Funding and Costs of Legal Aid in UK Law
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The 'Exceptionality' of Legal Aid: Affordable Access to Justice in Judicial Review
This article discusses the role of costs as a limitation on access to judicial review in the UK. Part I assesses the series of financial hurdles to access currently faced by would-be judicial revie...... ... ABSTRACT ... This article discusses the role of costs as a limitation on access to judicial review in the UK. Part I assesses ... at the impact of recent changes to the availability of legal aid funding. Part II argues that affordable access to justice in general is necessary ... ...
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Alternatives to Public Provision: The Role of Legal Expenses Insurance in Broadening Access to Justice: The German Experience
The literature suggests that the main barriers to justice range from a general lack of knowledge about legal rights, and the related prevalent use of technical language within justice systems (whic...... ... 4 In Germany the principal barrier is thought to be the problem of funding legal services. 5 Empirical research indicates that the question of ... legal expenses insurance (LEI) is to provide protection against the costs of bringing or defending legal action necessary to resolve a dispute, LEI ... ...
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Litigation funding: third-party funders come to the aid of finance directors seeking to reduce the risk of litigation and control the costs.
... ... , insurance and banking sectors are well-publicised examples of litigious industries, and companies in these sectors often have large in-house legal teams and significant budgets dedicated towards the pursuit (and defence) of litigation. Claim sizes often run into tens of millions, and in some ... ...
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The State of Australian Legal Aid
... ... legal aid system ha s focussed on the declining levels of funding and the consequent impact of this reduc ed funding. Little attention has ... , legal processes and referral to other community agencies for the costs of a local call anywhere within Queensland. The Call Centre training ... ...
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The Swedish Legal Services Policy Remix: The Shift from Public Legal Aid to Private Legal Expense Insurance
A number of governments in the 1960s and 1970s pursued the goal of equal access to legal services by establishing publicly funded legal aid schemes. Some societies also promoted Legal Expense Insur...... ... Leipold, ‘Limiting costs for better access to justice: The German experience’ in Reform of civil ... , eligibility criteria were steadily tightened by introducing funding caps on cases and excluding more types of cases from legal aid coverage ... ...
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The Green Papers and Legal Services
... ... rights will make little practical difference to divorce costs but the private litigant is particularly sensitive to the cost of ... The CPS shares with legal aid a dependence on Govern- ment funding. In 1987-8 the CPS spent a total of E141m, of which f52m ... ...
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Access to Justice after Universalism: Introduction
... ... a clarion call for progressive lawyers and legal pressure groups alike. As Cappelletti and Garth ... challenge to the desirability of such funding, and the utility of 1 ß Blackwell Publishing ... to parties; potent and flexible remedies; costs rules; the control of 3 6 Sanders cites M ... ...
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Holding aid-related misconduct accountable: civil and administrative remedies
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical analysis on aid-related misconduct and sectoral regulatory failures. Via a series of Oxfam revelations, this paper aims to highlight po...... ... begins with an overviewof moral and legal responsibilities of the entrusted; then it ... spurred public sentiment to cut funding for the aid sector as a whole (Enria, ... associated with extradition (including high costs and specific requirementspertaining to crimes), ... ...
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Holding aid-related misconduct accountable: civil and administrative remedies
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical analysis on aid-related misconduct and sectoral regulatory failures. Via a series of Oxfam revelations, this paper aims to highlight po...... ... begins with an overviewof moral and legal responsibilities of the entrusted; then it ... spurred public sentiment to cut funding for the aid sector as a whole (Enria, ... associated with extradition (including high costs and specific requirementspertaining to crimes), ... ...
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Legal Aid in the Netherlands: A View from England
... ... that consumers may have to meet a greater share of the costs. In both jurisdictions, rights of audience, specialisation, quality ... not considered to be ‘real’ lawyers, and no state funding is available for their services. All advocates must be members ... ...
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