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Schedules A–J — July 2016 1 Criminal legal aid fee schedules – 4 July 2016 Schedules A, B & C: Police Prosecutions Police Prosecutions Administration/Case Review A B C Tasks covered by fixed fee Preliminary work - new legal aid grant $155 For: taking instructions, attending client receiving, reviewing and/or preparing disclosure identifying legal and factual issues undertaking research reviewing evidence (including video...
...The complainant engaged the adviser to assist with an appeal to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal. [2] The grounds of complaint are in essence that the adviser: [2.1] Failed to undertake the compulsory steps for client engagement, but took fees; [2.2] Did not carry out the work she agreed to perform; and [2.3] Failed to refund the fees she had not earned. [3] The adviser has not challenged the statement of complaint, which set out these grounds of complaint. The Tribunal’s...
...provided. (d) Failed to act in a respectful manner. (e) Failed to provide information about the progress of the case. (f) Failed to provide information as to how to pursue a complaint. (g) Failed to communicate effectively. (h) Charged unreasonable fees for services provided. 3 (i) Contributed, through his oversight, to the administrative error which led directly to Mrs ZA’s application for permanent residence being declined. [13] In response, Mr GL submitted that: (a)...
...disregard of those provisions. [10] We noted that the error was only exposed when the client, Ms H, queried the lack of progress in the proceedings. Ms H had phoned the Court and discovered to her dismay that the proceedings had never been filed and it was later confirmed that no filing fee had been paid. In these circumstances, the practitioner’s wrongful retention could have continued indefinitely even beyond the somewhat inexplicable period of seven months in which it rema...
...for costs on his defence of the protection order application. [7] I mention these matters because they indicate the intensive subjectivity of the applicant’s emotional response to the circumstances and because of their potential relevance to the fees complaint traversed later in this decision and the expansion of the applicant’s complaint on review also discussed later. [8] The firm issued a letter of engagement dated 4 August 2022 regarding the specific matter. The letter inclu...
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...application had been declined. [8] Ms AM says that she supervised the lawyers in the firm who attended to Mr AN’s instructions,7 2 Email AN to NZLS (2 December 2011). that the fees were a reasonable reflection of the amount of work done for Mr AN under urgency. AO’s position is that Mr AN was told what the work would cost 3 Email AN to NZLS (31 October 2011). 4 Letter AO to NZLS (16 November 2011). 5Letters...
...that: (a) the firm had been conflicted when taking instructions from her; and (b) advice provided by the lawyers had been “poor and inadequate”; and (c) initial advice provided to the effect that a privacy waiver should be executed and her file obtained from the employer before determining further steps was inadequate; and (d) conventional practice would have been to immediately file a personal grievance; and 1 Referenced in this decision as “the firm”. Mr HJ and Ms NB w...
...for spousal maintenance. [3] Ms QW delegated a considerable amount of the work involved in preparing the maintenance application to Ms GL. [4] Ms XZ was unhappy with the representation she received from both lawyers. She had concerns about the fees charged, and the quality of the advice provided 2 [5] She filed complaints with the Lawyers Complaints Service about both practitioners. The complaint and the Standards Committee decision [6] Ms XZ lodged a complaint in respect to M...
The Legal Services Commissioner’s decision and response to the review of the criminal fixed fees is now published. The review aimed to gather information on how the fees are working in practice and to identify any issues or gaps in the schedules. Increases in Government funding to enable the Legal Services Commissioner to revise the criminal legal aid fees will be staged over three years from 2016 to 2018. Three new separate criminal legal aid fee schedules have been developed for each financi...