Updates
on Planning Initiative
***DRAFT
PLANNING REPORT***
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Comments will be taken on the Draft Planning Report through September 21, 2007
Message
from Chairperson Colleen Khoury
Appendix A - Supporting Documents
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Appendix B - Homelessness Crisis Intervention Model
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Version - Appendix B - Homelessness Crisis Intervention Model
Appendix
C - Quality Assurance Template
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Messages
from Chairperson Colleen Khoury
June
21, 2006 Letter to MSBA
August 11, 2006 Update to Work Group Members
November 14, 2006 Update to Work Group Members
Annual Letter
May
5, 2007 Update to Work Group Members Regarding Work Group Final Reports
JAG
Statewide Planning Initiative Work Group Final Reports - 5-5-07
Other
News
In
Historic Resolution, the American Bar Association Calls for a Right to Counsel
in Civil Cases
On August 3, 2006, the
House of Delegates of the American Bar Association unanimously approved a
resolution urging the government at the federal, state, and territorial levels
to assure that poor people have a right to legal counsel in civil cases where
basic human needs are at stake. Such cases, the resolution says, may
include those that deal with shelter, sustenance, safety, health, or child
custody. Michael S. Greco, the president of the
ABA, says, “This is historic in the
realm of an extraordinarily meaningful action by the
ABA
.” Greco and other
proponents of the recommendation compared the recommendation’s potential
impact to the 1963 ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright in which the Supreme
Court declared that individuals are entitled to counsel in criminal cases.
Laura Abel, Deputy Director of the Poverty Program at the
Brennan
Center
for Justice, applauded the
resolution, saying, "The ABA has taken a huge step towards ensuring that
low-income people have meaningful access to our justice system." In
partnership with clients and communities across the country, advocates intend
to urge legislatures and courts to recognize the right to counsel in certain
categories of cases and to make funding available to finance the right.
James Podgers, A Civil Law Gideon: ABA House of
Delegates Calls on Government to Recognize Right to Legal Counsel in Key Civil
Cases, ABA Journal Annual Meeting Daily Report, Aug. 8, 2006; also base on
original reporting by Brennan Center staff. (Brennan
Center
for Justice at
NYU
School
of Law)
ABA House of Delegates Unanimously Passes Trio of Civil Legal Aid Resolutions - NLADA Update 8-28-06, VOL. 8 No 13
Law
Day 2007 Columns
Jon
D. Levy, Law Day 2007: Looking back in 50 years, Portland Press Herald,
May 1, 2007
M.
Calien Lewis, M. Calien Lewis: 50 years on, reflections on Law Day, Bangor
Daily News, May 1, 2007
Law
Day 2006 Columns
A
vision for a better civil justice system, Calien Lewis, Lewiston
Sun Journal,
April
30, 2006
Justice:
legal services for all, Thomas Harnett, Times
Record,
May
4, 2006
Law
Day, 2006: Does Maine provide
justice for all?, Associate Justice Howard Dana, Kennebec
Journal, May 1, 2006
Low-income
Mainers still need help with legal services, Judge Kermit Lipez, Maine
Sunday Telegram,
April
30, 2006
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