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Author : Peter Durack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Proposed Changes to the Legal Aid System written by Peter Durack and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594039348
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Rebooting Justice written by Benjamin H. Barton and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of cases and immediately urges them to plead guilty. Civil litigants are even worse off; usually, they get no help at all navigating the maze of technical procedures and rules. The same is true of those seeking legal advice, like planning a will or negotiating an employment contract. Rebooting Justice presents a novel response to longstanding problems. The answer is to use technology and procedural innovation to simplify and change the process itself. In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around. We need a cheaper, simpler, faster justice system to control costs. We cannot untie the Gordian knot by adding more strands of rope; we need to cut it, to simplify it.
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Publisher : Raman Mittal
ISBN 13 : 8192120422
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Legal Aid written by and published by Raman Mittal. This book was released on 2012 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at an international conference.
Author : Great Britain: Department for Constitutional Affairs
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0101699328
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Legal Aid Reform written by Great Britain: Department for Constitutional Affairs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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.
Author : Jeffrey Selbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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 : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
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.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215557131
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Government's proposed reform of legal aid written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Author : Earl Johnson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313357064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book To Establish Justice for All [3 Volumes] written by Earl Johnson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement--and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States. Provides a unique resource for law students enrolled in courses on poverty law, professional responsibility, access to justice, and legal history, as well as for professors teaching these subjects Enables readers to see how changes in the larger society have brought new challenges to legal aid institutions--or old challenges in new guises Presents a comprehensive, informed overview of civil legal aid written from the perspective of a former professor of law, director of the War on Poverty's legal services program, and appellate judge Explores the unusual partnership between a governmental program funding civil legal aid lawyers and an outside professional organization dominated by wealthy corporate lawyers, the American Bar Association (ABA), and how the ABA used its political influence and advocacy to protect lawyers serving the poor when they faced opposition in Congress or the White House Documents the remarkable impact of legal services lawyers during the War on Poverty era, including the more than 60 cases they won in the United States Supreme Court in just a 7-year span Describes how those supporting legal services in some states managed to develop new innovative sources of funding, such as interest earned on lawyers' trust accounts, when federal revenues for civil legal aid dropped during the 1980s and 1990s Provides a revealing case study for those interested in the War on Poverty or other social programs helping the poor
Author : New Zealand. Legal Aid Review
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780478290806
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Transforming the legal aid system written by New Zealand. Legal Aid Review and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 :
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:
Author : Bryant G. Garth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789028601802
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood Law Firms for the Poor written by Bryant G. Garth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1980-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: pp. 105-16; Australian Legal Aid Office.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Clearinghouse Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183910726X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Legal Design written by Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book proposes new theories on how the legal system can be made more comprehensible, usable and empowering for people through the use of design principles. Utilising key case studies and providing real-world examples of legal innovation, the book moves beyond discussion to action. It offers a rich set of examples, demonstrating how various design methods, including information, service, product and policy design, can be leveraged within research and practice.
Author : Alison Brewin
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886273773
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC written by Alison Brewin and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
