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• Children should be taught the moral and practical benefits of traditional family life.

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 586
  This morning the Labour Party have published a green paper supporting the institution of marriage and conceding that children fare better when parents stay together. A number of Labour’s proposals can be found in the Family Law White Paper that was presented, debated and accepted by delegates at the British ...
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• Gov’t cuts hurt free law services

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 144
  Nassau/Suffolk Law Services, the principal group that provides free legal help to the needy in civil cases in those counties, is being forced to shut programs due to shrinking government funding, even as demand rises.And the Hempstead-based organization worries things are likely to get worse, since much of their money ...
  1 day ago

• Op-Ed Contributors: A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  As more cash-strapped litigants represent themselves in court, the rules should be changed to allow them to obtain legal services on a limited basis.
  5 days ago

• Accused Pakistani Christian Says Muslims Tried to Coerce Him

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 137
  Freed on bail, Naveed Masih on trial for killing Muslim in Islamist attack on Gojra.LAHORE, Pakistan, December 29 (CDN) — A Pakistani Christian accused of killing a Muslim during the Aug. 1 Islamist attack on Christians in Gojra said he was arrested and tortured only because he was a key witness of the mob assault ...
  5 days ago

• A more glorious dawn awaits: Nota Bene #2009-47

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 491
  “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “One guy is setting actual policy, and ...
  6 days ago

• Another Good Thing Happened in 2009

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 115
  The office is quiet today, the last day of 2009. In fact, most people are off. But I thought it would be a good time to catch up on some of those pending to-dos. And this post is one of those on my to-do list. A few weeks back, on December 17, 2009, the Supreme Court of South Carolina issued an order amending Rule ...
  6 days ago

• Treatment of Youths in New York Prisons Spurs Suit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  A class-action lawsuit says young detainees in some of the state’s facilities have suffered bruises, cuts and other injuries from aggressive restraining practices.
  1 week ago

• Do we need more Family Court Judges in SC?

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 115
  This is the question that recently arose in New York.  According to this post , the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee recommended immediately adding 21 family court judges to the bench. The Committee’s full report is available here . Interestingly, the reason for the increase is an increase in need due ...
  1 week ago

• Low-Income DC Residents Face More Legal Problems, Fewer Services

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 116
  A new report by the DC Access to Justice Commission and the DC Consortium of Legal Services Providers brings the growing gap between low-income peoples needs for legal services and the capacities of legal assistance programs to provide them. A report issued last year by the DC Access to Justice Commission concluded ...
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• Billions to Fight Foreclosure, but Few New Loans

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 171
  New Yorkers in danger of losing their homes meet lawyers sent to make their loans more manageable. But they soon learn that lenders have little incentive to go along.
  1 week ago

• Billions to Fight Foreclosure, but Few New Loans

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Thomas Vellucci of Queens is a plaintiff in a lawsuit asserting he and others were denied access to the federal rescue plan.
  1 week ago

• China executes British national, sparking outrage (AFP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 171
  AFP – China executed a Briton said to have serious mental health problems for drug smuggling despite last-minute pleas Tuesday for clemency, … Visit link: (AFP)"> (AFP)">China executes British national, sparking outrage (AFP)
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• Rule 608

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 115
  SC Appellate Court Rules, Rule 608. Appointment of Lawyers for Indigents January 2009. The South Carolina Bar (SCBar) files a petition with the Supreme Court of South Carolina to modify Rule 608 so that no attorneys would be appointed to serve as lawyers for indigents without full compensation. February ...
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• Family visit Briton on eve of planned China execution (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 180
  AFP - Relatives of a British man due to be executed in China for drug trafficking said they had visited him on death row on Monday after making a last-ditch appeal to Beijing for clemency.
  1 week ago

• Justice for All?

  
  Rights & Remedies — Authority: 99
  This brief video by Access Justice includes eye-opening interviews with lawyers and low income clients about the difficulty in accessing British Columbias legal system and is worth a look: Find more Rights & Remedies at http://rightsandremedies.blogspot.com/
  2 weeks ago

• Who is this man?

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 115
  Meet Bradley Ridlehoover. Why is he important? Because as of this summer, he has been working as a deferred associate at South Carolina Legal Services in Greenville in their Low Income Taxpayer Clinics area. So how did he end up there? Well, he started out in the Piedmont area, with an interest in law. ...
  2 weeks ago

• F. William McCalpin, Champion of Legal Aid to Poor, Dies at 88

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  A fierce advocate of the Legal Services Corporation, Mr. McCalplin was a proud Republican who nonetheless clashed with Ronald Regan over financing, and won.
  2 weeks ago

• Legal Aid’s First Annual Benefit @ The Entry w/ Kill The Vultures

  
  More Cowbell — Authority: 134
  First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry presents a great line-up on Friday, December 18th to benefit Legal Aid! Come party with Alicia Wiley, The Alpha Centauri, Little Man, Kill the Vultures and Ada Jane. Fantastic concert T shirts are available. Tickets are only $7 and benefit Legal Aid, Working Toward Justice for All! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Partnerships to the Nth Power

  
  YALSA — Authority: 439
  The coolest thing about forming partnerships between libraries, city agencies and community-based organizations is that they seem to develop exponentially.  Maybe it’s just the nature of networking, maybe it’s that, like librarians, social workers and case managers in service agencies are used to doing more with ...
  2 weeks ago

• F. William McCalpin, Champion of Legal Aid to Poor, Dies at 88

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  F. William McCalpin
  3 weeks ago

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