Not exact matches
While it could be argued that wholesale distribution of law will create more retail (free or low cost) legal information distribution points and thus increase
access to justice — indeed, it would solve many of the closed
problems of legal information that I listed above — I'm now not entirely convinced that this is the only way
to go for state government publication efforts.
While the
problem of
access to justice has more than one cause (and so must be addressed in more than one way), the cost of lawyers seems increasingly
to be part of the
problem.
While the opportunities and risks must be considered, the development and application of new
access to justice technologies makes for a welcome shake - up by diversifying
problem solvers, perspectives and approaches.
While many talk about
access to justice issues, Bauman shook up the legal community when he warned these
problems could be «potentially fatal
to our profession as we know it.»
CLOC believes passionately that innovation, technology, collaboration and legal process management can make the legal profession more efficient and answerable
to business demands So
while CLOC attendees might worry and be concerned over the severe
access to justice (A2J)
problem we have in this country, its not necessarily the mission of the organization.
(vi)
while every group experiences civil needs, the poorest and most vulnerable experience more frequent and more complex, interrelated civil legal
problems: Action Committee on
Access to Justice in Civil and Matters, Family
Justice Reform - A Review of Reports and Initiatives: Canadian Forum on Civil
Justice, online http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/sites/default/files/docs/2013/Family%20
Justice%20Reform%20Review%20-%20April%2015%20Final.pdf.
Lack of A2J Threatens Us All Reason number 5: we frankly have an embarrassing
access to justice problem and
while we can continue
to ignore it, we have some responsibility
to our profession and
to the public, who has extended
to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections.
Not only was this a manifestation of injustice in itself, but it also raised major political economy
problems in terms of the commitment of middle income earners
to supporting a legal aid system of which they were never beneficiaries but only contributors as taxpayers, even
while they faced similar denials of
access to justice themselves.
While rooted in the very best of intentions, this standard approach
to justice reform fails
to consider the opinions and suggestions of the only people who can speak fully
to the severity of the
access to justice crisis — the people who sought
to resolve their legal
problems through the
justice system and who failed somewhere along the way.
While these
problems are not the only cause of the
problem of
access to justice in the United States, they constitute, in themselves, an often impregnable barrier.
We hear and read a lot about the
problems with «
access to justice,» and
while this may certainly be an issue in the criminal and family law realms, it is virtually non-existent in personal injury litigation.