The more important omission is any recognition of the efforts of legal aid Manitoba to discourage private bar lawyers from taking on clients. Under Gerry McNeilly's tutelage, legal aid has instituted a policy to deny choice of counsel to clients who can be streamed into the "corroborative law" program, or, with a few exceptions, are respondents in child welfare proceedings. What this means is that, if a person wishing to obtain custody and child support, for example, contacts and wishes to retain me, and I send in an application to legal aid, the latter will hand the file to one of their own lawyers! Ditto, child welfare applications. If McNeilly is looking to reduce the number of lawyers willing to take on legal aid cases, he's going about it the right way. Allan Fineblit, CEO of the ...
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This time, here they are making announcements indicating they've heard you even while you're still in a meeting," [Ron Stevens] said. "Given our criminal law agenda, generally it's going to be very difficult," he said. "We need to see the opposition parties start to move on this legislation, to take it seriously. "We made the case, the judge is out," [Wally Oppal] said. "We don't know when we'll get the verdict."
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The BC Supreme Court tries to put out a decision within three months," she said, during a telephone interview on May 14. "We're almost into our seventh month and we haven't heard anything. I know the judge had made comments that it was going to go up the line to the Supreme Court of Canada so she's going to make sure that every 'T' is crossed and 'I' is dotted. "That's another case. And we've got to take that on because if we don't in another generation and a half we won't have any status Indians," she added. "A properly prepared and argued case on legal aid wages, meaning nothing lucrative, costs about $120,000 and I don't have that in my back pocket right now or even in my front pocket," she said, laughing. "A substantial part of my case has been supported by the Court Challenges Pr...
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