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Lia Moses
- Opinion
£10 too wealthy for legal aid
Today I received an application from an individual who was roughly £18 per month too wealthy to qualify for legal aid.
- Opinion
Helping out litigants in person
A report has been published by the Judicial Working Group on litigants in person. It explores possible judicial responses to the expected rise in litigants in person caused by the recent cuts to public funding for legal aid.
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Pro bono and volunteering
The Olympics, and the big society, have, among other things, put volunteering firmly in the public consciousness of late.
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Online advice: more out of less
An independent commission, launched on Monday, will look at how to develop strategies to cope with the impending cuts to public funding for legal aid. The chair of this commission, Lord Low, has been reported as saying that this will be about getting ‘more out of less’.
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Should pro bono be compulsory?
by Lia Moses, a caseworker at LawWorks, a national charity working with solicitors to support pro bono across the profession
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If you can’t do, learn
Have you ever wondered how a lawyer who practises in, say, commercial law would ever be able to help an individual with the sorts of legal issues encountered by someone with sufficiently limited means to qualify for pro bono assistance?
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LASPO: we are all in it together
Recently the number of requests from individuals in need of pro bono assistance seems to have rapidly risen. I hear from colleagues that the situation is similar for other pro bono projects, and there seems to be a general consensus within the sector that when the Legal Aid, Sentencing and ...
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The London Legal Walk: a show of solidarity
Times are hard in certain sections of the legal profession. There are many different views on what would be an appropriate response to the cuts in public funding scheduled to come into force in April 2013. Some believe that pro bono is a necessary safety net to protect the most ...
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Judges can and should be involved in pro bono
I have heard it said that judges cannot get involved in pro bono work. On the contrary, I can think of many and various ways in which judges might get involved. And, in fact, a good number are already doing so.
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Pro bono: are lawyers leading the way?
Working at the National Pro Bono Centre I get to observe a large portion of the organised pro bono activities undertaken by members of the legal profession. One of the first things that struck me when I started working as a caseworker at LawWorks was the scale of the volunteer ...