Sentences with phrase «poor with the legal problems»

However, let us hold to the principle that the state needs to help the poor with the legal problems that are particularly theirs.

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Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

When it comes to lawyers, the problems with legal writing may result from lack of sound teaching rather than poor habits developed through e-mail and texting.

But because the unaffordable legal services problem now means that the majority of Canada's taxpayers must deal with their legal problems without lawyers to help them, it's now politically very ill - advised for any government to take more of their tax money to provide more free legal services to poor people, even though it's the law societies» decades - long inaction that has caused the problem.

Our dedicated staff of poverty law specialists provide legal assistance to individuals and families to help them resolve their legal problems, help others to become more knowledgeable about their legal rights, and collaborate with a network of public and private partners in advocacy and policy efforts to maximize the impact of our legal services by changing laws and policies that adversely affect poor people and communities.

And even if they manage to secure legal services, their problems do not end — they have to contend with arcane and complex court procedures, they receive poor customer service from their lawyer, they question if the work could have been done more efficiently and, as a result, more cheaply, they don't understand the information they are given, they are not able to judge the quality of the services they receive, they receive bills they do not understand, for amounts they never anticipated.

As the Supreme Court has shown with the already - established Texas Access to Justice Commission (which focuses on the poorer legal aid client population), it does not simply throw commissions at problems.

«Devising means for providing effective legal services to the indigent and poor is a continuing problem The Florida Bar has addressed this subject with some success In spite of laudable efforts by the Bar, however, this record suggests that even more attention needs to be given to this subject»

(12) In other words, the fact that this problem as to the «unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost» has been a serious one for decades, and is getting worse, puts the monopoly that lawyers have over the provision of legal services in need of a shared partnership with government - supported Legal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest doculegal services at reasonable cost» has been a serious one for decades, and is getting worse, puts the monopoly that lawyers have over the provision of legal services in need of a shared partnership with government - supported Legal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest doculegal services in need of a shared partnership with government - supported Legal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest docuLegal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest doculegal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest doculegal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest document.

What we are recommending is a measured, common sense approach that prioritizes our resources, particularly in light of today's fiscal realities — we can not provide a lawyer to every poor person with a legal problem, as much as we would want to.

What is being published about the consequences of the problem is very negative: （ 1 ） the legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; （ 2 ） young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, （ 3 ） the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help legal profession is shrinking as will lawyers» incomes, along with the number of law firms; （ 2 ） young lawyers can forget about those secure jobs and partnerships, and instead become independent «agile lawyers» available to help law firms with peak period workloads, i.e. become poorly paid piece - work lawyers unable to develop a specialty or secure income; and, （ 3 ） the rich will have lawyers and the very poor will have free Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help Legal Aid services, but the great majority in the middle, being the majority of taxpayers, will not have lawyers to help them.

Over the past three decades, SLS volunteers have taught and assisted inmates at several correctional institutions, offered «duty counsel» service at rural court houses, published numerous books and pamphlets, advocated for changes to laws that adversely affect the poor, participated on radio and television programs, helped individuals file their income tax returns, provided countless lectures and seminars, and assisted hundreds of thousands of individuals with their specific legal questions and problems.

Fewer than one in 10 poor adults in New Jersey are able to get a lawyer to represent them when they're threatened with eviction, foreclosure or other serious legal problems.

One paper summarizes the following important findings of surveys of everyday civil legal problems in connection with the unmet legal needs of the poor and vulnerable:

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

Most women served by Arkansas CARES enter the program single, poor, unemployed, with health problems and legal difficulties ranging from child protection cases to drug - related arrests.