Sentences with phrase «paid by legal aid»

Legal aid rates paid by the Legal Aid Agency and prosecution rates, which are roughly aligned to them, have fallen considerately.

The appointment of 13 provincial court judges, 32 Crown attorneys, 16 duty counsel (i.e. - lawyers who are paid by Legal Aid), and 26 court staff;

There would be no success fee or uplift for those cases which are successful at the permission stage (which would compensate the lawyers for cases that failed at the permission stage and that would not be paid by legal aid).

Not exact matches

Another was dishonest misuse of legal aid money obtained by Wakefield to pay for the study.

The program is designed to supplement the low salaries paid to legal aid attorneys by allowing qualified applicants to obtain forgivable loans from the Foundation to assist them in paying their law school student loans while employed by such organizations.

The absurdity of this was recognised as early as June 2013 by the Human Rights Joint Committee who urged the government to «pay attention to the impact of withdrawing legal aid for non asylum immigration matters» and «consider the cost - benefit case for providing legal aid to all unaccompanied migrant children».

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The proposals, if implemented, will have the effect that many migrants and prisoners will no longer be eligible for legal aid; access to judicial review will be restricted; contracts for criminal work will be the subject of competitive tendering; and fees paid to legal aid solicitors and barristers will be reduced, by more than 50 % in some instances.

My motivation was a desire to gain a deeper understanding of the machinery that inexorably grinds our system forward inch by inch (and not by the laughable pay rate that has the dubious distinction of being the only legal remuneration to make Legal Aid funding appear moderately generlegal remuneration to make Legal Aid funding appear moderately generLegal Aid funding appear moderately generous).

This report, by Lucy Logan Green and James Sandbach at LAG, brings together statistical and other evidence on the impact of the changes to legal aid and argues that the civil justice system is in freefall due to the lack of availability of legal advice for members of the public who can not afford to pay for it.

The MoJ is also proposing that fees paid to advocates appointed by the court to cross-examine victims of abuse will be cut from private to legal aid rates.

She explains many people have legal issues not covered by legal aid and do not have the means to pay a lawyer, while others do not qualify for legal aid even if their legal issues fall within the organization's scope, but still don't have the means to fund counsel.

A judicial attempt to provide legal services paid for by HMCTS has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in re K & H (Children)[2015] EWCA Civ 543, [2015] All ER (D) 230 (May), so the individuals will either plod on, aided if possible by the court staff, the judge and pro bono work by lawyers.

(5) Legal Aid organizations are necessary but can not be adequately funded by governments while the majority of the population can not afford legal services, i.e., governments can not in good conscience compel taxes be used to provide free legal services for the poor, which taxes are paid by people who themselves can not afford lawLegal Aid organizations are necessary but can not be adequately funded by governments while the majority of the population can not afford legal services, i.e., governments can not in good conscience compel taxes be used to provide free legal services for the poor, which taxes are paid by people who themselves can not afford lawlegal services, i.e., governments can not in good conscience compel taxes be used to provide free legal services for the poor, which taxes are paid by people who themselves can not afford lawlegal services for the poor, which taxes are paid by people who themselves can not afford lawyers.

Legal aid lawyers were paid case by case.

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) allows for an additional amount to be paid to a claimant by a defendant in cases where the defendant has refused the claimant's offer to settle and the court has given judgment for the claimant which is at least as advantageous to the claimant as the claimant's offer.

(Unlike the rules of most legal aid organizations, there is nothing in the Order that restricts the beneficiaries of free legal services by out - of - state lawyers only to victims of Hurricane Harvey who are unable to pay for them.)

At the conclusion of your matter, all or part of any money recovered may be held by us or the Legal Aid Agency until the position in respect of the Statutory Charge has been assessed either by the Legal Aid Agency or the Court, and we have been paid the legal costs due tLegal Aid Agency until the position in respect of the Statutory Charge has been assessed either by the Legal Aid Agency or the Court, and we have been paid the legal costs due tLegal Aid Agency or the Court, and we have been paid the legal costs due tlegal costs due to us.

Where a judge has made an appointment and legal aid is not available, section 684 (2) provides that the fees and disbursements of counsel are to be paid by the Attorney General.

Clients will expect closer collaboration, aided by technology and will be unwilling to pay hourly rates for any legal process that could be automated.

Clayton Ruby recently mooted the creative suggestion of paying a legal aid «articling student bonus» for legal aid work done by articling students.

Justice Stromberg - Stein pointed out that the comparison should not be between what LSS could pay and what the AG's department could spend on counsel but rather if B.C.'s legal aid rate fell below the standard offered by other provinces to enable the accused to obtain counsel.

One common problem being addressed by this year's winners is providing better legal services to the vast middle class — people who aren't wealthy enough to pay Wall Street lawyer rates, and aren't indigent enough to qualify for legal aid.

Much of civil legal aid work is financed by the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, an arcane fund generated from the pooled interest paid on small amounts of money that lawyers hold in trust for clients.

Family Duty Counsel (PDF) Family Duty Counsel are lawyers paid by the Legal Services Society (Legal Aid) for up to three hours of free advice to help with family law issues.

Of course Legal Aid is only enabling inefficiency by paying by the hour — but that is another story.....

«We found that legal aid pay for family barristers lags far behind private client rates and below the rates paid by local authorities.

The families were given legal aid for the 2016 inquests but it was not like that the first round, when the families managed to raise # 150,000 for one barrister and then discovered at the inquests that the police had ten barristers, all paid for by the state.

In general, lawyers working as in - house counsel, who are employed by the government, who work in education, or who work for a clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario are exempt from the requirement to pay insurance premiums.