Sentences with phrase «with legal aid fee»

Despite current concerns with legal aid fee cuts and competitive tendering, criminal lawyers accounted for only 7 % of calls.

Not exact matches

Dramatically rising fees at Canadian law schools with equally dramatic reductions in provincial legal aid budgets have created the perfect storm for young talent in the criminal defence bar.

The Law Society Gazette reported that the Lord Chancellor is willing to drop the second 8.75 % fee cut for criminal legal aid — with strings.

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Our experience so far of lay appointments is of: (a) fiscal measures (increasing fees and reducing legal aid) which have a negative impact on access to justice; and (b) unseemly spats with the Lord Chief Justice about law reform and the freedom of the press.

I currently take referrals from Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) for assistance with obtaining set - aside orders of arrests or convictions and other cases involving restoration of certain rights, relief from registration requirements or reductions in fines and fees.

The Government has announced its intention to press ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of legal aid contracts allowing criminal defence firms to represent suspects in the police station, while also cutting fees by a further 8.75 %.

A judicial review has been launched against Ministry of Justice (MoJ) cuts to legal aid fees for Crown Court cases with heavy workloads, such as terror, fraud and serious historic sex cases.

The manner in which the Labour Government dealt with the cut in legal aid was to develop further the availability of conditional fees.

She is already in talks with several legal aid organizations, she said, and plans to charge a licensing fee according to a sliding scale based on what the organization can pay.

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Criminal matters are usually structured on a block - fee basis, with Legal Aid accepted for serious matters where the person is financially eligible.

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

While those involved say industrial action would be a last resort, Justice Minister Alan Shatter is on a collision course with lawyers over the restructuring of fees paid under the legal aid system.

Instead, it uses the information you provide to steer you in the direction of how to deal with your legal aid issue or where you might find direct assistance with your needs for free, for a reduced fee, or through a paid service, depending on your circumstances.

It was only 2000 when practitioners dealing with personal injury law were faced with major funding reforms, with legal aid largely being replaced with the use of conditional fee agreements.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Couple the bleak prospects afforded by legal aid retainers with law school tuition fees that have skyrocketed and one can not blame any reasonable student for abandoning a future in criminal law.

In successfully increasing the numbers of acts of advice through civil legal aid, the LSC has shown that legal aid providers are willing to take on additional contracts to deliver more services to clients... [o] ur view is that the provider base will be able to work with the new fee schemes.»

«The new fixed and graduated fee schemes (for civil, family and immigration legal aid) are predicated on providers carrying out a range of cases that address the full spectrum of clients» needs... Providers may choose to use particular practitioners as specialists to deal with more complex cases, however, the organisation as a whole will need to provide a full range of services in order to profit effectively from the new fees.»

Fees waivers are available for individuals with a Centrelink Concession card or Health Care card, for First Nations clients and in some other circumstances (e.g. for clients who have been granted Legal Aid for the parenting issue being discussed at the Centre)