Sentences with phrase «about access to justice issues»

Offer training about access to justice issues in post-secondary programs to integrate legal, health, social and education services

I have directly approached my elected members of parliament and the provincial legislature about access to justice issues.

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.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

However, another critique launched at the AMP has less to do with its process and more to do with it's digital nature: «what about those people who don't have access to a computer, how will they dispute a charge — this is an access to justice issue».

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.

I guess some of us shouldn't complain about that, though that does create access to justice issues.

That strikes straight to the heart of the access to justice conundrum: everyone has lots of ideas about what the basic problems are and what could be done to fix them, but there appears to be more eagerness to discuss the issue than to deal with it.

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.»

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

He says the whole issue also falls into the context of access to justice and a concern about small companies using lawyers who «dabble» when they actually need specialized expertise.

For this inaugural issue of our Lawyers We Love series, we sat down with Tiffany Graves at the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission for a quick chat about jJustice Commission for a quick chat about justicejustice.

Her goal is to reform the entire legal system by helping as many people as possible to understand their general rights, encouraging individuals to be proactive about legal issues, increasing access to justice for low and middle income individuals, and providing education to the community so that re-entering individuals can have seamless and successful returns to the community.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal problems ever make it to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.

See my comments at bottom and you will see why it is hard, for me at least, too put much stock in anything OTLA lawyers say about these concrete access to justice issues.

«ODR» by definition is about «disputes»; not all «justice» issues, and thus access to justice issues, involve disputes.

What is interesting and encouraging about Iacobucci's report however, is his suggestion that we will need a wider lens and a longer memory if we are to truly address access to justice issues in Canada's Aboriginal communities.

In fact, every federal politician should be informed about and have a position on Access to Justice issues in 2015, not least because so many of their constituents are and will be affected.

«The center aims to create a supportive environment for students to think about these issues, to contribute to access to justice through public interest and pro bono work, and to engage with those practicing in the field,» Meals said.

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.

After engaging this afternoon in a discussion about a number of issues related to ongoing access to justice, I continued thinking about the barriers that stand between ordinary people with legal problems and their effective access to justice.

«It's a good opportunity to contribute to the community and fill a need, and there is a growing issue in our profession about access to justice and so it is a way to help with that problem as well,» he says.

The speakers discussed the lived struggles of those experiencing homelessness and offered attendees an opportunity to learn about the issues preventing access to justice and equality.

The Racial Equity Committee monitors and provides advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

I am passionate about the pivotal role online forms play in increasing access to justice for underserved issues and communities.

It used to be just about possible to discuss court reform separately from other access to justice issues such as online legal information and advice prior to issue of proceedings.

I have been thinking about the issue of «access to justice» and the rhetoric that surrounds it.

Starting a public conversation about access to justice will shift the perception of the issue to a holistic understanding of the law as a part of daily life that can be understood and managed throughout one's life, often with the help of legal professionals.

We are proud to provide professional opportunities and resources for black students, as well as a forum for formal and informal discussions about many subjects, including legal policy issues, effective career strategies, evolutions in substantive law, and access to justice for marginalized groups.

In an interview that covered issues ranging from the build versus buy decision in legal tech to the importance of technology in expanding access to justice, Bradick spoke to LegalTech news about the launch of Theory and Principle.

It will resolve access to justice issues on a short term basis but I am concerned about what this means for legal aid lawyers going forward.

C. Meaningful access to justice and information about the law, legal issues, and the civil and criminal justice systems

Specifically, he talked about his instrumental work on the National Action Committee on Civil and Family Justice, and what he envisions the role of students and law schools to be in addressing issues of access to justiceJustice, and what he envisions the role of students and law schools to be in addressing issues of access to justicejustice (A2J).

But it is interesting that, I think, most people jump to the conclusion that, kind of, if pro bono public interest access to justice issues are the things that they either are passionate about or want to pursue, that nonprofits are the path there.

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A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities is the lack of attention paid to issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.

A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities are issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.