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Former San Miguel expat starts migrant legal aid clinic in New York City
16 Dec 2024 17:02 GMT
Every Monday night since September 2023, approximately 30-40 volunteers have consistently shown up at either Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights or Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan to offer a free legal clinic to asylum seekers. This pro se (self- …
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Institutions can’t be retirement homes for judges, bureaucrats: Justice Narasimha
23 Dec 2024 11:05 GMT
… or imbalance and ensure that bureaucracy in modern India draws the … Venkataramiah’s pioneering efforts in legal aid and education. “He firmly believed … of a Legal Aid Society in 1948 -- long before legal aid or even …
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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the Convening of the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable
09 Dec 2024 23:23 GMT
… to help outside researchers, legal aid organizations, and the general … doing:
The Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics — which … ’s criminal justice statistics bureau — has collaborated with … local custody through the Bureau of Justice Assistance. This …
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Tender for civil legal aid contracts reopens
04 Dec 2024 21:26 GMT
… areas of civil legal aid.
Changes to legal aid means tests
… some individuals currently receiving legal aid may be eligible … non-chargeable time
The Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) … that make providing legal aid less bureaucratic and more sustainable. …
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Legal Aid Attorney Rory O’Sullivan Announces Run for Seattle City Attorney
04 Dec 2024 16:31 GMT
… landlords, bankers, and the pesky bureaucrats standing between you and your … ’Sullivan’s worked in multiple legal aid firms in Seattle, including The …
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“Blurred distinctions” as legal aid solicitors do their own advocacy
03 Dec 2024 04:27 GMT
… bureaucracy and administrative work involved in civil legal aid advocacy”, regarding civil legal aid … the civil legal aid advocacy sector due to an ‘ageing’ legal aid workforce … pay and bureaucracy.
“The lack of availability of civil legal aid advocates …
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Review recommends 16 per cent increase in Northern Ireland legal aid fees
02 Dec 2024 15:44 GMT
… Northern Ireland’s criminal legal aid system has recommended an … review of the criminal legal aid system and presented his … , published today, acknowledges that legal aid fees have declined from March … often justice is reduced to bureaucracy and the cost of …
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Minister announces changes to justice system - including who can claim legal aid
02 Dec 2024 14:01 GMT
… changes to increase eligibility for legal aid; additional options for financing litigation … often justice is reduced to bureaucracy and the cost of legal … want to increase eligibility for legal aid, opening up the service to …
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How Legal Aid, DAs ignore the law — and keep madmen like NYC stabber on the streets
22 Nov 2024 20:26 GMT
… encounters, assistant district attorneys, Legal Aid lawyers and judges had … governor — this is a Legal Aid problem, first and foremost. …
The Legal Aid Society is a massive, well-funded bureaucracy that … — if only Rivera’s Legal Aid attorney, or any other …
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Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal
05 Nov 2024 04:00 GMT
… justice. Colossal cuts to legal aid over the past fourteen … a slow, complex and bureaucratic system.
On top of … of legal aid advice.
But urgent reform to the legal aid system … 908m.
But legal aid work has become unsustainable, civil legal aid rates have …