As the Law Society recently reported, legal aid in New Zealand is ‘on life support’. Urgent action is required to avoid the justice gap becoming a chasm.
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Young people often swallow any drugs they have on them when they encounter police, risking overdose to avoid a drug possession charge.
Seventy years after it was first launched, legal aid’s principles of equality are a shadow of what they once were.
A year ago, Doug Ford’s election was seen as a harbinger of a populist realignment in Ontario and Canadian politics. Now polls suggest Ford has abysmally low personal approval ratings.
There’s an apparent emerging Doug Ford doctrine in Ontario of short-term gain for long-term pain. It threatens to embed long-term structural costs for the province and its taxpayers.
The recent decision by the Ontario government to drastically cut funds for legal aid will cause hardship for many low-income residents of Ontario and for refugees claimants.
An evidence-based measure of minimum income has been widely adopted – and could now change the rules around legal aid.
Cuts to legal aid could see paralegals taking on more case work.
Inconsistencies in how judges handle appeal cases and different levels of legal provision around the country can leave asylum seekers facing a lottery.
It is becoming harder and harder to access legal aid for immigration cases.
Many who represent themselves in court fail to make it through the process, have their case dismissed or lose what otherwise would have been a winning case.
The UK’s family court system is at breaking point.
Couples filing for divorce have an incentive to pin the blame for marriage breakdown on one person. This should stop.
Legal aid cuts have made people going to court turn for help elsewhere.
Sacked from your job and never told why. Is this the new normal for some workers in Britain?
The British legal system is skewing the odds against some of the most vulnerable refugees.
The demand for government-funded legal services is large and growing. Simply “not cutting” these services does the community a grave disservice.
It is bitterly ironic that in this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, there are threats from the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is Europe’s own Magna…
The Productivity Commission raised a few eyebrows when it called for an additional A$200 million for legal assistance services to disadvantaged Australians, who are “more susceptible to, and less equipped…
Law students are doing more pro bono work than ever before. In 2014, 70% of all UK law schools now provide free legal services to individuals, groups and organisations. According to the latest LawWorks…
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Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Access to Justice, Georgia State University
