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Access to Justice

Pregunta 1 de 32

1

Why is access to justice important?
a) In civil cases:
b) In criminal cases:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a) Provides Fairness, helps with funding

  • b) Their freedom is at risk

  • a) Allows for individual rights to be enforced

  • b) Criminals need a good trial

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 32

1

Under which act of parliament does the Ministry of Justice Control Legal Aid?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

  • 2. Legal Aid

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 32

1

When will legal aid be available?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. The person cannot afford to pay legal fees and the case is eligible

  • 2. Where the case is serious e.g domestic abuse

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 32

1

In which areas of law is legal aid no longer available?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Medical Negligence

  • 2. Trespass on land or property

  • 3. Criminal cases

  • 4.

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 32

1

What does "means tested" mean in relation to legal aid?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Testing to see if a person has a lawyer

  • 2. Testing if a person is able to go to court

  • 3. How much money somebody has including income and home ownership before deciding whether or not to give them money

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 32

1

Why is this problematic?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Many people who actually own their own home don't have spare money even if they earn a lot of money

  • 2. People are unaware of the amount of money they have

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 32

1

What effect has the low rates of pay for legal aid had on legal service providers?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. They cant pay for the staff

  • 2. Have opened business elsewhere in places other than the legal services

  • 3. Many have decided that due to low pay they have suffered and don't feel like carrying on giving more money

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 32

1

In which type of civil case can legal aid be provided?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Debt

  • 2. Welfare Benefits

  • 3. Education

  • 4. Housing

  • 5. Asylum

  • 6. Discrimination

  • 7. Immigration

  • Family

  • Children and Domestic Abuse

  • Mental health and Community care

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 32

1

Who decides if a person qualifies for legal aid in a civil case?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Director of a local council

  • 2. CEO of a big law firm

  • 3. Director of the legal aid Agency

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 32

1

State three criteria which apply to this:

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. The cost of the services and the benefit which may be obtained

  • 2. The chance of success

  • 3. The availability of the services

  • The person

  • The nature and seriousness of the case

  • The chance of success

  • The public interest

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 32

1

What are the financial limits for legal aid?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. If you earn more than £31,834 per year your eligible

  • 2. If you earn more than £800 per month your eligible

  • If you earn more than £700 per month then your eligible

  • If you earn more than £30,340

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 32

1

Who can provide legal aid services?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Organisations who have a contract with the legal aid agency (LAA)

  • 2. Just Law Firms

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 32

1

Which section of which act governs legal aid for those in custody?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Head of criminal casework

  • 2. Prison authority

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 32

1

Who would provide legal advice in this situation?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. The Head of criminal casework

  • 2. A duty solicitor from a law firm that the legal aid agency would have made a contract with

  • 3. A barrister from chambers that the legal agency would have made a contract with

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 32

1

Which section of which act govern legal aid in criminal legal proceedings?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.s27

  • 2. s13

  • 3. s12

  • 4. s15

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 32

1

What does legal proceedings include?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Court cases

  • 2. Tribunals

  • 3.Extradition orders

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 32

1

What factors will be considered in deciding if the individual gets legal aid in legal proceedings?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. If the individual is likely to lose their liberty loss of reputation

  • 2. Whether the individual is able to understand or present their case on their own

  • 3. Whether or not the person committed a crime

  • 4. Whether the proceedings concern an important question of law

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 32

1

What are the financial restrictions on legal aid?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. If the claimants income is this £ 23,456 or more than they aren't likely to receive legal aid

  • 2. If Claimants income is this £22,325 or more than they aren't likely to receive legal aid

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 32

1

What is a CFA?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Conditional Fee agreements, available only in Cival cases except family. Work by the solicitor and client agreeing on a fee that would be charged and a success fee if the case is won. Usually the agreement is if the case is lost no fee is to be paid. Known as "no win no fee arrangement".

  • 2.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 32

1

What are Citizens Advice Bureaux?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Charity organisation set up in most towns to provide free legal advice to anyone on a variety of issues set up in 1938

  • 2. Lawyers who approach different people with legal advice free of charge

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 32

1

What are law centres?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Open since 1970s offer free non means tested legal advice to people in their area aim to provide legal advice where access is limited

  • 2. Places where solicitors work

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 32

1

What free services are offered by Solicitors and Barristers?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1. Solicitors provide free or fixed fee initial interviews also offer accident legal advice service to help accident victims claim compensation Barristers give their time no free of charge free representation unit to represent clients

  • 2. Solictors and Barristers give their money to critical cases

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 32

1

Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

Summarise the disadvantages of the current system of legal aid

Advice created as legal aid firms due to
Less becomes available for so access to justice is
Lots of people with little spare are legal aid
The interests means many defendants don't and cant get

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 32

1

Davina is claiming £50,000 for personal injury against her employer after being blinded by a faulty lighting rig. She is single and earns £17,000 per year. Is it true that Davina will be able to claim for legal aid?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 32

1

Give a reason or reasons. Also suggest an alternative source of legal advice if one may be available.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 32

1

Darcey is charged with shoplifting. She earns £30,000 per year
Is it true that Darcey will be able to claim for legal aid?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 32

1

Give a reason or reasons. Also suggest an alternative source of legal advice if one may be available.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 32

1

Susan earns £1800 per month. Her partner Jack earns £900 per month. She is claiming against her local council for discrimination in relation to her housing claim. Is it true that Susan will be able to claim for legal aid?

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 32

1

Give a reason or reasons. Also suggest an alternative source of legal advice if one may be available.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 32

1

Private Funding and Conditional Fee Agreements- What happens when a person isn't eligible for legal aid?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They may have to pay large amounts for a solicitor (private funding)

  • Or take out a conditional fee agreement available in all civil cases except family cases, but not in criminal cases

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 32

1

How do CFA's work?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The solicitor and client agree on the fee that would normally be charged for such a case and a success fee. if the case is lost usually no fee is to be paid (no win no fee arrangement)

  • The solicitor and client agree on what the client will pay the solicitor

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 32

1

What are success fees?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Success fees are usually capped at 25% of the damages that the client wins. winner has to pay because the loser cannot be required to pay the winners success fee

  • The claimant pays all the money

  • Claimants can also take out insurance in case they lose and have to pay the other side's legal costs. The premium for this cannot be reclaimed from the other side following LASPO 2012

Explicación

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