Sentences with phrase «legally aided work»

How are we going to ensure that the scope of legally aided work is not now dramatically narrowed?

Practice in legally aided work must be made sustainable and sufficiently attractive, and that will not be achieved without increased legal aid rates and without limiting the demands placed on individuals to what is reasonable for those fee rates.

Not exact matches

Both draft Orders also require the LSC to implement maximum fixed and hourly rates for all legally aided expert witness work, with effect from October 2011.

If the accused was legally aided, or without funds to pay further fees, the defence lawyer would just have to give up another evening or two doing the unpaid work preparing the application for permission to call the real culprit as a witness.

YLAL remains extremely concerned that the introduction of competitive tendering on this scale will compromise the quality of legally aided representation available to defendants, with contracts being awarded to those organisations who will undertake the work for the lowest price.

A couple of the proposals put forward recognised that solicitors need to be working well with the mediators, perhaps better than before April 2013 when legally aided lawyers tended only to take over after mediation had finished.

«Access to justice and «value for money» for publicly funded legal work, which are major considerations behind the current reform proposals, are not only about the quantity of legally aided acts, but equally about the quality, nature and adequate geographic spread of those acts of assistance.»

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

It is especially regrettable that barristers are effectively penalised for doing legally aided family work, rather than privately paying work, and that this is hitting women and black and minority ethnic advocates hardest of all.»