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24 Apr 2013, 8:15 am
On Monday, I am recording a podcast with Michael Turner QC on the legal aid reforms / QASA – with particular emphasis on criminal justice. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 5:25 am
It can never come close to replacing a properly funded legal aid scheme. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 6:30 am
The Law Society of British Columbia bencher and Access Pro Bono executive director Jamie Maclaren has submitted his report on how to best deliver legal aid services to Attorney General David Eby, and some stakeholders are hopeful the recommendations will provide a form of a mixed model use of private and public lawyers. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 4:58 am
There is clearly a huge amount of support for legal aid among the profession as a whole - and this was evident from all the speakers at LAG's conference, which was jointly sponsored by The Law Society, Garden Court North and the Legal Services Commission. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
Governments provide some legal assistance through legal aid clinics, staff lawyers and by legal aid payments for services rendered by private practitioners. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 2:17 am
“The ‘time is ripe for action’ on creating a Contingency Legal Aid Fund (CLAF), according to Lord Justice Jackson, architect of the government’s reforms of civil litigation costs. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 1:51 am
"There is a ‘dire need’ for solicitors to undertake pro bono work, legal aid minister Lord Bach admitted this week. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 1:59 am
“Lawyers have warned that government proposals to close nearly a third of the courts in England and Wales could threaten access to justice and increase pressure on legal aid practitioners. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 2:02 am
“Mediation ‘cannot be a substitute for justice’, the master of the rolls warned this week, in a view that appears sharply at odds with government proposals to replace many legal aid-funded cases with alternative dispute resolution. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 9:11 am
“A proposal to establish a women’s criminal justice policy unit within the Ministry of Justice foundered yesterday after a vote on an amendment to the Legal Aid Sentencing and Criminal Justice Bill was tied.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 21st March 2012 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 2:31 am
The house was debating proposed amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 21st March 2012 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 2:45 am
“The bar must embrace direct access to the public to compete in a system that has been ‘calibrated and designed to hand the entire legal aid pot to solicitors’, the Bar Council chairman said last week. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 1:52 am
“Legal aid cuts and the Jackson reforms will slash the number of claims brought against the NHS by 50%, a senior member of the Civil Justice Council has predicted.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 7th November 2011 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 3:09 am
“Lawyers have welcomed the justice minister’s concession to put some immigration domestic violence cases back within the scope of legal aid.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 27th July 2011 Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 4:20 am
An indigent defendant may be Muslim or Jew, rapist or false rape accuser, transgender or transphobic, and it is the job, no duty, of a legal aid society attorney to defend them all with the same zeal without regard to whether they are their ideological favorite or hated. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 1:48 pm
The Legal Aid Society can help only one in nine people who seek their assistance. [read post]
20 May 2010, 3:00 am
“The Law Society welcomed the new coalition government’s pledge to seek a better balance between state surveillance and privacy this week, while legal aid lawyers said they hoped Kenneth Clarke’s appointment as justice secretary will spell good news for access to justice. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 12:08 pm
Oh how the Law Society of Scotland loves to shout about what it does, or rather what it doesn't do.For the last year or so, the Law Society has spent most of the time trying to prevent the opening of the Scottish legal services market, by fair means or foul.Delay, political arm twisting, the usual threats, even a badly organised legal aid strike did not endear lawyers to the Scots public very much ... so its back to the trusted fictional accounts of… [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 2:00 am
“The Law Society has launched a legal challenge against the government over criminal legal aid fees. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 8:12 am
Ashar (UC Irvine School of Law), Fernando Flores (Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center), Sara Feldman (Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center) December 1, 2013 Clearinghouse Review: Journal... [read post]
