Sentences with phrase «about access to justice»

In the legal profession, we talk about access to justice all the time.
The ABA president raised concerns about access to justice for veterans — many of whom face homelessness due to legal concerns — as well as concerns about planned cuts to federal legal services funding.
If we are serious about access to justice, then we must do a better job of providing public access to legal information and legal information services.
The first day they heard about access to justice issues and how design thinking can be used to support innovation.
We care about access to justice, a right that belongs to everyone, regardless of status.
However, we must be careful not to think about access to justice as simply a question of how to provide more litigants with legal representation in the courts.
She is passionate about access to justice and is committed to consistently delivering excellent service.
I guess that part of me is like I really don't think that you have to think about access to justice as sort of nonprofit charity work.
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It is not really about access to justice, as I previously supposed.
An argument often made about access to justice initiatives with technology is that it might actually make things worse.
We hear a lot of talk about access to justice from the judiciary and the politicians who are charged to execute this lofty ideal.
I've written a few posts recently about access to justice and the current flaws in our system.
In the administrative justice system there are legitimate concerns about the access to justice implications of using electronic documents.
Sometimes thinking about access to justice feels like one step forward, two steps back.
Note that we are not doing nothing about access to justice.
I have directly approached my elected members of parliament and the provincial legislature about access to justice issues.
I am experimenting with making short videos that express hopefully challenging ideas about access to justice transformation.
Since coming back to work in the justice sector in 2005, I've been hearing constantly about access to justice.
When we think and talk about access to justice, it's most often in the context of low - income and disadvantaged people.
She addressed her continuing concerns about access to justice, but focused on the change already underway in the profession.
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If ideas and discussion about access to justice in Canada interest you, consider setting aside your next fifteen - minute break (or 13:35 of it) to hear a good presentation.
Recently, a discussion about access to justice solutions cropped up among lawyers on the platform and our executive producer, Laurence Colletti, decided it was worth recreating the conversation in podcast form.
The Chief Justice had nothing to add to what she has been saying about the access to justice problem for years.
Exactly 12 months on from «Fire in the Hole», there feels like a lot of change yet to happen in raising legal, public and political consciousness about the access to justice crisis in Canada — but there are signs that we are heading in the right direction.
Shauna Mireau asks, «Does it say anything about access to justice in Canada that civil claim monetary limits for our small claims courts are generally quite substantial sums?».
For my column this week at Above the Law, I write more about the Access to Justice Lab and its work.
«In some of these cases, they had literally left off a comma,» she says, raising a concern about access to justice for those without counsel.
Hearing about access to justice solutions from the intersection of these professional cultures was inspiring and energizing.
YLAL co-chairs Oliver Carter and Katherine Barnes said: «YLAL welcomes The Right to Justice and believes this report by the Bach Commission represents a vital contribution to the public debate about access to justice and legal aid.
The BCCA found that the issue before it was not about access to justice at all, but about ensuring a proper record for courts to review administrative decisions.
We should be looking at how to sell a story about access to justice, judicial independence, or the Rule of Law in a way that does not just reaffirm lawyers» self image, but actually alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.
Verity regularly writes articles for Legal Voice about access to justice.
Ollie regularly writes for The Justice Gap, Legal Voice and other publications about access to justice and public law.
We have frequently blogged about access to justice issues, including the government's attempts to make Ontario's criminal law system «faster and fairer», and the right to timely trial.
The first day they heard about access to justice issues and how design thinking can be used to support... [more]
[201]... Putting aside the manageability factor, there is a fatal flaw in Thomson's arguments about access to justice, judicial economy, and behaviour modification.
People speak about access to justice as a reason, but it's incorrect to think that swarming the market with new lawyers would facilitate that.
At our Jan 30th Darwin Talk event, LegalShield CEO Jeff Bell spoke very passionately about access to justice for all citizens through technology.
Many organizations connected with the United Way know firsthand about the access to justice crisis.
Discussions about access to justice typically focus attention on access through the traditional routes of courts, lawyers, law schools and pro bono or legal aid service providers.
Currently, The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) with support from the Southern Ontario Library Service is surveying public librarians in southern Ontario about the access to justice needs of their patrons.
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