FLAC News 26 (1) Jan-Apr 2016
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Summary
In this issue:
- Time to repair austerity damage to civil legal aid scheme: Accessing Justice in Hard Times report launched
- DIT collaboration yields impressive legal research from students
- In the Shadow of O’Casey: First FLAC fundraiser for new HQ in honour of literary and social giant
- Repossession: Borrowers urgently need support to stay in homes
- New guides promote access to justice at international level
- ECRI calls for social welfare appeals decisions to be published
- PILA update:
- Prohibition of Third Party Funding:Chilling effect on Public Interest Litigation?
- PILA Seminar: Public Interest Litigation and the Costs Barrier
- Frontline issues dominate session on civil legal aid
- Subsidiary Protection applicants must be placed in effective position
- Legal changes ahead following Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015
- FLAC policy round-up
- FLAC Volunteers page
- Focus on FLAC:
- Claire Macken, Executive Officer
- A fond farewell to Noeline
- Legal Aid in Ireland – a tale of two systems
- Balkan lawyers visit FLAC