Sentences with phrase «as the access to justice crisis»

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I think a key problem at the root of the articling crisis and ongoing access to justice concerns is that law school, as wonderful as it is (I loved it), simply does not adequately train students with skills that can be applied in a constructive way to benefit clients.

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As many judges and now the Governor General have reminded us, we have an Access to Justice crisis which is a demand side problem.

And that will help resolve the national shame that is referred to as the «access to justice crisis.»

Many access to justice efforts focus on crisis moments — serving an individual at a pressure point in their life such as eviction or deportation.

Why should a licensing candidate being paid pennies serving low - income clients suffering from the access to justice crisis have to pay the same as those articling on Bay St. earning + $ 60k a year?

In an initiative the Law Society of Upper Canada's outgoing treasurer is touting as his legacy, the regulator brought some 100 members of the justice sector under the same roof for the first time this week to put their heads together on the access to justice crisis.

If we can (1) ramp up the pace and (2) do this really well, the difference we would make to the access to justice crisis — especially if we also pay attention to the role of the non-lawyer «intermediaries «as Professor Friedland and others have emphasized — would be enormous.

But, in our current crisis of access to justice, these changes are exactly what we should be considering, or, in the case of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, working to implement as soon as possible.

Here are a few back - of - the - envelope calculations to try to convey just how unrealistic it is for lawyers to focus only on legal aid / public funding and pro bono as a solution to the access to justice crisis.

Recent Canadian studies on access to justice describe it as being in a state of crisis.

The inability of the vast majority of individuals and small businesses to secure legal representation due to lack of access and high cost is an acute problem often referred to as «the access to justice crisis.»

The legal industry has some «wicked» problems to confront: the access to justice crisis, creating meaningful guardrails for social media and its potential to obliterate fact from misinformation, protecting democracy, and training future lawyers — as well as legal service providers — to ensure they have the competencies, experience, and tools necessary to tackle these challenges.

Law is increasingly not getting the job done, let alone addressing the long - term crisis in access to justice and modern challenges such as automation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate change, and safety and fairness in global supply chains.»

Doing things as we have always done them has created a crisis of access to justice (or inaccessibility of justice).

Indeed, changing legal education — competencies required from Law Societies, the articling process changing in Ontario, and the access to justice crisis, as well as internal pressures coming from students interested in experiential opportunities and faculty - based self - critiques of traditional pedagogies within legal education have led to may changes within legal education.

Across the board, there was concurrence that there is a crisis of legal affordability and that unbundled legal services are needed as one way to address a lack of access to justice and lack of access to legal services.

Whether this ethical duty becomes a formal obligation may well depend on the profession's response to the growing access to justice problem that is already widely seen as a crisis.

The dramatic increase in self - represented litigants in the courts is ordinarily taken as a sign of the crisis in access to justice.

The state of access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their over-representation in the criminal justice system is a national crisis, as is violence against Indigenous women and children.