{"id":2909,"date":"2013-05-22T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2017-07-31T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:52:46","slug":"attorneys-give-free-legal-advice-to-deserving-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/attorneys-give-free-legal-advice-to-deserving-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTORNEYS GIVE FREE LEGAL ADVICE TO DESERVING PERSONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]As part of its Inaugural Law Week observance, the Anguilla Bar Association gave members of the public an opportunity to receive free legal advice on Wednesday, May 22, dubbed Access to Justice\/Pro Bono Day. The service, from 9 am \u2013 4 pm, was provided at St. Gerard\u2019s Conference Centre by Attorneys representing several law firms.<\/p>\n<p>Bar Association President, Ms. Yvette Wallace, spoke to The Anguillian about the event. \u201cThe purpose of Pro Bono Day is for the Bar Association to provide structured time for consultation specifically to those who need it most, but are unable to pay for getting advice from Attorneys,\u201d she explained. \u201cThis is particularly important at this time bearing in mind the economic situation that most people are enduring. We thought it was appropriate that we, as a group, provide some form of structured system whereby deserving persons can consult us as to whether we would takeon their matters or merely stop at giving them advice. The Attorneys are giving their time free of cost today.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2910&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Ms Wallace further explained that the Attorneys would look at the intake of matters for the day and determine what deserving issues they might wish to take on and bring to a logical conclusion. \u201cWe are looking overall at what we call a system \u2013 not strictly speaking legal aid \u2013 whereby the lawyers can give back to our community for persons who are unable to pay the current fees,\u201d she stated. \u201cThat is part of what we, as a Bar Association, will advance. We are clearly doing a business, and therefore not everybody who wants free legal services will be able to obtain such. This is just the start. Hopefully, we will continue to have this particularly each year and, as a long-term process, the Bar is coming up with a policy to deal with matters of this nature going forward.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]As part of its Inaugural Law Week observance, the Anguilla Bar Association gave members of the public an opportunity to receive free legal advice on<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anguillabar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}