Sentences with phrase «say legal aid cuts»
Writing for the New Statesman, the Shadow Lord Chancellor, Richard Burgon, said legal aid cuts have been disastrous for the poor.
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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
«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.
Nicola Hill, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association, said: «These cuts mean that law firms will rapidly go to the wall in their hundreds, leaving people who can't afford to pay privately with only the crumbs of legal aid.
But he stood firm on the need for legal aid cuts, saying: «It was the case that too much taxpayer money was spent on legal aid.
The government says the cuts are a vital way to reduce expenditure on one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world.
Legal Services Corp. grant funding has been cut from almost $ 379 million two years ago to $ 316 million currently, and those grants now pay less than 27 percent of the funding for New York's nonprofit legal aid programs, DiNapoli Legal Services Corp. grant funding has been cut from almost $ 379 million two years ago to $ 316 million currently, and those grants now pay less than 27 percent of the funding for New York's nonprofit legal aid programs, DiNapoli legal aid programs, DiNapoli said.
People representing themselves «clog up» courts, says Elizabeth Gloster, as report details legal aid cuts» effect on lawyers» morale
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.»
Cuts to legal aid have thrown family proceedings into chaos, say Kim Beatson, Caroline Bowden & Ellen Lucas, in the second of an exclusive NLJ online series on legal aid post-LASPO
Geraldine Morris, head of LexisPSL Family, said: «The new Resolution guide will be a useful new resource for separating and divorcing couples — the need for a greater awareness of options for resolving disputes is brought into sharp focus by the extensive cuts to legal aid and the overloaded court system.
Nearly one quarter of the 85 leading family lawyers taking part in the survey said their most pressing issue was litigants in person, which are increasingly common due to cuts in legal aid and public funding for advice centres.
The report says that it was estimated that the LASPO provisions would cut # 450m from the legal aid budget, but «last year, legal aid spending was actually # 950m less than in 2010».
«These portals will use cutting - edge, user - centered technology to help ensure that all people with civil legal needs can navigate their options and more easily access solutions and services available from legal aid, the courts, the private bar, and community partners,» the announcement said.
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».
He said that he believes cuts to legal aid may have been a false economy because the rise in litigants in person means that judges have to spend time helping litigants through a case.
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.
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 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 legal aid cuts.
The government has repeatedly said it will carry out a review to assess the full impact of the reforms and cuts to legal aid introduced by LASPO after three years.
In their press release vice-president Christina Blacklaws said: «The Law Society has consistently warned that this fragile criminal legal aid market can not stand any further cuts.
Richard Miller, head of legal aid at the Law Society, concluded, «LASPO is not working for the taxpayer, for the government, for people who need to protect and enforce their rights, or for those working within the system», while Bob Neill, chair of the Justice Select Committee took to Twitter to say that the coalition government had gone «too far» in cutting legal aid.
The provinces (including BC) repeatedly say they must cut legal aid due fiscal restraint in these tough economic times.
«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.
Cuts to legal aid have created «an advice gap stranding people with nowhere to turn», said Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice.
«We all sat around at a [company] board meeting after the presidential election and were concerned about legal aid and potential cuts to funding,» he says.
However, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has dismissed this argument saying that the DPP cut prosecution fees by 10 % days after cuts were announced for criminal legal aid lawyers.
They say fees for practitioners had been cut by 30 % across the board since 2007 and a further 20 % cut in the legal aid budget was anticipated.
«We are bitterly disappointed that, despite a sustained campaign emphasising that these proposals are contrary to the public interest, the government is pressing ahead with significant cuts to legal aid for advocacy in the Crown Court,» he said.
David Warner, supervising solicitor at South Westminster Legal Advice Centre, says the centre has seen «a marked increase» in the number of clients seeking family law advice since LASPO cut legal aid from most areas of family law in April Legal Advice Centre, says the centre has seen «a marked increase» in the number of clients seeking family law advice since LASPO cut legal aid from most areas of family law in April legal aid from most areas of family law in April 2013.
He says: «In the current climate, where legal aid solicitors have already experienced a substantial pay cut in real terms over the past ten years and are now being told that the legal aid budget will be frozen until 2009 — 10, I am determined to fight for a fair deal for all.
I say «sort of» because, although the ill - thought and probably unworkable price competitive tendering scheme has been binned, in its place an across - the - board 17.5 % fee cut will be imposed upon a beleaguered defence profession as well as a restatement of the commitment to save # 220m from the legal aid budget.
Many solicitors are anticipating the legal aid cuts with an increasing sense of doom, says Cara Nuttall