Sentences with phrase «traditional legal systems»

Prof. Singer joined the University of Alabama Law School in 1971 and in 1975 received the SJD from Harvard, with an anthropological / legal dissertation on traditional legal systems in Ethiopia.

I recently heard a respected lawyer comment that if the legal profession allows disputes to be resolved outside of traditional legal systems, then we can not ensure that proper attention will be paid to basic legal principles of fairness, justice and the rule of law.

Traditional legal systems, she argues, are not keeping pace.

I just don't feel you can have a quasi-legal system operating alongside our own historic and traditional legal system, particularly one which discriminates against women and is causing many women real suffering.

Many non-governmental organisations here and abroad have realized the overwhelming inefficiency of the existing traditional legal system in the countries in which they are based.

Usually, they have no choice but to try the traditional legal system; finding an attorney they aren't sure they can trust, hiring them for a hefty fee and fretting through the entire process.

The traditional legal system is adversarial, pitting two people against each other.

As we know, the traditional legal system is broken.

In addition, mediation was viewed as more empowering and more likely to result in better adjustment of adults and children to the divorce than was likely to occur in the traditional legal system.

As a founder of our local collaborative practice group and a matrimonial attorney since the early 1980's, I regard collaborative practice as the answer to my dreams of a better way for handling matrimonial cases, and also a tacit acknowledgement that our traditional legal system has left much to be desired in the way of accommodating the real world of emotions and personal needs of divorcing people.

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We are no longer limited by the geographical boundaries that once existed and the other traditional advantages of operating in Australia such as having a safe economy and good legal system continue to be eroded as other countries increase their own standards in these areas or ours begins to deteriorate.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

It is certainly possible to argue that the traditional process leading up to canonisation — essentially a prolonged legal process which could and often did take centuries to complete — was in some ways superior to the more streamlined system now in use.

By allowing our political support for Haiti's President - for - Life Jean - Claude Duvalier to dictate U.S. immigration policy, we withdraw our traditional welcome for refugees and jeopardize the legal system which protects all of us.

He decried the disregard for the traditional institution and the failure of the legal system over the years, saying that the situation had encouraged impunity, religious intolerance and massive abuse of drugs leading to insecurity in many parts of the country.

As you well know, the court system is not our traditional means of resolving disputes in Africa; it is arbitration and it is recognised even in our legal system.

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3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

Critics see schools that don't have the same legal obligation as the traditional school system to serve all students.

While this is a step in the right direction, there is great reluctance on behalf of law students, as well as present and future legal professionals on whether this alternate route to articling will create a two - tier system; where those who choose the LPP route are assumed to have failed at attaining articles the traditional way and those who do it, do so out of necessity.

The move also suggests that if «traditional» law firms don't accelerate their adoption of AI systems, such as document review in this case, then other providers already skilled in project management and process level work will deliver AI - augmented legal services to corporates instead.

They expect to find similar transformation in their legal services and are no longer willing to fund traditional delivery models.,» said Sherry Askin, President of OMNI Software Systems.

This one - tier partnership and «up - or - out» system began eroding in the 1980s as the increasingly competitive legal marketplace required new approaches to the traditional partnership system.

Women's ability to access the justice system is limited by legal costs, traditional justice systems, illiteracy and ignorance of rights.»

Incorporation of foreign and international rules and principles will require skills of synthesis and distinguishing that are distinct from traditional domestic legal reasoning, and they may require appreciation of important differences in foreign / international legal, political, or perhaps even cultural context.63 International legal rules often play a complex role in domestic law, presenting issues of interpretation and enforceability that do not easily fit within traditional domestic United States legislative, administrative, and judicial legal structures.64 Integration or application of rules from foreign nations may be even more complex, especially where those systems are substantially different from our own.65 Additionally, there may be discrepancies between the form and function of foreign or international law that affect their proper application.

There is an opt - out provision which theoretically allows a dissatisfied claimant to seek legal redress in the traditional court system, instead of Vaccine Court, but it is used infrequently.

But changes in consumer technology adoption, business technology systems, legal industry demographics, consumer demographics, and the underlying global economy will, in the next 10 years, disrupt even the most «traditional» law firms.

«Not only do we provide traditional legal assistance, we have developed cutting - edge systems that allow you to order legal documents or source other legal solutions for your business.

For First Nations that have not signed treaties, the definition of traditional territory may arise from ongoing treaty negotiation processes or other interactions with the Canadian government and legal system (see Land Claims).

The problem is simply stated as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than judicial decisions.

The conventional wisdom is that ALSPs have cracked the code of the legal market: they've seen how the traditional law firm's archaic approach to producing and delivering legal work creates gaping market inefficiencies begging to be exploited, and they've figured out how process improvement, technological investment, labour arbitrage, and system overhauls can enable that exploitation.

Crispin Passmore, Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority (in book): Passmore explains how the SRA inherited a «traditional and old - fashioned» regulatory system driven by the needs of the legal profession, and the SRA's ongoing journey to transform the system to one focused on consumers of legal services.

Avvo, which launched in 2006, has become the most heavily trafficked legal directory — offering a modern take on the traditional lawyer listing with a host of additional features, such as online reviews, question and answers, and a proprietary scoring system.

At the other end, the legal vertical market is filled with smaller players who are building their hosted systems with the same entrepreneurialism as the traditional software companies.

FIJA executive director Kirsten Tynan will speak about the juror's traditional, legal authority to conscientiously acquit through jury nullification and about the impact of various changes to the jury system on its role in protecting individual rights.

Traditional keyword based legal research systems leverage Boolean operators based search to identify relevant case laws.

More than this, it is often more intellectually demanding than traditional legal work, largely because it is more taxing to create a system that can solve many problems than to find an answer to a specific issue.

This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.

Discussions are underway between the federal government and the governments of Ontario and Québec (the provinces Akwesanse traditional territory straddles) to draft a framework for recognizing the Akwesasne legal system.

Their tech - driven models are a departure from the traditional labor - intensive / lawyers - only delivery system and a harbinger for where the legal marketplace — corporate and retail — is headed.

We provide technology powered legal services at a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of the traditional system.

For women lawyers, who often have young children during the early building years of a legal career, the traditional law firm «up or out» promotion system may not work out well.

Hot tubbing is an excellent illustration of how our traditional rights - based legal system, developed over centuries, can adapt to modern conditions.

Ultimately, Ripple does not provide a cryptographic solution to the trust problem, and keeping fraudulent gateways under control will have to be done by more traditional mechanisms instead — clear, industry standard, expectations on gateways» security, in a similar spirit to all major Bitcoin exchanges» policy of keeping over 80 % of customer funds stored in an offline location where there is no way to access them without manual assistance, and outright fraud will have to be met with the help of the good old - fashioned legal system.

According to Sohu, Qian stated in a discussion that «the issue of legal digital currency is of great significance» for China, and spoke about the necessity for traditional financial system stakeholders to set a strategy for blockchain technology.

During the consultations, respondents reflected on some of the benefits provided through the legal system and how these can contribute to traditional owners» economic development.

The native title system provides a mechanism for the legal recognition of traditional owner groups and their traditional rights.