Sentences with phrase «justice gap report»

The 2017 Justice Gap Report of the Legal Services Corp. found that 86 percent of the civil legal problems reported by low - income Americans received inadequate or no legal help.

The 2017 Justice Gap Report from LSC found that «86 percent of the civil legal problems reported by low - income Americans received inadequate or no legal help.»

Not exact matches

Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary will be joined by Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network and author of the TUC report, «The Missing Billions * The UK Tax Gap» as well as, Simon McRae from War on Want.

Students review the US Department of Justice report, revisit how confirmation bias impacts our understanding of events, and consider how to bridge the gap in understanding that often surrounds events like Ferguson.

IPCC reports can not be expected to be exhaustive on these matters and therefore gaps and omissions in the IPCC reports in regard to ethics and justice issues relevant to policy - making is not necessarily a criticism of IPCC and is here pointed out only for future consideration.

If this interests you, check out my report in the latest issue of the ABA Journal that explores this phenomenon in depth: Washington state moves around UPL, using legal technicians to help close the justice gap.

The case, brought by the charity Rights of Women, was widely reported by the BBC, the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Justice Gap among others.

YLAL's response to the report was published by HuffPost UK and the Justice Gap.

The justice gap in Oregon, according to the report, has become worse over the last decade.

The Court of Appeal judgment — which overturned an earlier Administrative Court judgment — is available here and was reported on for the Justice Gap by YLAL co-chair Ollie.

But the report contains no allusion that, alone, they will be sufficient to close Arkansas's access to justice gap.

A well - known advocate for justice, he is also the author of «Closing the gap: Policing and the community,» the report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia.

to B., Legal Education and Professional Development — An Educational Continuum, Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap (ABA 1992); William H. Simon, The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers» Ethics (Harv.

These studies report on existing legal services, populations needing legal services, the unique challenges and opportunities for legal aid in Montana, and the gaps and barriers to justice that exist in our state and nationwide.

The 2009 and 2014 reports explore the gaps and barriers to justice for low and moderate income families.

YLAL co-chair Ollie wrote this article for The Justice Gap about the Bach Commission's interim report (also published on HuffPost UK and Legal Voice), and there was coverage in The Independent, The Guardian and Solicitors Journal.

The recently released report from the Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans, includes notable findings regarding the legal needs of veterans.

The Legal Services Corporation's 2013 Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice powerfully made the case for technology as an essential tool for narrowing the justiJustice powerfully made the case for technology as an essential tool for narrowing the justicejustice gap.

The Court of Appeal judgment — which overturned an earlier Administrative Court judgment — is available here and was reported on for the Justice Gap by Ollie.

Contrast what the Supreme Court of Texas presumably learned back in June, 2017 from a report by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), «The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans.»

YLAL member Henry Gaster - Evans provided this report, and our co-chair Ollie wrote about the event for The Justice Gap here.

Some families of the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings were granted legal aid for the re-opened inquests, as reported by the BBC, and former Court of Appeal judge Henry Brooke argued in the Justice Gap, that the «Birmingham 21» families deserve nothing less than full Hillsborough - style representation.

The most recent Legal Services Corporation report, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans, found that not only do low - income American citizens receive inadequate or no legal help for 86 % of their civil legal problems but over 71 % of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past year.

Notably, the Legal Services Corporation recently issued a report entitled The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans.

In 2016, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services released its Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States (available here), recommending the use of checkups as a way to close the access to justice gap.

An accompanying article dealt with the «justice gap» between reported rapes and convictions and there followed the next day in the same newspaper a further account of the reasons for the very low prosecution rate, featuring comments by the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Sir Ken Macdonald, and the solicitor general, Vera Baird, among others, in which they attributed it in part to police and prosecutorial under - performance.

Speaker John Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation, will unpack the data from LSC's 2017 report: The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans.

«I urge all governments to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their organisations in realising the report's recommendations, particularly in developing justice targets, within the Federal government's Closing the Gap Refresh process.

Croakey reported on the omission of justice targets from the Closing the Gap framework for improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing — a move that has been roundly criticised.

The Federal Government has yet to make a commitment on Justice Reinvestment or to introduce a justice target, as it has been long urged by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, as part of its Closing the Gap strategy in response to yet another year's poor report card, It has rather instructed the Australian Law Reform Commission to conduct an inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — which will report at the end of thiJustice Reinvestment or to introduce a justice target, as it has been long urged by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, as part of its Closing the Gap strategy in response to yet another year's poor report card, It has rather instructed the Australian Law Reform Commission to conduct an inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — which will report at the end of thijustice target, as it has been long urged by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, as part of its Closing the Gap strategy in response to yet another year's poor report card, It has rather instructed the Australian Law Reform Commission to conduct an inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — which will report at the end of this year.

In his Social Justice and Native Title Report 2015, tabled this week in Federal Parliament, Gooda says Closing the Gap agreements should include targets on both child welfare and disability.

Closing the justice gap would save the economy an estimated $ 18.9 billion per year in 2040, according to the report, which called for establishment of a fund for community - based early intervention, prevention and diversion programs.

As I detail in Chapter 5 of this Social Justice Report, one of the most notable advances has been the government's commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous health inequality.

However, in the Social Justice Report 2006 I identified that an «information gap» exists in Australia that inhibits the use of a human rights framework by many Indigenous peoples and other civil society groups.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar told ABC radio that she had «mixed emotions» about the 2018 report, acknowledging disappointment and frustration but wanting to be hopeful in response to some progress, and the potential of the Closing the Gap refresh, which won't report until October this year.

In the Social Justice Report 2005, I called for a national effort to close the gap in health inequality within a generation.

We also began the development of what would become the Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to further one of the Social Justice Report 2005 recommendations - that Australian governments utilise targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight to the Indigenous health equality gap, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equaliGap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to further one of the Social Justice Report 2005 recommendations - that Australian governments utilise targets and benchmarks to not only provide an end in sight to the Indigenous health equality gap, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equaligap, but also to ensure accountability for achieving the goal of health equality.

Chapter 5 - Progress towards achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation — an update on efforts to «Close the Gap»: Social Justice Report 2008

[4] From the initial drafting of the Social Justice Report 2005 and inception of the Close the Gap campaign, Christopher Holland and Darren Dick of the Australian Human Rights Commission have acted as the Secretariat for the Close the Gap process, with the Social Justice Commissioner chairing and leading the committee process.

It was my Social Justice Report in 2005 that called for the gap in Indigenous health equality to be closed, challenging governments to commit to closing the life expectancy gap in one generation.