Legal Aid Denied Women And The Cuts To Legal Services In Bc

Author : Alison Brewin
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 9780886273774

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Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC by Alison Brewin Pdf

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 : Alison Brewin,Lindsay Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : OCLC:1059215958

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Legal Aid Denied by Alison Brewin,Lindsay Stephens Pdf

Author : Lavorchick, Evelyn,Legal Services Society of British Columbia,Project Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : 0772624208

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Legal Aid : what Can it Do for You? by Lavorchick, Evelyn,Legal Services Society of British Columbia,Project Read Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 9780886274580

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B.C. Solutions Budget 2006: Budgeting for Women's Equality by Anonim Pdf

Introduction: Gendered Budgets; Women and BC's Economy; It's About Time; Men and Women in the Labour ... ; Trends in the "Official" Eco ... ; Women and the BC Budget; Public Sector Employment; Education and Training; Care Work; Deregulation of Employment S ... ; Social Assistance; Legal Services; BC Budget and Fiscal Framework; Priorities for Budget 2006 a ... ; Advocacy; Early Learning and Child Care; Anti-Poverty Strategy; Affordable Housing Stock; Enhancing BC's Education System; Health Care; Women's Support Services; Responding to the Pine Beetl ... ; Solutions Budget Three-year Pla

Author : Lisa Addario,Canada. Status of Women Canada,National Association of Women and the Law
Publisher : Status of Women
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UIUC:30112044853577

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Getting a Foot in the Door by Lisa Addario,Canada. Status of Women Canada,National Association of Women and the Law Pdf

Author : M. Elizabeth Atcheson,Mary A. Eberts,Beth Symes,Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Actions and defenses
ISBN : UOM:39015043532855

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Women and Legal Action by M. Elizabeth Atcheson,Mary A. Eberts,Beth Symes,Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Pdf

Author : Mavis Maclean,John Eekelaar,Benoit Bastard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782259701

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Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century by Mavis Maclean,John Eekelaar,Benoit Bastard Pdf

Family justice requires not only a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course, but also a justice system which can deliver legal information, advice and support at times of change of status or family stress, together with mechanisms for negotiation, dispute management and resolution, with adjudication as the last resort. The past few years have seen unparalleled turbulence in the way family justice systems function. These changes are associated with economic constraints in many countries, including England and Wales, where legal aid for private family matters has largely disappeared. But there is also a change in ideology in a number of jurisdictions, including Canada, towards what is sometimes called neo-liberalism, whereby the state seeks to reduce its area of activity while at the same time maintaining strong views on family values. Legal services may become fragmented and marketised, and the role of law and lawyers reduced, while self-help web based services expand. The contributors to this volume share their anxieties about the impact on the ability of individuals to achieve fair and informed resolution in family matters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 9780886274115

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BC Solutions Budget 2005 by Anonim Pdf

The real brunt of the cuts has been borne by the most economically and socially vulnerable people in the province. [...] The real brunt of the cuts has Second, we need to invest in the people and infrastructure of the been borne by the most province to address unmet needs and a growing social deficit. [...] And we fear that the NDP (like the Liberals) are refusing to entertain a reversal of upper-income tax cuts and the need to reinvest in public services. [...] In addition to this, we have made the following updates not included in the recent quarterly reports: • New funding out of the September federal-provincial health accord does not appear in the most recent quarterly update, and has been added to federal transfers on the revenue side and to the health care budget on the expenditure side (i.e. [...] The 2002/03 deficit of $2.7 billion (prior to a major This finding underpins the need accounting adjustment) topped the previous record by the Socred government in 1991/92 of a $2.3 billion deficit (although as a to re-invest in the public sector.

Author : Emily Grabham,Davina Cooper,Jane Krishnadas,Didi Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134082223

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Intersectionality and Beyond by Emily Grabham,Davina Cooper,Jane Krishnadas,Didi Herman Pdf

This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a range of disciplines, most particularly law, political theory, and cultural studies.

Author : Michelle Owen
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633794

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Not a New Problem by Michelle Owen Pdf

Violence in the lives of women with disabilities is not a new problem, but it is a problem about which little has been written. This gap in our knowledge needs to be addressed, as women with disabilities are valuable members of our society whose experiences need to be made known. Without such knowledge, political action for social justice and for the prevention of violence is impossible. Contributors to Not a New Problem examine the experiences of Canadian women with disabilities, the need for improved access to services and the ways this violence is exacerbated by and intersects with gender, sexuality, Indigeneity, race, ethnicity and class.

Author : Jocelynne Scutt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137562357

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Women and The Magna Carta by Jocelynne Scutt Pdf

On the eight-hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, Women and the Magna Carta investigates what the charter meant for women's rights and freedoms from an historical and legal perspective.

Author : Cecilia Benoit,Helga Hallgrimsdottir
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442699908

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Valuing Care Work by Cecilia Benoit,Helga Hallgrimsdottir Pdf

There are many forms of paid and unpaid labour encompassed in health care systems, including home care for the elderly or disabled, community health services, and the care family members provide for loved ones. Valuing Care Work is an international comparative study that examines economic organizations as well as intimate settings to show how personal service work is shaped by broader welfare state developments. To trace the relationships between gender, labour, and equity in health care, the essays in this volume analyse the rules and practices that shape care work. The contributors highlight how national configurations of the welfare state shape the gendering of paid and unpaid intimate labour in a range of settings and discuss how the policies and practices associated with neoliberalism have focussed on efficiency and accountability to the detriment of other policy agendas, including those that might further increase dignity and equity for both recipients and providers of paid and unpaid health care.

Author : National Council of Welfare (Canada)
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015034895550

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Legal Aid and the Poor by National Council of Welfare (Canada) Pdf

Author : Frederick H. Zemans,Patrick Monahan,Aneurin Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Legal aid
ISBN : UOM:39015050470163

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From Crisis to Reform by Frederick H. Zemans,Patrick Monahan,Aneurin Thomas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932828045

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Getting a Foot in the Door by Anonim Pdf

The purpose of this report is to articulate principles that can be used to design and deliver civil legal aid services, based on the premises that legal aid is an essential element in the administration of justice, that the clientele for legal aid services in civil matters is overwhelmingly female, and that decisions affecting both the delivery and the funding of legal aid should be subjected to an equality analysis. Part one reviews the literature on low-income women's legal aid needs and describes the evolution of legal aid services and the manner in which women's legal aid needs have historically been met. It also clarifies factors contributing to the design and delivery of civil legal aid services in Canada today. Part two summarizes assessments of legal aid services provided to women in different regions of Canada. Part three contains quantitative data regarding the usage and delivery of civil legal aid services in Canada. Part four presents results of focus group discussions on women's experiences with civil legal aid in Manitoba and Ontario. The information from the preceding parts is integrated into the final section, which considers the principles which should inform the design and delivery of legal aid services for women.