Sentences with phrase «social welfare law»

Our German labor and employment lawyers advise and represent companies and public employers in all areas of individual and collective labor law, including aspects of social welfare law and tax law.

He called the 10 % on social welfare law «outrageous».

But those conditions did not necessarily exist — for instance, in the field of social welfare law or where the number of providers was small.

hus, Ontario's clinic network appears to have a wider group of friends in its legislature then do legal aid practitioners in social welfare law in ours.

The Lib Dem peer chaired his own commission looking at a strategy for social welfare law advice after the 2013 cuts.

Recent attacks on publicly funded law — the scrapping of funding for most social welfare law in April 2013 and this year's 18.5 % cut in fees for defence firms — are not only a disaster for clients and lawyers but also for the hope of a more inclusive profession.

Lord Bach privately described the removal of legal aid from social welfare law as «not just bad but actually wicked» in the immediate aftermath of the final House of Lords debate.

So under my leadership, a Labour government would 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.»

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In that light, it's troubling that Young has made misleading statements about social welfare law, and the position of UK citizens moving to the EU after Brexit, without correcting them.

The Justice First Fellowship scheme, organised by the Legal Education Foundation, funds training contracts and now pupillages in social welfare law at a number of different firms, law centres, charities and other organisations.

During the debate on the second reading of the Bill, the justice secretary Ken Clarke revealed the possibility «up to # 20m» to help Citizens Advice Bureau, law centres and other not - for - profit advice agencies to provide social welfare law advice.

At his constituency surgeries he still makes time to deal with his constituents» problems with benefits, housing and other social welfare law issues.

Tax, labour, family and social welfare law supported this arrangement, and trade barriers created protected enclaves for developed industrial economies.

They receive about 20 per cent of Ontario's legal aid expenditure, roughly double that spent on social welfare law by our Legal Services Commission.

It covers in this order: the dread LASPO cuts of April 2013 largely removing social welfare law from publicly - funded law; the brewing crisis over the defence profession and the potentially calamitous impact of the foisting of dual contracts upon an unwilling profession; and then the government's attempts to curb judicial review unfairly caricatured by Chris Grayling as «a promotional tool for countless left - wing campaigners».

This is the first of two posts looking at the work of London - based social welfare law organisation, Lasa.

Sarah's research interests include social welfare law, the legal rights of non-permanent migrants, and clinical legal education.

Social welfare law represented the core of the legal work undertaken by law centres, citizens advice bureaux and other advice agencies.

On the civil side, there are problems in covering every area of social welfare law in certain geographical areas» (para 51).

The financial woes of legal aid firms have been well documented in NLJ: criminal defence firms haven't had an increase in fees for 20 years and in 2014 had to endure an 8.75 % cut; and most social welfare law and publicly - funded family legal work was wiped out by the 2013 LASPO cuts.

«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.

The public has little sympathy with the issues and politicians can scrap pubic funding for social welfare law, family etc without having to think too hard about the human consequences.

Lord Bach's answers to questions were notable for his insistence that government policy is to reduce the amount of criminal legal aid and increase expenditure on social welfare law.

This compares to the «unprecedented» 5,000 responses to LASPO which scrapped public funding for most of social welfare law and family.

This is Young Legal Aid Lawyers» submission to the call for written evidence by the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, which was set up by Lord Bach after he was asked by Jeremy Corbyn to carry out a comprehensive review of legal aid for the Labour Party, considering civil, crime, family and social welfare law.

Shortly after he was elected as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn asked Lord Bach to carry out a comprehensive review of legal aid, considering civil, crime, family and social welfare law.

The content of the SQE should be amended to ensure that areas of social welfare law and civil legal aid a properly made available within the contexts at SQE1 and 2.

Ministers want to scrap publicly - funded advice for social welfare law — advice on debt, benefits, employment, family (unless domestic violence) and housing advice (unless someone is left homeless).

That veering away from competitive tendering meant that «the die was cast» and it was social welfare law that bore the brunt of the cuts.

As revealed in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) green paper last November, the bill removes legal aid from most family law matters, education law, housing (except where there is a threat of homelessness), personal injury, clinical negligence, employment, immigration (except for detention cases) and social welfare law.

«My dream is to become a legal aid lawyer in social welfare law.

«I am now eight months into my training contact and it looks like I will not be offered a place related to social welfare law.

Speaking to Legal Action Group director Steve Hynes, Lord Bach says «cuts to social welfare law were never justified and the cuts in family law have led to more litigants in person clogging the courts system and adding to costs.»

In April 2013, the Coalition government stripped # 350m from the # 2.2 bn budget, largely by removing entire areas of law from the scheme including most of social welfare law and family except in cases of domestic violence.

Lord Bach said that there were parts of the Legal Aid Act (those relating to the removal of social welfare law) that were «not just bad but actually wicked».

The invitation to tender for work will include 10,000 family law cases, with particular emphasis on domestic abuse and children, and 30,000 cases of social welfare law.

Michael has a strong commitment to social welfare law.

The CLS was, and remains, a jumble of services defined by being unrelated to crime — public law, family law, negligence and social welfare law.

Agencies have no private clients to soften the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill that proposes to remove entire areas of law from scope including almost all «social welfare law» (welfare benefits, employment, debt, most housing and immigration) and family except where there is domestic violence.

The savage but unambiguous nature of the legal aid cuts — most of social welfare law is axed and family legal aid except where there is domestic violence — contrasts with the ambiguity over the implementation of Jackson.

The idea of «social welfare law» was not that it was just another part of the legal aid scheme.