Example sentences of "[prep] law centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or should certain classes of work be reserved exclusively for law centres ? |
| 2 | I make no secret of the fact that we should have a public legal system in Britain , funded by central Government through law centres . |
| 3 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 4 | These are issues which have been the subject of research and discussion in the last two decades reflecting the growing awareness of the existence of an unmet need for legal assistance with problems and the development of law centres and other agencies to meet it . |
| 5 | If the provision of legal services is to be limited to those matters in which the sufferer realises that there is a situation of difficulty for which the law provides a means of solution and with which a lawyer can be of assistance much of the pioneering work of law centres would be nullified . |
| 6 | One of the most significant developments in the provision of legal advice and assistance over the last 20 years has been the emergence of law centres . |
| 7 | As there are many centres , so there are many different ways of operating , but in a survey conducted for the Royal Commission an extract from a document prepared by the Legal Action Group was found helpful , not only for the description of law centres , but also for the distinction it drew between their function and that of legal advice centres . |
| 8 | It is important to point out the major differences between the work of law centres and that of the private profession . |
| 9 | The Legal Aid Board has said itself to be impressed with the contribution of law centres to the provision of legal services in the areas they serve . |
| 10 | These have already been compared with law centres earlier in this chapter and it was noted then that they are staffed by volunteer lawyers , have limited opening hours , offer only advice , and make no charge for the service provided . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note the different sorts of problems brought to lawyers in law centres and other advice agencies . |
| 12 | Thus , the profession was protected against competition from law centres in these matters but was not required to refrain from dealing in those matters which ‘ normally ’ go to law centres . |
| 13 | Despite receiving warm commendation from the Commission , the Committee 's response was cool with further criticism of the proposals on law centres and practice in deprived areas . |
| 14 | After much acrimony an agreement was reached in 1977 about the conditions under which the Law Society would grant waivers to law centres and it was thereafter no longer a source of difficulty . |
| 15 | Thus , the profession was protected against competition from law centres in these matters but was not required to refrain from dealing in those matters which ‘ normally ’ go to law centres . |
| 16 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 17 | Consequently , they recommended that ‘ campaigning ’ should be funded from elsewhere and not undertaken by law centres . |
| 18 | The long and bitter dispute in Hillingdon which culminated in the closure of the centre in April 1979 and the closure of the three Wandsworth law centres in January 1980 illustrate the problems faced by law centres . |
| 19 | He supports the curtailment , apparently , of green-form advice , which I believe is largely motivated by the embarrassment which the Government have suffered from a number of very successful cases that have been mounted against Home Office decisions by law centres and legal aid practices throughout the country . |