC] to make cuts.

Although some business does come from word of mouth and people recognising our brand from our street presence and local advertising, we can foresee that in 5 years» time, if a consumer is looking for a legal service such as legal aid work, at least in Scotland, they will search Google for relevant keywords in the first instance.

A spokesman adds: «The new six - month contracts we are introducing in January for criminal legal aid work ensure that we have already taken account of this possible effect of the judgment.»

The new unified contract for the provision of publicly funded civil legal aid work did not conform to the principle of transparency, pursuant to regs 4 (3) and 9 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, (SI 2006/5)(the Regulations).

The recent bidding round cut the number of firms contracted to provide family legal aid work from 2,400 to 1,300.

Criminal legal aid: Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of action in response to changes to the way in which criminal legal aid work by advocates is remunerated under the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS), which comes into force on 1 April 2018, and will result in a significant overall cut in fees.

YLAL members are devoted to legal aid work because they are devoted to social justice for everyone.

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 perennially small - margin practice areas of real estate and estates law remained the most likely for respondents to cut, according to our 2016 survey, with a number also considering cutting the amount of legal aid work they do.

The LAA announced on Thursday 12 October that the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme (HPCDS) tender was open, which meant that all tenders for contracts to do legal aid work from the autumn of 2018 are now live.

(3) Quality criminal legal aid work must be possible It was the Labour government's intention to overhaul the criminal legal aid market so that advice and representation will be delivered by a dramatically reduced number of very large firms.

I was surprised to read that close to one third of firms (31 %) still did legal aid work in 2010 — 2011 and over half of these firms reported that 50 % or more of their clients were legally aided.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

As a former lawyer doing legal aid work, but also as a former minister being regularly advised to follow due process, I understand the tensions between the executive and being held to account.