Schemes of Legal Aid System in UK Law
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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...... ... access to legal services by establishing publicly funded legal aid schemes. Some societies also promoted Legal Expense Insurance (LEI) to fill some ... the Swedish citizens’ use of law, lawyers, and the legal system? Perhaps the best way to answer these questions is to compare the ... ...
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The State of Australian Legal Aid
... ... Anne Noone*INTRODUCTIONRecent comment on the Australian legal aid system has focussed on the declininglevels of funding and the consequent impact ... For a detailed discussion and evaluation of the various legal aid schemes operating in theearly 1970's see Sackville, R., Legal Aid in Australia ... ...
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The Green Papers and Legal Services
... ... of legal aid from 1 April 1989, will provide a system that is efficient and effective and give to all concerned ... are moving away from work which, with the duty solicitor schemes, is increasingly stressful and relatively poorly remunerated relative ... ...
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An Evaluation of British Housing Aid provided by The Ministry of Overseas Development
... ... attention to begiven to siteandservice schemes and housing for low-income groups. Accordingly, ... by an allocation for the Maseru Sewerage System. In the GilbertIslandsandTuvalu,as well as the ... whether he be freeholder orleaseholder, the legal right and obligation to construct his own ... ...
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Legal Aid in the Netherlands: A View from England
... ... spoke to 14 staff.* We found that the English and Dutch schemes share similar problems. Both face an escalating legal aid ... 1 Cappelletti and Garth define judicare as ‘a system whereby legal aid is established as a matter of right for ... ...
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Large‐scale Map or the A‐Z? The Place of Self‐help Services in Legal Aid
Australian legal aid agencies are increasing their reliance on self‐help legal services as part of their service delivery mix. Self‐help legal services seek to harness the productive capacity of co...... ... of self-help legal aid services, especially within a legal system which is difficult for people to navigate if they do not have legal ... and the increasing mandating of participation in mediation schemes are considered by way of comparison. THE NATURE OF SELF-HELP LEGAL ... ...
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THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND LEGAL AID
... ... to take due notice of the problem and to consider schemes for its solution. This is in effect a major success. When, ... that there are certainly strong arguments against having one system of legal aid in one set of courts and a different system ... ...
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Democratizing dictators? Non-democratic regime conditions and the allocation of US democracy assistance, 1975–2010
As the USA initiated strategies of democracy promotion to support the spread of democracy, a key element involved democracy assistance. However, some states receive substantial commitments of US de...... ... or channels: institutional , which targets legal institutions, political parties, govern- ment ... Polity datasets employ different coding schemes to determine authori- tarian regime types (Wahman ... distance between each state in the system and the nearest: (1) US rival, (2) Marxist state, ... ...
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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 ... redistributions [that] also legitimates a system that consistently betrays its promises.’ 4 ... Low levels of funding and fixed costs schemes may lead to routinized justice; they are, though, ... ...
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LEGAL SERVICES IN CANADA*
... ... were available in Nova Scotia and a public defender system had been instituted in Prince Edward Island. However, ... in the country in the 1960s, but by 1975 both schemes were seen to be failing to adapt policies and administration ... ...
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