Sentences with phrase «of fee remissions»

`... the impact of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeals Tribunal, including the scheme of fee remissions, to determine how successful this has been in achieving the original objectives:

In the world of fee remission (see 157 NLJ 7291, p 1382), there are some helpful changes — the extension of the definition of a child to a young person in respect of whom child benefit is paid and increases in gross income limits and fixed allowances for children and partners and general living expenses for means assessment purposes.

But today almost all the funding has been withdrawn for contract cases: all that remains is a litigation subsidy in the form of fee remission.

Not exact matches

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

Second, when at the date the fee would otherwise become payable there is an undetermined application for remission which is later refused then the fee will become payable within seven days of despatch of notification of refusal of the remission application or the later of at least 28 days prior to the trial date or the Monday of the first week of the notified trial period.

The fees are now much higher, the remission forms are more complicated and instead of taking them to the local county court hearing centre they must be posted to the County Court Money Claims Centre, which operates out of a post box in Salford.

Fee remission is a promising new head of business in which an enterprising lawyer, trainee or paralegal could establish a niche market and maybe bring on the rain to mitigate the legal aid drought.

The Supreme Court stated that for the fees to be lawful they have to be set at a level everyone can afford taking into account potential remission of fees.

Since 29 July 2013, unless they are entitled to a remission on account of limited means, fees are payable by a claimant or appellant bringing a claim in the employment tribunal or an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal («EAT»).

A central ground of this challenge was that the fees were set at such a level and the remission criteria was so restricted that many claimants would be unable to afford to bring a claim in the tribunals.

This incorporates a consultation and proposals for reform of the existing remission scheme under which qualifying claimants can receive help with paying the fees required to bring a claim.

Underhill LJ referred to an internal government review of the fees regime, however, and noted that the decline in claims was «sufficiently startling to merit a very full and careful analysis of its causes; and if there are good grounds for concluding that part of it is accounted for by claimants being realistically unable to afford to bring proceedings the level of fees and / or the remission criteria will need to be revisited».

In certain circumstances payment of the court fee may be deferred if the Appellant's solicitors are operating under a CFA which imposes the liability to pay the court fees on the Appellant personally and the solicitor confirms that the Appellant would be eligible for fee remission and provides the necessary supporting evidence.

For instance, when setting the new level of fees (and any scheme of remission) it will be important that this is done so as not to preclude or discourage people from bringing claims purely on a financial basis.

Any request for fee remission should be made to the Registrar, supported by evidence of the party's means.