Sentences with phrase «of legal aid cuts»
«The Bar Council looks forward to engaging constructively with this review and will continue to press for a wide scope which includes the impact of LASPO on society and considers the combined and interactive effect of legal aid cuts with welfare and other civil justice reforms.»
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According to the Law Centre Federation (LCF), if the government sticks to its programme of legal aid cuts, 18 out of 53 law centres will close.
It is the NfP advice sector as opposed to private practice law firms that will bear the brunt of the legal aid cuts that threaten to slash # 350m from the # 2.2 bn total.
As a solicitors» firm operating in one of the most deprived areas of the country, the impact of the legal aid cuts is startlingly obvious to us.
, NLJ, 6 January 2017, p 8) and the recent Amnesty International report which made the case for reinstating public funding for cases involving young people, welfare benefits, immigration cases involving human rights and initial advice for private family cases («Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice», Amnesty International, 2016).
To cite but two: in recent weeks Steve Hynes shared the damning results of the latest report on the impact of legal aid cuts in this journal (see «Justice denied?»
According to SGI's managing partner, Simon Gibson, the more lucrative work that dates from before the implementation of the legal aid cuts and Jackson reforms to civil litigation in April is «constantly diminishing».
We are a small team of passionate, tech - savvy British social entrepreneurs, looking to democratise access to legal help and advice for people and businesses, in the wake of the legal aid cuts and resulting advice deserts.
October saw the release of reports by Amnesty and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the impact of legal aid cuts.
Notable articles from March included «The politics of pro bono» in Legal Action magazine and this piece for the New Statesman on the real impact of the legal aid cuts.
The Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, hinted that the government may be preparing to begin the long - called for and promised review of the legal aid cuts implemented by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»).
Can an Oscar - winning playwright and a former Eastenders actor succeed where placard - waving lawyers have failed, in drawing to the public's attention the devastating impact of the legal aid cuts?
The privately funded market will not on this occasion be picking up the pieces of legal aid cuts; with the Jackson reforms that private provision is likely to reduce.
The report — Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LASPO.
As lawyers, in recent years we have seen first hand the devastating impact of legal aid cuts and vastly increased court fees on the ability of ordinary people, including our often vulnerable clients, to obtain justice.
Over lunch with Legal Hackette (aka Catherine Baksi), the Conservative chair of the Commons Justice Committee, Bob Neill, said the government got it wrong with the scale of the legal aid cuts.
January started on a positive note: the announcement of the long - awaited review of the legal aid cuts.
This was echoed by Mr Justice Bodey, in a speech to mark his retirement reported by the Guardian, who warned the government of the «shaming impact» of legal aid cuts.
A report setting out the findings of a study by the Young Legal Aid Lawyers, investigating the effect of the legal aid cuts on the ability of MPs to help their constituents (download from below).
Law Society LASPO Report: the Law Society published its report on the consequences of legal aid cuts made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).
The issue of legal aid cuts as a false economy was widely reported by the Guardian, the Law Society Gazette and Buzzfeed.
In announcing her departure from the profession, she said: «I am sick of the legal aid cuts, the lack of access to justice, the systemic delays for my clients, the deprivations of liberty that have become routine where nobody is outraged anymore.
Amnesty is better know for its work in exposing injustice abroad, but expressed deep concerns in its report, The impact of legal aid cuts, about the situation in England and Wales saying the LASPO Act cuts to legal aid had «stripped away a vital element of support for a fair and just legal system».
The Bar Council will continue to press for a wide scope which includes the impact of LASPO on society and considers the combined and interactive effect of legal aid cuts with welfare and other civil justice reforms.»
The experts also took a dim view of litigants in person, whose numbers are widely expected to soar as the impact of legal aid cuts and other funding shortages is felt.
Tuckers are pleased to be supporting FatRat Films in their efforts to raise the remaining funding that they require for their short film animation exposing the folly of legal aid cuts, indeed further legal aid cuts — if the next cut of 8.75 % to criminal legal aid is implemented in the summer of 2015.
Martha spoke about the impact of legal aid cuts as well as the ongoing scandal of indefinite immigration detention.
Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.
Amnesty International International Secretariat research on the human rights impact of legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
Important meeting on the latest round of legal aid cuts, organised by the London School of Economics with the support of Matrix Chambers.
Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.
According to The Law Society Gazette, Blakemores once had an «innovative and fast - growing» operation under the consumer brand «Lawyers2you,» but it was hit hard by a combination of legal aid cuts and the shrinking of the personal injury market.
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.
Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»
It's little wonder that the UK is currently facing a legal challenge from the Children's Society over the impact of the legal aid cuts on unaccompanied or separated children.
Simon Hughes tried to instigate a review of the effect of legal aid cuts on children when he was in the Ministry of Justice, but it was blocked by officials.
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.
Not exact matches
A Christian barrister has said the government's cuts to legal aid will cause «huge amounts of injustice» to people who can not afford to be represented in court.
A Christian barrister has said the government's cuts to legal aid will cause «huge amounts of injustice»... More
The reforms would also create financial savings, notably a cut in the costs of Legal Aid to those contesting cases in the family courts.
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.
The very fact that the initial legal aid cuts refused to recognise the complex needs of domestic abuse survivors — and that it took a women's rights organisation to challenge it — demonstrates how vital this specialist knowledge is.
Does this line of argument ultimately endorse the coalition government's draconian cuts to legal aid as a tool for securing higher success figures for the UKBA?
«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.
The huge march in London at the weekend was in part a roar of deep dissatisfaction at hardline policies in the UK (cuts to legal aid, threats to scrap the Human Rights Act, etc), not just a protest at Trump's divisive rhetoric and policies.
He has a proper understanding of the appropriate tension between the executive and the judiciary and he's got a good record fighting against cuts to citizen's legal powers, such as on judicial review and legal aid.
Campaigners against legal aid cuts won a major victory today, after the court of appeal allowed a case to go ahead on the impact of the reform on prisoners.
With cuts to legal aid, restrictions to judicial review and removal of appeal rights, this approach has undermined the procedural safeguards that should protect those seeking sanctuary in the UK from the risk of return to torture and persecution in their country of origin.
«More funding is needed, especially following the virtual demise of legal aid and what is likely to be another round of harsh local authority cuts in the coming year,» Hawkes warns.
Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.