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3 Mar 2023, 8:35 am
Anyone accused of a crime qualifying for legal aid defense services should be entitled to adequate funding. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 5:03 am
"Our aim throughout has been to maintain a legal aid system that is fair, workable and protects the most vulnerable in our society. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 11:14 am
Law Society of Scotland is unloved by GBA over legal aid money row, however the Society's complaints fixing powers are still acceptable. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 5:58 am
Barta was an attorney who was employed by the Legal Aid Society. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:45 pm
The bottom line: Even if you think that you or anyone you love will never need good legal services through a publicly funded legal aid system, you are better off with an amply funded legal aid system, because your community will be far better off, and you will spend far less in taxes and social services. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 10:20 am
"Legal Aid funding cuts hit Marion and Polk Counties," at the Law for Real People blog, posted 09/06/2011 Excerpt: “…We need to recognize legal aid as a kind of community public health resource, like a free vaccination clinic -- because when we ignore the legal needs of the poor, they don't just magically disappear, they get worse and become far more difficult and expensive to deal with. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 5:00 pm
The lawyers — Dana Fisher, a Legal Aid Ontario lawyer and Society of United Professionals spokeswoman, Raoul Boulakia, president of the Refugee Lawyers Association, Ivana Petricone, policy counsel at the Association of Community Legal Aid Clinics, and Katharina Janczaruk, vice president of the Ontario Association Of Child Protection Lawyers — said Legal Aid Ontario is not serving 10-per-cent fewer clients than it was in 2013,… [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 2:47 am
“Lawyers and MPs have expressed outrage at the government’s attempt to fast track the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill through Parliament. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 2:01 am
“The government has made two key concessions demanded by opponents of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill, days before the legislation enters report stage in the House of Lords.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 29th February 2012 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 1:38 am
“The government is putting the NHS ‘above the law’ with its proposed legal aid reforms and changes to the ‘no win, no fee’ arrangements, the Gazette has been told. [read post]
14 Apr 2019, 7:57 pm
According to an American study from a few years ago, as much as 70%-90% of legal needs in society go unmet.We all know that unresolved legal problems adversely affect people’s lives and, ultimately, the public purse. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 2:27 am
“Fifteen law firms in south Wales are to form an alliance with a set of chambers to bid for a criminal legal aid contract from the Legal Services Commission in the next contract round. [read post]
1 May 2015, 6:54 pm
Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:16 am
Leaving little room for doubt, the Law Society, which represents solicitors, called the bill the single biggest attack on state-funded legal advice for the poor and vulnerable since the legal aid system was introduced. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 11:29 am
Legal Aid did not deduct income tax, Canada Pension Plan contributions, or Employment Insurance premiums. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 7:53 am
Just ask Sarah Bolling '07, a Skadden fellow and staff attorney with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society who was just featured on NPR for her work on behalf of foreclosed tenants and former homeowners. [read post]
24 May 2022, 10:43 am
Those are just some of the words that come to my mind when I am asked to describe the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB). [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:08 am
Bacon, criticized the B.C. attorney general for negotiating fees above those publicly posted by the Legal Services Society. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 6:20 am
"Interest Rate Drop Has Dire Results for Legal Aid": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "Scores of legal aid societies that help poor people with noncriminal cases -- like disputes over foreclosures, evictions and eligibility for unemployment benefits -- are being forced to cut their staffs and services, even as requests for help have soared. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 5:25 am
It can never come close to replacing a properly funded legal aid scheme. [read post]
