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More People Seeking Legal Advice on Housing - FLAC
The figures are contained in FLAC’s annual report. The Free Legal Advice Centre has reported a significant increase in people seeking advice over housing law issues, particularly with regards to the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants. The figures are contained in FLAC’s annual…
Author: RTE News
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FLAC welcomes decision to quash jury ban on deaf woman
No blanket exclusion of deaf jurors, but state should go further – FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres), which represented deaf woman Joan Clarke, welcomed the ruling of the High Court today quashing a decision of the Galway County Registrar to “excuse” Ms Clarke from jury service.…
Author: Free Legal Advice Centres
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Flac reports rise in debt queries
BY CÍAN NIHILL Ireland urgently needs a better debt settlement system according to Free Legal Advice Centres (Flac) who experienced a 45 per cent increase in debt-related queries in 2010. In its annual report released today, the voluntary legal aid organisation revealed that since 2007,…
Author: Irish Times
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FLAC’s Seventh Annual Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture
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Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Social welfare appeals process not fit for purpose
SAOIRSE BRADY Thu, Feb 07, 2013 Opinion: With a national unemployment rate of 14.6 per cent – the fourth highest in the EU – it is no surprise that more people are turning to the social welfare system for basic assistance. It is also unsurprising that,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Welfare Appeals System ‘Needs Radical Overhaul’
By Conall Ó Fátharta The Social Welfare appeals system, which can force people to battle for years for emergency payments, needs to be radically overhauled, it has been claimed. Last year, the average time to process appeals by the Appeals Office was more than 32…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Upper age limit for jury service to be abolished
Original Source by Elaine Edwards The Government has been urged to remove all discriminatory elements of the law governing who can serve on a jury after it announced that the upper age limit for jury service will be abolished. The decision was announced on Tuesday…
Author: The Irish Times
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Improving access to justice through Public Interest Law Alliance
By Larry Donnelly. “PUBLIC INTEREST law . . . what’s that, an oxymoron?” So remarked broadcaster and Irish Times columnist Vincent Browne at a Dublin conference held by the Public Interest Law Alliance (Pila) last April. We in Pila, and in our parent organisation the…
Author: Irish Times
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Law Centre for Children to Open in Ireland
By Noeline Blackwell (FLAC/PILA) Earlier this year a steering committee secured funding to establish a law centre for children in Ireland and to fund its operation for its first two years. There are similar law centres around the world – and as close to home as…
Author: Irish Times
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2,200 people forced to wait for free legal aid
FLAC is an Atlantic grantee. Figures from the Legal Aid Board released to the Irish Examiner show, in some parts of the country, people are waiting for six months or more. While numbers and waiting lists varied from centre to centre, black spots included Galway,…
Author: Irish Examiner