Sentences with phrase «equal justice report»

There are many excellent recommendations in the CBA's Reaching Equal Justice report.

In December 2013, the Canadian Bar Association's Equal Justice report proposed that three Canadian law schools establish such centres by 2030.

The CBA's Equal Justice report laments the scarcity of data on the impacts of law on the public, and lauds the CFCJ effots to collect this data.

For example, the CBA's Reaching Equal Justice report stated that «Canada is plagued by a paucity of access to justice research» [3], and noted that «we still know relatively little about what works to increase access to justice and how and why it does.»

The CBA issued its Equal Justice report in 2013, and the National Action Committee issued its report the same year.

The Equal Justice Report calls for a substantial experiential learning experience to be mandatory for all law students by 2030.

U of O has, probably more so than other Ontario law schools, a social justice / access to justice bent and I have been critical of the CBA's recent Reaching Equal Justice Report mostly because it is unrealistic and provides little hope for change.

«Alex» is several avatars representing composites of people with limited or uncertain access to the justice system that the Access to Justice Committee met in the course of preparing its Reaching Equal Justice report.

The CBA's Equal Justice Report The Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice Committee issued its final report in December, entitled Equal Justice: Balancing the Scales (disclaimer — I am a member of the committee).

Not exact matches

(4) The independent panel shall report as approved for each judicial position all highly qualified persons who make application to the panel, provided that if the number of highly qualified applicants exceeds three times the number of existing vacancies to be filled in such position (determined as of the time the panel renders its report), the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position, provided further that if the number of highly qualified applicants is less than three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to not less than two times the number of such vacancies, provided further that the following categories of applicants who are eligible for reelection or reappointment shall be reported as approved if their performance during their term of office merits continuation in office, and no other applicants shall be reported as approved for their vacancies: (a) a judge or justice completing a full term of office seeking re-election to that office, or (b) an interim Supreme Court justice who has been appointed by the Governor to fill an existing vacancy no later than the previous June 1 after approval of the Governor's screening panel, who has been confirmed by the State Senate and has assumed office no later than the date the panel renders its report, and who otherwise would not be required to make application to the independent screening panel pursuant to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3).

Variety reports that the film will tell the story of Ginsburg, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton, becoming only the second female justice, and would face numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights throughout her career.

The «reaching equal justice» report, whatever else it is, is not a response to a crisis.

In my last column, I focused on the Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice report released in December, entitled Equal Justice: Balancing the Scales (disclaimer — I am a member of the committee).

For people living on low income, ABSs may have little to offer, both because lack of money will still be a barrier and because there is more to taking advantage of legal services than just money (a point recognized by the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice project and report).

In particular, we have the benefit of the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Summit and report and the final report of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family matters.

(6) Canadian Bar Association, «Reaching equal justice: an invitation to envision and act» - A summary report by the CBA Access to Justice Committee, August 2013; ojustice: an invitation to envision and act» - A summary report by the CBA Access to Justice Committee, August 2013; oJustice Committee, August 2013; online:.

I am very proud to report that I have been nominated for election as vice president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the state's premiere legal charity devoted to ensuring equal access to the legal system and to improving the administration of justice.

The report, «Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice,» released today by the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, finds that 40 years after the landmark -LSB-...]

Note an innovative approach in Canada: the Canadian Bar Association recently issued a report Reaching Equal Justice which is not only visionary in terms of content, but also in terms of process.

Since this hegemony has declined in the Internet's wake, the justice system, in upholding section 2 (b), is correspondingly compelled to accommodate a world in which everyone has an equal ability to report from the courts.

The final report from the Envisioning Equal Justice initiative has just been released.

In February 2014, we released a report entitled: «Putting justice back on the map: The route to equal and accessible family justice.»

Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justicejustice.

The Equal Justice Initiative's report contains a number of recommendations that call on each of us to look for ways to embrace the full potential of innovation to improve access.

[ix] See the CBA's, Equal Justice, Balancing the Scales, November 2013, at page 53, «Return on Investment for Legal Aid Spending»; and its Special Committee Report, Crystal Clear, Strategic Directions for the CBA, August 2006, at pages 28 and 52.

Also, advertising should pay for it and the Reports should be made freely available to the public in PDF form in order to increase equal access to Justice.

And finally, we are pleased to report that LFW's Campaign for Equal Justice has raised $ 609,000 toward its $ 1.4 million goal for 2017.

The Commission's summary of the issues raised in the hearings and its recommendations are presented in its report, The State of Equal Justice in Wisconsin.

The ACLCO is pleased to share its Annual Report, «Together Making the Equal Rights Dream a Reality» intended to showcase the fine work done in our community legal clinics for audiences such as local communities, community partners, funders, government and the broader justice sector.

The CBA called for innovation as a means to increase access to justice in its report Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision ajustice in its report Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision aJustice: An Invitation to Envision and Act.

We are thrilled to see our input reflected in the Inquiry Committee's final report, which clearly affirms women's right to a fair and equal justice system and leaves no doubt that sexist remarks and victim - blaming from the bench are unacceptable:

The new A2JCC committee will also consider the Canadian Bar Association's report, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act, released in November.

To provide context for the discussion, students were asked to read a paper by John H. Langbein on the historical foundation of the law of evidence, as well as the recent Canadian Bar Association report, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation To Envision And Act.

There are mild currents of this perspective in the Canadian Bar Association Access to Justice Committee's recent summary report entitled, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and to Act.

Last August I mentioned the CBA's summary report on access to justice, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision ajustice, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision aJustice: An Invitation to Envision and Act.

The debate over access to justice isn't only on the agenda here in Canada (see the recent Slaw.ca posts entitled CBA's Map to Equal Justice and CBA Access to Justice Report Is More Pie - in - the justice isn't only on the agenda here in Canada (see the recent Slaw.ca posts entitled CBA's Map to Equal Justice and CBA Access to Justice Report Is More Pie - in - the Justice and CBA Access to Justice Report Is More Pie - in - the Justice Report Is More Pie - in - the - Sky).

Quoted in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner 2006, Social Justice Report 2006, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney.

Under section 46C of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (HREOCA) the Commission, through the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, is required to report on, and generally to promote, «the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders».

5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2001, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2002.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2007, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2007), p 263.

Einfield, Hon. Justice Marcus, Killen, Hon. Sir James & Mundine, Kaye, The Toomelah Report, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, June 1988.

It was also recommended as a model to halt high recidivism rates for Aboriginal women in Unfinished Business, the 2013 Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (VHREOC) report on Koori women and the justice system.

See further Social justice report 1999, op.cit, Chapter 2, and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3.

I helped draft Reaching Equal Justice released by the CBA in 2013 and continue to participate in national working groups aiming to achieve the access to justice goals set out in the Justice released by the CBA in 2013 and continue to participate in national working groups aiming to achieve the access to justice goals set out in the justice goals set out in the report.

[15] See W Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2002, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2003), ch 4.

Social Justice Report 2000: Appendix 1 Information concerning Australia provided by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to United Nations Committees in 2000.

48 For a commentary on these provisions see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 1999, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2000, pp89 - 97.

160 This issue was addressed in some detail in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2001, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2002, pp67 - 72.

55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2000, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney 2001, pp 7 - 15.

For discussion on the government's response to the CERD decision see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2000, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001, pp79 - 83; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2000, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001, pp26 - 27.