Another Third Circuit panel last week slapped the government for arguing that the court had no jurisdiction to consider the case of an impoverished legal immigrant who had been ordered deported without being told of the availability of free legal help, contrary to court rules.
Pressure to reform the criminal courts charge, which was introduced earlier this year, has increased as more cases emerge of impoverished people being forced to pay hundreds of pounds for minor offences – in addition to any fines.
By Anthony Lewis The New Yorker, May 9 , 1964P. 150 ANNALS OF LAW about the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, an impoverished Florida convict, who was tried and convicted of felony, in 1961, and denied counsel by the presiding judge.
Now there is no doubt that Nike has wrung billions and billions of dollars from the toil and the sweat and in some cases the physical abuse of impoverished workers -- mostly women -- in places like China and Vietnam and Indonesia.
The nonprofit Education Law Center brought the case in 1981 on behalf of impoverished urban children trapped in decrepit schools.
ANNALS OF LAW about the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, an impoverished Florida convict, who was tried and convicted of felony, in 1961, and denied counsel by the presiding judge.
Although not a true vaccine, the World Health Organization uses the term "preventive chemotherapy" to describe this approach because when used over a period of time, together with other supportive measures, it is actually leading to the elimination of lymphatic filariasis and trachoma, and in some cases even river blindness in dozens of impoverished countries.
It challenged a deeply held principle that "debts must always be repaid" by showing how, in the case of many debts owed by impoverished countries, the consequences of repayments were creating nearly unimaginable suffering.
While the two rights are not mutually exclusive, they can be in immediate conflict as in the case of expensive life saving HIV/AIDS drugs and millions of impoverished AIDS patients around the world.
That program recounted the case of an elderly prison inmate, Clarence Earl Gideon, and the ultimately successful struggle to have the United States Supreme Court establish the right of impoverished defendants to legal counsel.
