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Legal advice is a professional service that solicitors can and do charge for. There are five main ways of funding legal advice and services. They are: Traditional fee arrangements Conditional fee arrangements Insurance funded Union funded Legal Aid Free advice services e.g. Citizens Advice Bureau A traditional fee arrangement is on where you would typically [...]
The legal aid argument has extended, in Northern Ireland, to include new proposals to recover monies in criminal cases in the case of a guilty finding. Legal Aid is the system which allows people to have their legal fees paid from a central fund and effectively allow them to get free legal advice and representation. [...]
The Catholic Church has paid compensation to three men, who are brothers, as a result of sexual abuse inflicted on them by a priest in the 1970’s. The victims were, at the time of the offences, in the care of a children’s home in Newcastle. The priest, Bernard Traynor, was a trainee priest and made [...]
