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Author : Frederick H. Zemans,Patrick Monahan,Aneurin Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : UOM:39015050470163
Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Justice
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0101807228
This is the Government response to Cm. 7967 'Proposals for reform of legal aid in England and Wales (ISBN 9780101796729) and sets out the plans to deliver the goals stated in that paper. The legal aid programme put forward includes: reform of the classes of cases and proceedings retained within the scope of legal aid; exceptional funding; amendment of merits test criteria for civil legal aid; establishment of the Community Legal Advice Telephone helpline; financial eligibility reforms; criminal remuneration; civil and family remuneration; expert fees and alternative sources of funding
Author : Moore, Sarah,Newbury, Alex
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781447335474
Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective and assess their impact on family law courts and advocacy. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on the rise in people representing their own legal case and argues that the reforms effectively ‘delawyerise’ disputes, producing a more inquisitorial justice system and impacting the litigants, court system, staff and process. Arguing for a more holistic concept of the reforms, the book will be of relevance to students, academics, policy-makers, judges, campaigners and social workers, not just in England and Wales, but in other jurisdictions instituting cuts to their legal aid budgets, such as Australia, Scotland, France, and the Netherlands.
Author : Alison Brewin
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 9780886273774
LEGAL AID DENIED Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC By Alison Brewin With Lindsay Stephens SEPTEMBER 2004 Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC By Alison Brewin With Lindsay Stephens September 2004 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Alison Brewin is the Program Director at West Coast LEAF, managing the law reform, litigation and public legal education work of the organization. [...] Recommendations for the government to redress this situation include: ensure funding for legal aid goes directly to legal aid services; eliminate the requirement that violence be present in the eligibility rules for family law legal aid; restructure the LSS Board to re-establish an arms length relationship between the government and the Society; and provide civil law legal aid services according t [...] In addition to legal aid, some of the changes include: • The elimination of the Ministry of Women's Equality; • The end of the universal daycare program that had begun to be implemented by the previous provincial government; • Cuts in accessibility to child care subsidies; • Elimination of the Human Rights Commission; • End to funding for women's centres; • Cuts and changes to welfare rules, inclu [...] The Charter not only includes Section 11's statements about the right to a fair trial: it also includes statements about rights to life, liberty and security of the person (Section 7); assurances that every one is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection of the law (Section 15); and guarantees that the fundamental rights outlined in the Charter must apply equally to men and women [...] Women and Poverty and Immigration Law Services Poverty Law Services Poverty law is the one area of law defined by the income level of the individual, not the subject matter of the legal problem.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215557131
In this report, the Justice Committee examines the Government's proposed reform of legal aid. The proposals are intended to reduce by £350 million a year the cost of the system (which, with expenditure of more than £2 billion annually, is one of the most expensive in the world) at a time when the Ministry of Justice has to reduce its overall spending by almost a quarter. Certain areas of law will fall outside the scope of legal aid, with some being removed in their entirety, which includes family law, though not domestic violence. The Committee is unconvinced that using domestic violence as a proxy for the most serious cases is advisable and calls on Government to look at other ways legal aid can be focussed on the most serious family law cases. The Committee does welcome the Government's support for mediation services in family cases, but does not see this as a panacea. Further work needs to be done on how difficult and unresolved cases can be dealt with if legal aid is not available. The implementation of the proposals regarding family law should not happen before the Family Justice Review Panel has produced its full report. Cost reduction is achievable through public bodies, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, getting their decisions right first time and avoiding expensive court and tribunal cases. The Committee also thinks that the Government should reconsider whether legal aid should be available for certain types of judicial review. There is a degree of consensus amongst all political parties that the cost of legal aid needs to be reduced, but it is imperative that there is a careful assessment of the impact of the proposed changes on those people most dependent on legal aid. The Government needs to refine its proposals further before introducing a major change in the way the accessibility of the justice system has come to be viewed.
Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Justice
Publisher : Stationery Office
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0101796722
In ’The Coalition: our programme for government' (ISBN 9780108509179, May 2010), a review of legal aid in England and Wales was promised. This paper puts forward proposals which aim to support wider plans to move towards a simpler justice system; one which is more accessible to the public, which limits the scope for inappropriate litigation and the involvement of lawyers in issues which do not need legal input; and which supports people in resolving their issues out of Court, using simpler, more informal remedies. Against a backdrop of considerable financial pressure on the Legal Aid Fund, the proposals have been developed with the aim of providing a substantial contribution to the Ministry of Justice's target of a real reduction of 23% in its budget, worth nearly £2bn in 2014-15. Sound finances are critical to the delivery of the Government's ambitions for public services: reducing the burden of debt by reducing public spending is essential to economic recovery. It is estimated that the proposals set out in this consultation would, if implemented, deliver savings of some £350 million in 2014-15 from legal aid.
Author : Great Britain: Department for Constitutional Affairs,Legal Services Commission
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780101699327
The legal aid system is one of the cornerstones of the post-war Welfare State, and since its creation nearly 60 years ago, it has enabled millions of people to access legal advice, support and representation; many of whom would otherwise have been denied access to justice because they could not have afforded to pay. However, the expectations and pressures faced by the legal aid system today are very different to those when it was created, and this document sets out the Government's proposals to reform the system to ensure its sustainability and effectiveness in contributing to the fight against social exclusion. These proposals follow on from three other documents: i) the Government's long-term strategy for legal aid 'A fairer deal for legal aid' published in July 2005 (Cm 6591, ISBN 0101659121); ii) the recommendations of the independent review of legal aid procurement undertaken by Lord Carter of Coles (details are available at www.legalaidprocurementreview.gov.uk/publications.htm) published in July 2006; and iii) a consultation paper jointly issued by the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Legal Services Commission (details available at www.dca.gov.uk/consult/legal-aidsf/sustainable-future.htm) published in July 2006.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215558928
Additional written evidence is contained in Volume III, available on the Committee's website at www.parliament.uk/justicecttee
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0108551636
The report The Implications For Access To Justice Of The Government's Proposals To Reform Legal Aid (HL100, HC 766) concludes that the government should reconsider its proposals for the reform of legal aid. The government has so far made welcome exemptions to its proposed residence test in the light of responses to its consultation, but the Committee is still not satisfied that the proposed test will not affect vulnerable groups. While accepting that it is legitimate for the government to introduce a residence test for civil legal aid and to restrict the scope of prison law funding, the Committee calls for more and broader exemptions from these proposals to avoid breaches of the fundamental right of effective access to justice in individual cases. The exceptional funding framework may not be working as intended and could therefore leave certain groups unable to access legal aid when human rights law requires it. The proposal to remove cases with
Author : Great Britain: Department for Constitutional Affairs
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0101659121
Dated July 2005.
Author : Trevor C.W. Farrow,Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774863605
Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the extent and cost of unmet legal needs; the role of public funding; connections between legal and social exclusion among vulnerable populations; the value of new legal pathways; the provision of justice services beyond the courts and lawyers; and the need for a culture change within the justice system.
Author : The Law Society
Publisher : The Law Society
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781907698811
This report, the first in the series, has been produced by a Law Society project team assessing the size, shape and nature of the legal services market, along with an analysis of drivers of change likely to influence the market of the future. It includes analysis of materials relating to the legal services market as a whole from supply and demand perspectives, and including all providers of legal services. The report provides a thorough synthesis of a broad range of sources of information about the market, and its submarkets, which are likely to be of interest to the Society's members, non-solicitor suppliers and others interested in the dynamics of legal services provision.
Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C120836314
The present Model Law on Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems with Commentaries was developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Author : M. J. Trebilcock,Lorne Sossin,A. J. Duggan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442612686
Featuring contributions by leading Canadian and international scholars, practitioners, and members of the judiciary, this multidisciplinary collection draws on scholarship in the fields of law, social science, and public policy. There is a particular emphasis on family law, consumer law, and employment law, as these are the areas where research has indicated that unmet legal needs are highest.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780108554469
According to the report The Implications For Access To Justice Of The Government's Proposals To Reform Judicial Review HC (868), the number of judicial reviews has remained remarkably steady when the increase in the number of immigration judicial reviews (now handled by the Upper Tribunal) is disregarded. The report covers: procedural defects and substantive outcomes; legal aid for judicial review cases; interveners and costs; capping of costs (protective costs orders); alternatives to the Government's judicial review reforms; judicial review and the public sector equality duty.