Objectives

may also be permitted, subject to certain requirements, and the practitioner is allowed to charge up to double the scale rates i ...

A Legal Aid scheme exists to provide access to the legal system for many people who are unable to afford a lawyer, and to provid ...

merit test is a requirement that the applicant has a reasonable prospect of success in the case. Legal assistance and representa ...

The problem which Legal Aid Council has in prioritizing very scarce resources amongst different categories of needy claimants ar ...

Legal Services for the Disadvantaged Some jurisdictions have responded to the need for access to justice for those who cannot af ...

The Legal Aid Council has offices in most sate capitals. They entrust with legal aid structure in say Australia. They former is ...

Reality has not always matched rhetoric. Early visions that the centres would be managed and controlled by “the community” throu ...

resembles court-based adjudication – in that a neutral third party decides the case for the parties. The form of alternative dis ...

Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms have many advantages. They are generally cheaper and more speedy than court processes. ...

majority of all disputes are settled without an adjudication by a judge, the proper comparison to be made is between mediation a ...

particular feature of family law. Judges have a broad discretion in dividing the property of a husband and wife following marria ...

Centrifugal laws may sometimes be arbitrary, but they simplify the messages the law gives, thereby reducing the numbers of dispu ...

withstand storms, and are more vulnerable to the winds of change. Vibrant new growth may sometimes be purchased only at the pric ...

The western legal tradition has changed much over the centuries of its life. No one century has left it unaltered. It is an evol ...

Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law, Report No 31 (Sydney, 1986); Naffine, N, Law and the Sexes (Allen and ...

Closed Circuit Television, and is Able TO Communicate with Defence Lawyers. Of all States and Territories, Western Australian ha ...

See, eg, Bullivant, B, “Australia’s Pluralist Dilemma: An Age-old Problem in a New Guise”s (1983) 55 Australian Quarterly 136; J ...

There is a Specific Legislative Exemption for Sikhs in England: Motor Cycle Crash Helmets (Religious Exemption) Act 1976. For th ...

Galanter, M, “Justice in Many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering and Indigenous Law” (1981) 19 Journal of Legal Pluralism & Uno ...

Significantly, Cass and Sackville Found that there was no Difference between the Income Level of those who Consulted a Lawyer an ...