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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-09-21/11/
21 Sep 2011 -
Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011: Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-09-21/10/
21 Sep 2011 -
Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-09-21/11/
21 Sep 2011 -
of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011....criminal justice system are made public by both the lobbyist and the lobbied and where the Minister for...Under section 3(1) of the Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011, which is before the...If, as a result of the enactment of this Bill, lobbying of the prosecution services were to be made legal...Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011,
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2011-09-21/11/
21 Sep 2011 -
Senator Cáit Keane This proposed legislation relates to lobbying in criminal cases....as many a fine politician has fallen on the sword of lobbying in criminal cases....The practice of lobbying in criminal legal cases should not be allowed under any circumstances....is narrow in its scope because it deals solely with lobbying in criminal cases while it is clear that...a Bill which addresses lobbying in a broader policy making process is needed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-01-14/439/
14 Jan 2015 -
Minister for Justice and Equality Total expenditure on criminal legal aid for the years referred to...The nature of the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme is that it is demand led, driven by the incidence of crime..., detection rates and the prosecution of cases through the courts system....In seeking to reduce the expenditure on the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, the rates of fees paid to the...I can inform the Deputy that a new Criminal Legal Aid Bill is currently being drafted to update and strengthen
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-11-26/16/
26 Nov 2015 -
Barrett I move amendment No. 24: In page 20, line 1, after “services” to insert the following: “and cases...cost of a grant of probate is charged by the Probate Office at a higher rate to a lay person than to a legal...Senator Quinn and I tabled our amendment because we wanted to look at cases where the cost of a grant...of probate is charged, by the probate office, at a higher rate to a lay person than to a legal practitioner...Our source of inspiration came from an article published in The Examiner on 25 November 2011.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-04-22/16/
22 Apr 2015 -
issues while also seeking to best serve the public interest relating to the possible disclosure of criminal...as this would dismantle and disrupt the annual and other reporting architecture of the proposed Bill....deals with annual reports on admission policies for the legal professions and of section 32 which deals...Amendment No. 47 relates to the report on the education and training arrangements in the State for legal...The Bill currently provides that this report should be produced within one year of the establishment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-04-22/25/
22 Apr 2015 -
50: In page 45, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: "(i) the act or omission, in the case...of a legal practitioner who is a legal executive, is likely to bring the legal executives’ profession...This group of amendments relates to the legal executives who work in the provision of legal services....They have lobbied me and, I am sure, other Deputies and they have met the Minister....They are an integral part of the provision of legal services.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-11-26/16/
26 Nov 2015 -
It is a key plank of this innovation and was very strongly recommended by the working group report on...Minister for Health was extremely keen from the point of view of patients and having more efficient legal...processes that we would succeed in getting this into the Bill....We have seen many cases recently where this has been an issue....I think this now clarifies that and is very much in line with the working group report.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-11-26/16/
26 Nov 2015 -
Frances Fitzgerald All I can say is that it is those kinds of cost anomalies that one would expect a legal...If there is any expectation, as cases develop as they often do and different costs come into play, then...There is a new legal costs adjudicator as well....The whole question of costs is central to the Bill in terms of a new transparency and an obligation on...the legal services regulatory authority to oversee that.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-02-20/26/
20 Feb 2013 -
The criminal legal aid scheme is based on the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 and a series of regulations...For example, the Supreme Court ruling in the case of The State (Healy) v ....rates and prosecution of cases through the courts system....million, a reduction of 10% over 2011....The draft of the new legal aid Bill includes provisions to transfer responsibility for the administration
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-04-22/16/
22 Apr 2015 -
However, key safeguards have been put in place in case such an event arises, and, therefore, we cannot...The policy approach being taken under section 99 of the Bill is that the authority will, within a year...professional codes, that are required to be made in the event that the restrictions are retained, or, as the case..., in some cases, overlapping functions, there is a very substantial platform upon which, supported by...The report will also focus on their likely impact on legal costs, the provision of legal services to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-12-09/29/
9 Dec 2015 -
As Deputy Shatter said earlier, it was published in late 2011....The real test of whether the Bill will pass muster is whether consumers will see reductions in legal...We have free legal aid in criminal cases but we need to have a look at the civil side of things....The criminal legal aid demand uses up the entire amount of the budget but people are coming into our...Some people mentioned the media reporting of it.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice, Defence And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_defence_and_equality/2012-03-21/3/
21 Mar 2012 -
I think one would want to examine them on a case by case basis....I guess this committee will have to consider the question of whether the Bill should state that a report...It would be worthwhile considering a wider set of models than just the two in the Bill....In our report on page 105, we also considered other models for solicitor services, whereby there could...awe of solicitors, are afraid of getting a bill that they will not be able to pay, and they do not know
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2015-05-13/13/
13 May 2015 -
a half years ago in December 2011....of the legal professions and as the co-author of a 2003 report into gender discrimination in the legal...At our first seminar last week on women and legal change, we heard about some very important cases that...Looking at the first of the Minister's levers for change, the Bill provides for a new, independent legal...I speak as one who practised at the criminal Bar.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-11/4/
11 Jul 2014 -
The public interest is on occasion not in accord with the cases made by the vested interest groups....There is also a particular provision in the code of conduct that applies particularly to court cases...The vision of the Bill of providing alternative business structures for delivering legal services is...professional practice committee should have taken it upon himself to pronounce judgment in the Guerin report...This is a public interest issue and it is important, given all of the lobbying that takes place behind
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice, Defence And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_defence_and_equality/2012-03-21/3/
21 Mar 2012 -
We echo the concerns expressed on legal costs....what changes are introduced, if young practitioners, solicitors and barristers are lucky to take on a legal...case for a client, yet the case is not taken for two years, the energy and capital the person has put...We are very conscious of that difficulty and we have proposals on it in respect of the criminal justice...Barristers, and the legal profession in general, do not have an interest in cases being delayed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-09-27/304/
27 Sep 2011 -
annual reports, which are laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and are available to the Deputy in...aid cases, whether by the Board's own solicitors or those engaged on its Private Practitioner panels...legal aid, expenditure in each of the years 2006 to 2011 is as set out in the following table....I am informed that information regarding the number of persons to whom criminal legal aid was granted...Year Expenditure on Criminal Legal Aid€ (000) Number of Certificates Granted 2011 (to 31 July
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-12-09/29/
9 Dec 2015 -
Agreement of Seanad amendments, other than amendments Nos. 61, 76, 89, 90, 95, 98, 193 and 257, is reported...to 192, inclusive, 194 to 256, inclusive, and 258 to 280, inclusive, made by Seanad Éireann to the Legal...Services Regulation Bill 2011, and, second, Dáil Éireann has agreed to amendments Nos. 61, 76, 89, 90..., 193 and 257, with amendments thereto, to which the agreement of Seanad Éireann is desired in each case
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-03-21/320/
21 Mar 2012 -
Justice (Legal Aid) Bill is being drafted which will transfer the management and administration of criminal...legal aid to the Legal Aid Board....Aid Board on 1 November 2011, in line with the provisions of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions...) Act 2011....As I have set out to the House previously, I am firmly of the view that, in many family law cases, mediation
