Sentences with phrase «justice committee recommending»

With the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee recommending a «wholesale review» of Scots family law this year, I would suggest that this opportunity is used to encourage a greater use of mediation and to raise awareness of the benefits of choosing to settle disputes out of court.

With the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee recommending a «wholesale review» of Scots family law this year, I would suggest that this opportunity is used to encourage a greater use of mediation and to raise awareness of the benefits of choosing to settle...

Not exact matches

On 16th October 1988, the Federal Minister for Justice announced the establishment of a National Committee on Violence, a joint Commonwealth - State initiative with a wide - ranging brief «to inquire into and report on violent crime and violence generally in Australian society (and) recommend preventive strategies.»

The Parliamentary Justice Committee had recommended special consideration for pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims in 2016 but as no government action followed, the trade union Unison took the issue to court.

The resolution, created by 23 council members including all five committee members, strongly recommends that the Legislature pass the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act.

Duncan was recommended by the New Scotland and Bethlehem Democratic committees to fill the vacant seat after Michael Mackey was elected a state Supreme Court justice last November.

The committee recommended that states — with assistance from relevant federal agencies, particularly the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — provide universal access to evidence - based treatment for opioid use disorder in a variety of settings, including hospitals, criminal justice settings, and substance - use treatment programs.

Recommendation 3: The Committee recommends that the Government of Canada provide leadership and invest resources in collaborating with provincial and territorial governments in order to develop and make available research on best practices and implementation procedures for mega-trials and for alternatives to the traditional criminal justice system model, including restorative justice programs, integrated service models, «shadow courts» and therapeutic courts.

(4) Reports, dated May 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, recommending that legal services be provided by non-lawyer professionals who provide related services: Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group; and, Report of the Court Processes Simplification Working Group.

Instead, sources say that a forthcoming Justice Department investigative report is likely to recommend referral of both lawyers to state ethics committees.

The final report of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters recommends an Early Resolution Services Sector (ERSS) that embodies this idea.

The Justice Committee report recommended major changes to the funding of civil legal aid from the federal government to the provinces.

... A five - person inquiry committee, which likely won't proceed before next fall, will be empowered to recommend Justice Matlow's removal to the full Council if it concludes he is no longer fit for the Bench.

In December 2015, a committee that reviewed the civil courts structure in the UK issued a report, written by its chair Lord Justice Briggs, judge of the Court of Appeal and deputy head of Civil Justice, recommending the formation of The Online Court, as I wrote about in more detail here.

So I need something more concrete from you — I need you to crystallize / ground this «overhaul» of yours with one or two specific steps which you (or this LSUC Committee) would recommend toward improving litigation and access to justice in the Ontario personal injury context.

I see from one of Mike Cernovich's posts that more than 100 law professors have recommended a proposed list of questions to the Senate Judiciary Committee charged with interviewing President Bush's nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

For immediate release — November 30, 2016 VANCOUVER — Today, the committee of the Canadian Judicial Council that inquired into Justice Robin Camp's conduct during a sexual assault trial unanimously recommended his removal from the bench.

First, the 2012 report of the Family Justice Working Group (PDF) of the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, recommended that each jurisdiction establish its own unified family court with:

The Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee welcomed the proposal to establish a specialist personal injury court but raised their concerns regarding the capacity of the new specialist court, recommending it be established before the new level of privative jurisdiction is introduced.

Given the important purpose of the judicial discipline process, the critical role of integrity in ensuring public confidence in the judiciary, and the need to ensure fairness to Justice Girouard, the Ministers agree that the best course of action is to jointly request, pursuant to s. 63 (1) of the Judges Act, that an inquiry be held into the findings of the majority of the Inquiry Committee that prompted it to recommend his removal.»

(7) The committee shall make a report to the Chief Justice, recommending a disposition in accordance with subsection (8).

The aim of the NWT Access to Justice Committee («Committee») is to identify the barriers that impede access and to recommend firm responses to address them.

I was recently appointed to chair the Innovation Committee of the Oregon Bar, and our charge is to recommend ways to address the Access to Justice problem in our state (and, by extension, our country).

Just this morning, the committee of the Canadian Judicial Council that inquired into Justice Robin Camp's conduct during a sexual assault trial unanimously recommended his removal from the bench.

The one - case - one - judge court model was considered and strongly recommended in the final report of the Family Justice Working Group, one of four working groups of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

A committee looking into the conduct of Quebec Superior Court Justice Michel Girouard has recommended he be removed from the bench.

On Nov. 19 the CJC announced that a three - member inquiry committee, with one member dissenting, had recommended the removal of Justice Michel Girouard, even though the committee «could not conclude that the judge had participated in a transaction involving an illicit substance.»

Interestingly, however, the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee in its report Family Justice: the Operation of the Family Courts Revisited found no widespread crisis of confidence in the family courts but still recommended making family proceedings more open.

Rep. Mark Gundrum, Republican chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Judiciary Committee, impaneled a bipartisan task force to recommend improvements to the state's criminal justice system aimed at decreasing the likelihood of future wrongful convictions.

In July last year, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology constituted a committee under retired Supreme Court judge Justice BN Srikrishna to identify key data protection issues in India and recommend methods of addressing them.

Since the first decision of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 1999 that the amended Native Title Act is inconsistent with Australia's obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 182 Social Justice Commissioners have repeatedly recommended legislative reform to make the NTA consistent with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and other human rights of Indigenous Australians.

The committee recommends that the Department of Health prepare a communication plan for those working in areas such as the criminal justice field, to accompany the release of the National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Diagnostic Tool.

The committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government, prior to the next Council of Australian Governments meeting, explicitly state the measures it is putting in place to assist states and territories to develop, implement and meet Indigenous justice targets.

The committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government contribute to the development of justice reinvestment trials at sites in each state and territory.

That Steering Committee was tasked with recommending a new policy framework for native title and land justice.

In its 2003 inquiry into progress towards reconciliation, the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee recommended «that the Government should be required by statute to respond to the reports of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner».

A blue ribbon committee that included Supreme Court of Canada Justice Cromwell recommended such consensual parental decisions.

[18] This has also been recommended by: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2008 (2008), ch 4; the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant, Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Australia, UN Doc.

The Campaign Steering Committee also recommends that the Closing the Gap Strategy is enhanced by the development of targets to reduce rates of imprisonment and violence and that achieving the targets is funded by a justice reinvestment approach.