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Hoy A.C.J.O., noted that «requiring multiple motions results in unwarranted delay and expense and does not foster access to justice» and that to require RBC to bring another motion «would fly in the face of increasing concerns about access to justice in Canada».

If you have questions about access to justice in Canada, please contact the criminal defence lawyers at Affleck & Barrison online or at 905-404-1947.

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?

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?».

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.

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«You are simply wrong to assert that the FBI and the Justice Department lied about our ability to access the San Bernardino killer's phone,» he wrote in a letter to the editor Wednesday.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

«Clearly the fact that he's talking about people needing equal access to justice and feeling that they're getting it is an important part of what we're saying as a conference,» said Democratic conference leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is the top black elected official in the Senate.

So far he has talked about foreign policy, social spending, and ballot access, including the possibility of the Justice Party suing the state of California in order to obtain ballot access for 2012.

Arenas leads Hoover's after - school Garden Nutrition classes, one of several programs comprising the educational outreach of the People's Grocery, a nonprofit West Oakland organization that, in addition to providing the community with access to high - quality, affordable food, aims to educate children and adults about nutrition and what it calls «food justice,» or «the human right to healthy food.»

The proof of the importance of that difference lies in the fact that all of the reports written, and all of the conferences held about this «access to justice» problem and about LAO, all failed to examine LAO LAW.

Each law school appoints a staff member to serve as champion / leader for engaging discussion between the school and justice system stakeholders, including the public, about the role of law schools in supporting equal access to justice.

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.

The fact that the majority of Canadians can not afford to seek justice through the current system is a problem which far outstrips in magnitude concerns about maximizing procedural and due process protections for those litigants who are presently able to access the system.

Hopefully, in an ABS - world, many people will find themselves newly able to take advantage of legal services, but still, payment will be required — and it is in this sense that ABS - led access to justice is about, mostly, the middle class.

As Supreme Court scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun's papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro writes in Legal Times about the decision by Blackmun's daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National Public -LSB-...]

Last year, for example, I wrote about the cloud having come into its own, about competence in legal technology becoming a necessity, about mobile becoming the driving force in tech development, about practice management becoming mainstream, and about technology helping to fill the access - to - justice shortfall.

As Supreme Court scholars await the March 4 release of the late Justice Harry Blackmun's papers, Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro writes in Legal Times about the decision by Blackmun's daughter Sally, to give exclusive pre-release access to the papers to reporters Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio.

This paragraph in particular of Malcolm Mercer's article obscures the law society's great negligence in failing to try to solve the problem, «If we are serious about the access to justice gap, we should accept that no one solution will slay the access dragon.

In 2011, a colloquium was held at the U of T law school which lead to Middle Income Access to Justice, a collection of essays about civil justice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and AusJustice, a collection of essays about civil justice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and Ausjustice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and Australia.

The Washington LLLT program came about after our Supreme Court commissioned a Civil Legal Needs Study in 2003, which concluded that there was limited access to justice for those with little or no financial means.

It is of particular relevance to women's equality and access to justice for a variety of reasons, including the fear that an ICBC adjuster can read about a woman's therapeutic abortion or sexual assault history, which may in turn prevent women from seeking damages in personal injury matters.

We're doing computational law and Blockchain this month, but it could easily be about data protection, access to justice, or sharing economy regulation in the future.

Rachel said that this should be more than just areas not in scope anymore, but also about broader legal principles of access to justice.

States are changing criminal justice procedures to grant inmates more access to DNA evidence, address questions about witness identifications, change the way evidence is handled and modernize other procedures, hoping the changes will result in better convictions and fewer challenges, The New York Times reports.

The first post I wrote for SLAW was called «Of Baked Beans and the Rule of Law», and it was about how we, the legal profession, should be telling the story of access to justice in a way that alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

I also think it's fantastic to see PLEI being discussed in the conversations about improving access to justice.

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.

And in the LAO blog issue for Jan. 22, 2014, see Dr. MacFarlane's photo and article, «Fire in the hole: Why every lawyer needs to care about access to Justice.»

«# 1,000 an hour lawyers restrict access to justice `, Law firms accused of rigging the market through lack of transparency about their fees «scream headlines in The Times and the Daily Mail.

In «Measuring Effectiveness of Access to Justice Initiatives,» a panel discussion held Saturday morning, there was a discussion about the lack of standard definitions, which limits organizations» ability to evaluate and compare initiatives» effectiveness.

What's especially noteworthy about Free the Law, though, and what distinguishes it from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with free, public access to them, on the conviction that access to legal information promotes access to justice.

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[201]... Putting aside the manageability factor, there is a fatal flaw in Thomson's arguments about access to justice, judicial economy, and behaviour modification.

«The Access to Justice movement challenges society to seek ways to educate citizens about the law and legal procedure, expand the appearance of counsel to those most in need, and provide information and programs for those handling their own cases.

I have also written in a previous column about literacy audits and access to justice.

He also told me about Fastcase's plans to help increase access to justice by expanding into other countries in the near future.

Seeing students, lawyers, business people, and others get excited about the possibilities in the current legal market and about improving the quality of legal services and access to justice is very satisfying.

Aaron Street: I guess with today's conversation with Nicole about technology design and access to justice, it's another good opportunity for us to step back and kind of chat about what this access to justice goal is all about and how our listeners and the small firm legal community in general can support it in a way that makes sense.

As well, in recent years considerable popular and legal media attention has focused on the lack of access to justice and the high cost of legal representation, often making connections to concerns about the adequacy of available legal aid.

I wanted to talk to you about one particular bit of access to justice work that's still in process, so we're not going to talk specifics about it, but maybe first we could talk a little bit about the design process that you bring.

Yet, until now, there has been no identifiable, central platform in Canada where a wide range of justice stakeholders can exchange research and resources, raise questions and share ideas and concerns about access to justice issues.

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Sam, since today's conversation is about access to justice and potentially advocating for a civil right to counsel, we thought it would be interesting to kind of check the pulse of our listeners and see both how they feel about the concept of creating a civil right to counsel, and also about kind of what their commitment to access to justice and pro bono work is, and so we created a really simple two question survey in the show notes for today's podcast episodes.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

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What this is all about though, or at least it should be all about, is that many people do not have access to justice, in large part because they do not have access to the legal services they need.