The Advantages and Disadvantages of Conditional Fee Arrangements for Legal Aid

These rules have been developed in order to try and keep the process fair to both sides and ensure consistency between trials. The implementation of legal aid ensures that poorer offenders have access to the legal system and receive a fair trial. The measures both legal and non-legal through the criminal trial process ensure that each offender receives a fair trial in which they can be correctly convicted and effectively sentenced.

Mirko Bagaric and Penny Dimopoulos argue that the introduction of mandatory pro bono will only encourage the government to continue to decrease it’s funding of legal aid services as the government will further shirk the responsibility onto the legal profession. For example, the current Australian budget has proposed yet another large decrease in government funding for 2017-2018, this includes the quarantining of some of the community legal centre funding. Furthermore, it is not fair of the government to place an expectation on the legal to perform legal services for free when there is no similar altruistic expectation placed on professional from other areas, such as: physiotherapists, chiropractors, doctors and psychologists. All the services provided by these other professions for “free” or at a discount are usually done so because the costs are then subsidized by the government. The introduction of mandatory pro bono should not be seen as a means for the government to avoid their responsibility to the legal community, instead if it is to be introduce it would need to be followed by the agreement of the government to provide more funding to legal

"In 2003-04, for example, the Australian Government contribution to legal aid funding was $130 million, compared to its contribution of $159 million in 1996-97", In what way the government thought this would assist in the search for affordable services for the Average Australian is hard to clarify. As a consequence, more and more people are having to either give up on their freedom or represent themselves in court which costs the courts large sums of money and employs an un-even playing

The Plaintiff’s estate was sequestrated in Federal Magistrates Court on May 12 2009, for failure to pay Council court costs [10]. An application by the Plaintiff for an extension in time to appeal this sequestration was

This paper is prepared in order to understand the IRAC format (Issues, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion). The IRAC format is considered as the standard format for soling the case studies of the law. In this paper, the case of “ROADS AND TRAFFIC AUTHORITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES V DEDERER (2007)” is selected to demonstrate the learning about the comprehension and understanding of terminology of law, particularly the terms used in the Law of Tort. Moreover, critical things and case law searching to solve the case study is also practiced and properly referenced in the solution of the case study. Here is the case study solution:

One may argue that this inequity is a farce because the use of contingency fees gives most personal injury clients access to legal services that would otherwise be impossible if the client were forced to pay the lawyer's hourly fee. The contingency fee provides such clients with access to legal representation otherwise beyond their means.

this is situations when people start to become aware or their own legal rights and looking to seek compensation. an individual will bring the case forward against another person (defendant) to claim any damages that have been caused.

Nowadays, hiring a lawyer in UK and Wales can be quite expensive. A trainee solicitor in Great Britain hourly rate can start from a hundred and eleven pounds per hour and ranges from this to a first grade solicitor in London who would charge four hundred and nine pounds per hour . It is obvious that not everyone can afford the price of justice. Legal funding is vital as this can give a chance to people that are of lesser means, to review their case. There are various types of legal funding that I will examine in my essay for example, legal aid, private funding, conditional fee agreements, damages-based agreements and pro-bono. However, there are some ethical complications related to how these types of funding is used. Are they really used wisely and fairly based on their scope? I am going to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the various types, in order to come to a conclusion. On the other hand, there are many people claiming that technological innovations would be a very good way to compensate for lack of funding. Technological innovations such as, robot lawyer Lisa , Lexis Nexis chatbot and kiosks.

“This case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a statutory scheme

Cuts in legal aid are causing problems for the ordinary people and leaving them without vital support because there has been a reform in legal aid, which are the cuts. In this assignment, I will discuss the two-different side of impact of legal aid cuts on the people and how this act has impacted legal aid.

Jeremy Waldron, a professor of law and society, demonstrates the institution of tort liability and the issues that arises on the desert-based system. With the example of Fate, having to pay a large amount of money to Hurt for a moment of carelessness while doing the same act as Fortune, he shows how tort liability can be unjust and unfair. Two cases present examples of how Waldron would approve and disapprove the rulings.

Undoubtedly, the use of unpaid lay justices is cheap, not only because they are unpaid but also the cost of the trial itself is much less expensive than in the Crown Court. In 1999, the Home Office Research and Planning Unit estimated the average cost of a contested trial in the Magistrates’ Court at £1,500 and a guilty plea at £500. The comparative figures for the Crown Court were £13,500 and £2,500 respectively. However, part of this difference is due to the fact that cases in the Crown Court are more complex and therefore likely to take longer; but even so, it is clear that the cost both to the Government and to defendants who pay for their own lawyer is much higher in the Crown Court.

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This paper aims to explore the Legal Services Act 2007 and the impact the Act has had on the role of a Costs Lawyer since implementation.

“The essential purpose and most basic principle of tort law is that the plaintiff must be placed in the position he or she would have been in absent the defendant’s fault or negligence.” It is impossible to fully restore the plaintiff, as he will never be fully restored. However, compensation is the best way to put the plaintiff back into his original position. Even though most resources of the tort system are spent on dealing with claims, it is a very slow process as it is so complex because it involves many parties. It is often time consuming and expensive to file a claim, making it very cost-ineffective. The increased involvement of insurance companies has made it even more time consuming, with the introduction of their own