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Access to Justice

Questão 1 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 2 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

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

  • 2. Legal Aid

Explicação

Questão 3 de 32

1

When will legal aid be available?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

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

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

Explicação

Questão 4 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1. Medical Negligence

  • 2. Trespass on land or property

  • 3. Criminal cases

  • 4.

Explicação

Questão 5 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 6 de 32

1

Why is this problematic?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 7 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 8 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 9 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1. Director of a local council

  • 2. CEO of a big law firm

  • 3. Director of the legal aid Agency

Explicação

Questão 10 de 32

1

State three criteria which apply to this:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 11 de 32

1

What are the financial limits for legal aid?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 12 de 32

1

Who can provide legal aid services?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

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

  • 2. Just Law Firms

Explicação

Questão 13 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1. Head of criminal casework

  • 2. Prison authority

Explicação

Questão 14 de 32

1

Who would provide legal advice in this situation?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 15 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1.s27

  • 2. s13

  • 3. s12

  • 4. s15

Explicação

Questão 16 de 32

1

What does legal proceedings include?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1. Court cases

  • 2. Tribunals

  • 3.Extradition orders

Explicação

Questão 17 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 18 de 32

1

What are the financial restrictions on legal aid?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 19 de 32

1

What is a CFA?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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.

Explicação

Questão 20 de 32

1

What are Citizens Advice Bureaux?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 21 de 32

1

What are law centres?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 22 de 32

1

What free services are offered by Solicitors and Barristers?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 23 de 32

1

Preencha os espaços em branco para completar o 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

Explicação

Questão 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?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 25 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicação

Questão 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?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 27 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicação

Questão 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?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 29 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 1.

  • 2.

Explicação

Questão 30 de 32

1

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 31 de 32

1

How do CFA's work?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

Questão 32 de 32

1

What are success fees?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 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

Explicação

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