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Author : Legal Services Corporation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Serving the Civil Legal Needs of Low-income Americans written by Legal Services Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Closing the Justice Gap written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Documenting the Justice Gap in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress, in creating the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in 1974, determined that there is need to provide equal access to the system of justice in our nation for those who would be otherwise unable to afford adequate legal counsel. Congress explicitly recognized in the LSC Act that, "providing legal assistance to those who face an economic barrier to adequate legal counsel will serve best the ends of justice, assist in improving opportunities for low-income persons," and "has reaffirmed faith in our government of laws." The goal of providing equal access to justice for those who cannot afford to pay an attorney remains the reason for LSC's existence and the benchmark for its efforts. In developing the budget mark it submits to Congress, therefore, LSC has a duty to assess what has been accomplished in meeting the need, what still needs to be achieved, and the role that federal funding should play in doing so. This report uses a variety of approaches to document the civil legal needs of low-income individuals and families and to quantify necessary access to civil legal assistance -- that is, the level of assistance that would be required across the nation to respond appropriately to those needs. The civil legal needs of low-income people involve essential human needs, such as protection from abusive relationships, safe and habitable housing, access to necessary health care, disability payments to help lead independent lives, family law issues including child support and custody actions, and relief from financial exploitation. The difference between the current level of legal assistance and the level which is necessary to meet the needs of low-income Americans is the "Justice Gap."
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Download or read book The Justice Gap written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca L. Sanderfur
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848552432
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Rebecca L. Sanderfur and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, access to justice enjoys an energetic and passionate resurgence as an object both of scholarly inquiry and political contest, as both a social movement and a value commitment motivating study and action. This work evidences a deeper engagement with social theory than past generations of scholarship.
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Publisher : American Bar Association
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Legal Needs and Civil Justice written by and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Legal Services Corporation
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Download or read book Documenting the Justice Gap in America written by Legal Services Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report updates and expands the Legal Services Corporation's groundbreaking 2005 report Documenting the Justice Gap in America: The Current Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low-Income Americans, first released in September 2005, which documented the enormous challenge the nation faces in providing civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families. This report ... shows that a continuing, major justice gap exists in our nation: for every person helped by LSC-funded legal aid programs, another is turned away ... This report replicates the methodologies and analysis used in 2005 and includes data on unrepresented litigants.
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Justice Gap written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The justice gap is the difference between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs. This study explores the extent of the justice gap in 2017, describing the volume of civil legal needs faced by low-income Americans, assessing the extent to which they seek and receive help, and measuring the size of the gap between their civil legal needs and the resources available to address these needs. -- Introduction
Author : American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants
Publisher : American Bar Association
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid written by American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documenting the Justice Gap in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl T. Donovan
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ISBN 13 : 9781616689391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Legal Aid for the Poor and the Legal Services Corporation written by Carl T. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal government to address the civil legal needs of these vulnerable people as a national priority. The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a private, non-profit, federally funded corporation that helps provide legal assistance to low-income people in non-criminal (i.e., civil) matters. The primary responsibility of the LSC is to manage and oversee the congressionally appropriated federal funds that it distributes in the form of grants to local legal service providers, which in turn give legal assistance to low-income clients in all 50 states. This book explores the Legal Services Corporation, its background and funding, and addresses government accountability and weaknesses of the program.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984120281
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Closing the Justice Gap written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing the justice gap : providing civil legal assistance to low-income Americans : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, May 22, 2008.
Author : Asher Flynn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509900861
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Access to Justice and Legal Aid written by Asher Flynn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.
Author : Jeffrey Selbin
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Access to Evidence written by Jeffrey Selbin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 57 million Americans, one-third of them children, qualify for free legal aid, but half or more who seek help are turned away because providers lack sufficient resources. Tens of millions more moderate-income Americans are ineligible for free legal aid, yet lack reliable access to an affordable lawyer. At the same time, state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and law schools around the country are developing innovative approaches to addressing legal needs in their communities. This issue brief for the Center for American Progress suggests how the federal government can hasten these developments by promoting legal service delivery models that are backed by rigorous evidence of their effectiveness. Evidence-based approaches in civil legal assistance can help service providers target resources more efficiently and bolster the case for new investments by Congress and other funders to increase access to justice. With new leadership and initiative in key institutions, we recommend that the White House and Congress seize the opportunity to: • Establish a "National Access to Justice Institute" in the Justice Department to coordinate legal aid research through a partnership with the American Bar Foundation and the Legal Services Corporation; • Support state and regional centers for legal aid research to catalyze innovation and evaluation through collaboration between the new institute, state access-to-justice commissions, legal services providers, and law school clinics; and • Target federal funds to incentivize evidence-based legal aid delivery systems through competitive grants and market-based mechanisms.
Author : Samuel Estreicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316654095
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Beyond Elite Law written by Samuel Estreicher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Americans making under $50,000 a year compelled to navigate the legal system on their own, or do they simply give up because they cannot afford lawyers? We know anecdotally that Americans of median or lower income generally do without legal representation or resort to a sector of the legal profession that - because of the sheer volume of claims, inadequate training, and other causes - provides deficient representation and advice. This book poses the question: can we - at the current level of resources, both public and private - better address the legal needs of all Americans? Leading judges, researchers, and activists discuss the role of technology, pro bono services, bar association resources, affordable solo and small firm fees, public service internships, and law student and nonlawyer representation.
Author : Kris Shepard
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807134163
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Rationing Justice written by Kris Shepard and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190286660
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Access to Justice written by Deborah L. Rhode and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American life and its growing complexity has made access to legal assistance critical for all citizens. Yet according to most estimates about four-fifths of the legal needs of the poor, and two- to three-fifths of the needs of middle-income individuals remain unmet. This book reveals the inequities of legal assistance in America, from the lack of access to educational services and health benefits to gross injustices in the criminal defense system. It proposes a specific agenda for change, offering tangible reforms for coordinating comprehensive systems for the delivery of legal services, maximizing individual's opportunities to represent themselves, and making effective legal services more affordable for all Americans who need them.
