Criminal Legal Aid Resources
Criminal Legal Aid Resources
This section includes papers, reports, studies, management and delivery tools related to criminal legal aid
Barristers have blamed the problem on changes which have seen the centralisation of the service.
The costs and benefits of criminal justice policies and activities affect everyone.
Criminal Legal Aid Reform, the Right to Choose and the ECHR - Some Thoughts
20.05.2013 Criminal Legal Aid Resources
One of the most contentious proposals in the Green Paper on the transforming legal aid is the removal of client choice in criminal cases.
Our criminal justice system is admired throughout the world – how many things can we now say that about?
The MoJ's public consultations on legal aid reforms show they are open-minded, but if the aim remains to reduce spending, what about the cost to justice?
‘The system is sick’: Canada’s courts are choking on an increase in evidence
17.05.2013 Criminal Legal Aid Resources
Evidence, the single most important element of a court case, is choking the life out of Canada’s judicial system; or, more specifically, the analysis, management, disclosure and argument over evidence are the guilty parties at the end of this whodunit.
Reasonable Doubt: "Access to justice" does not exist in B.C.
16.05.2013 Criminal Legal Aid Resources
IN THE PAST 20 years, funding for legal aid has been cut to such an extent that most people cannot obtain funding for their legal issues.
The Law Society has called for a complete rethink of the government’s ‘economically unworkable’ and ‘potentially unlawful’ criminal legal aid proposals.
Secret Imprisonment, Rule of Law and Legal Aid Under Attack – The Human Rights Roundup
14.05.2013 Criminal Legal Aid Resources
Welcome back to the UK Human Rights Roundup, your regular assortment of human rights news. The full list of links can be found here. You can also find our table of human rights cases here and previous roundups here.
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman on Wednesday announced $24 million in grants aimed at boosting representation for indigent criminal defendants across upstate New York.