Sentences with phrase «on access to legal advice»

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal Aid met on 3 September 2014 to discuss the effect of cuts to legal aid on access to legal advice.

A draft order making changes to Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code C provisions on access to legal advice has been laid before Parliament and is expected to be debated this week.

Not exact matches

The EU has invested five million euros to set up a centre that provides knowledge (in - depth sector market reports, guidelines, and case studies); tailored export advice extending to legal and regulatory requirements; rules on market access and competitor and market analysis; assistance with due diligence; training programs adapted for the needs of individual companies; and hot - desks and work spaces in China.

Meanwhile, the Bach Commission on Access to Justice found a collapse in the number of legal advice centres from around 3,226 in 2005 to 1,462 by 2015.

Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

He will appoint a commission, to be co-chaired by the shadow attorney general, Lord Bach, and the former chief executive of a local Citizens Advice Bureau, Yvonne Fovargue MP to advise on improving access to legal aid.

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.

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The Alliance offers a wide array of resources, including access to free legal or contracts advice and tips on how to crowdfund your next project.

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When you are far away from home, you can access the Global Assist hotline to get advice on medical, legal, or other emergency services.

«People want access to legal advice online and they want that to be offered with complete transparency on cost and scope of service.

More specifically, the applicant requested access to «all documents generated or received by the Commission containing legal advice and / or analysis of the legality of the actions to be carried out by the [European Union] and its Member States in implementing the actions set out in the statement on the agreement reached with Turkey at the summit held on 7 March 2016... documents drawn up both before and since the meeting was held, to date».

The Medical Accident Group works on a foundation of «no win, no fee» and believes that everybody should have access to the best legal advice available.

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.

If you incorporate with us you'll have access to legal advice, but you should also consider hiring other professionals for advice and direction on non-legal issues such as tax and accounting.

A total of 88 per cent of the GPs polled believed that patients not being able to access legal or specialist advice about their problems would have a negative impact on their health either to a great extent (48 per cent) or to some extent (40 per cent).

She will also be responsible for providing advice on legal issues and have operational responsibility for access to information, privacy, and information security.

This new service offers affordable access to initial legal advice on a whole range of topics, while also giving our students valuable commercial skills and experience.»

Our barristers (all independent self - employed practitioners) are regularly involved in providing legal advice and representation on a pro bono basis (i.e. without charge) for the benefit of individuals and organisations who might otherwise be unable to access legal assistance.

Going directly to lawyers from the outset means immediate access to legal advice as to whether action is necessary to protect rights in bankruptcy, to protect against counter claims and so on.

Pro bono is open to law students and practising lawyers who volunteer their time to advise members of the community on legal matters, who may not otherwise have access to advice.

LAG would suggest that, if the government is serious about access to justice it needs to put back capacity into the system so that these people can get early advice on their legal problems.

80 % below the poverty line and more than 1/2 of those in the middle class — the people who need legal help the most can not get access to even modest legal advice on serious issues like custody, divorce and criminal questions.

But law societies are expanding the field of professionals they authorize to give legal advice: see the Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matlegal advice: see the Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family MatLegal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

These «general advice» services (the fastest growing of which is Rocket Lawyer) have demystified the legal profession and offered everyone the opportunity to access and create legal documents and on their own or with an attorney at a discounted rate.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

Paul remains committed to assisting Applicants / Claimants in all aspects of Immigration and Nationality Law and prides himself on providing first class legal advice along with excellent client care as a direct access immigration barrister.

We provided help and advice on all legal matters, such as applying to appoint deputies with the court of protection whilst also ensuring that the client had access to quality rehabilitation services and information on other essentials, like disability aids.

«So under my leadership, a Labour government will commission an urgent review of civil legal aid and scrap the unfair system of employment tribunal fees to make sure that everyone can access quality legal advice on social welfare law problems,» he says.

Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.

The mandate of the Task Force was to consult and provide advice on the design of a new legislative and regulatory framework for legal access to cannabis, consistent with the Government's commitment to «legalize, regulate, and restrict access.»

LAG believes this narrow LASPO vision of civil legal aid needs to be superseded by one which provides wider access to justice for the many people struggling to get advice on everyday legal problems.

Access to free legal advice and representation is getting more and more difficult, having a disproportionately high impact on vulnerable people who may lose their home, income or contact with their family as a result of not being able to access the right suAccess to free legal advice and representation is getting more and more difficult, having a disproportionately high impact on vulnerable people who may lose their home, income or contact with their family as a result of not being able to access the right suaccess the right support.

Peninsula clients benefit from access to unlimited 24/7 employment advice, legal insurance, on - site HR audits, a suite of employer document templates, online employee management tools, and legislation updates, all of which are custom - tailored to each and every business.

In this month's Just Wisconsin newsletter, we have updates on the Legislative Council Study Committee on Access to Civil Legal Services, upcoming changes to Wisconsin Legal Advice Online, a new eviction defense project in Milwaukee and some national news highlights.

Obviously, you can not be available to your clients at all times, but you may be able to use client portals, chatbots or other technology tools to provide on - demand access to client information and even some legal advice or services.

«The practice of law, including the giving of legal advice, as defined by G.S. 84 - 2.1 does not include the operation of a Web site by a provider that offers consumers access to interactive software that generates a legal document based on the consumer's answers to questions presented by the software, provided that all of the following are satisfied...»

Rather, customers will get access to a wealth of legal information, on - demand legal advice, and legal document assembly.

It also provides extensive information on pro bono representation and Direct Access, detailed guidance on how to obtain legal advice, including advice from free services, detailed guidance on awards of costs, tips on how to avoid costs orders and web links to relevant organisations and sites for further information needed.

In the case of international surrogacy, immigration law is also critical and it is usually necessary for families embarking on International Surrogacy to obtain or access through us legal advice in the foreign country where they plan the surrogacy to take place.

The Office of the Counsel to the Mayor provides legal advice to the Mayor and City Hall staff and manages legal and other policy initiatives on inequality at the direction of the Mayor, including universal broadband access, green jobs and Fire Department diversity.

, 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).

It may help the government cut spending, but there's a bigger social cost in the long run — the lack of access to legal advice could see an increase in drawn - out courtroom battles, increased acrimony between ex-spouses, and most worryingly, a detrimental impact on children.

The Task Force was given a mandate to consult and provide advice to the Government of Canada on the design of a new legislative and regulatory framework for legal access to cannabis, consistent with the Government's commitment to «legalize, regulate, and restrict access».

We also have to be exceedingly careful not to harm the true public interest by attacking the many areas of legal advice and services that are affordable by thoughtlessly sacrificing them to profit - seeking, anti-competitive nonlawyer investors on a trumped up altar of access to justice simply to avoid dealing with the real A2J problem.

Before Christmas the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, an independent group with Labour party backing, documented the destruction wrought by LASPO and so, for example, noted that collapse in the number of legal advice centres from around 3,226 in 2005 to 1,462 by 2015.