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unusual facts about legal aid



Eric Sachs

He led a team of barristers that collaborated with Sydney Littlewood and other solicitors from the Law Society in formulating the legal aid scheme created under the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949.

Margaret M. Morrow

She has received numerous awards, including the Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae Award from the Judicial Council of California; the Shattuck-Price Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Ernestine Stahlhut Award from the Women Lawyers’ Association of Los Angeles, and the Maynard Toll Award from the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

Murder of Rosie Palmer

After a number of years during which very little was reported about the Rosie Palmer murder case, Armstrong returned to the headlines in September 2001 when he was granted Legal Aid to pursue a £15,000 compensation claim against Bernard O'Mahoney for "breach of confidence".

Pablo Almaguer

Almaguer was the first legal aid lawyer to serve on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, and the first attorney from Hidalgo County to be elected to the position of chair.

Teina Pora

However it is still uncertain whether the appeal will go ahead as Pora's application for legal aid is still pending.

Violent and Sex Offender Register

In December 2012, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 was enacted, which made a number of amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.


see also

Acid Survivors Foundation

ASF provides legal support for survivors by referring them to its legal partners including BRAC, Aino Salish Kendro (ASK), the Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association (BNWLA), and the Bangladesh Legal Aid Services and Trust (BLAST).

Alexander Chaplin

Chaplin also appeared in an episode of Law & Order (Season 14, episode 1, "Bodies") as pompous yet ethical legal-aid attorney Timothy Schwimmer who has to defend a serial killer (played by Ritchie Coster).

Awesome Android

Acquiring sentience, the Android rebels against the Thinker and seeks legal aid from law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway (the firm that employs Jennifer Walters, the alter ego of heroine She-Hulk).

Awn

Awn Access to Justice Network in Gaza Strip, Legal Aid Network operate in Gaza Strip, Palestine.

International Bridges to Justice

IBJ provides training and support to the Fellows, who go on to head the IBJ Country Programs and to provide legal aid to the local population.

Kalyanee Mam

During law school, Mam worked with International Bridges to Justice at the National Legal Aid Center in Beijing, China, the Refugee Law Clinic at the University of Witswatersand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, where she assisted immigrant victims of domestic violence file for permanent residence status in the United States under the Violence Against Women Act.

Kirk Cashmere

After studying Law at the University of Hawaii, he served as legal director for the ACLU, worked with the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and the Life Foundation, and was a member of the state's Ethics Committee.

Layli Miller-Muro

Layli Miller-Muro is the Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting women from human rights abuses through the provision of legal aid and public policy advocacy.

Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949

The Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 was a British Act of Parliament which provided people unable to pay for a solicitor with free legal aid.

Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez

The purpose of the act was to provide government-funded legal aid to indigent clients, funded through grants to regional entities throughout the country.

Matter of Kasinga

Layli Miller-Muro, the student attorney who represented Kassindja before the immigration judge, subsequently founded the Tahirih Justice Center to provide legal aid and medical referrals to immigrant women escaping from gender-based violence and persecution.

Ronald K. L. Collins

After working with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Collins was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School.

Sylvia Lim

She later did voluntary editorial work for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme of the Law Society of Singapore.

Symbiosis Law School

Ram Jethmalani, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, has been associated with Symbiosis Law School, Pune as Professor Emeritus since 6 September 2003 and has delivered public lectures at Symbiosis, guiding the community service activities through his continuous support in the legal aid service and setting up of a permanent Legal Aid Centre at Pirangut village, near Pune.

Vaccine injury

In 2003, parents of over 1,000 United Kingdom children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, alleging the MMR vaccine was the culprit, were dealt a major setback by decision by the Legal Services Commission to withdraw legal aid.