Sentences with phrase «access justice problems»

He has held positions on numerous boards and committees created to promote technology solutions to access justice problems.

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Demand that school leaders invest in really supporting students by providing social and emotional support, like access to school psychologists and restorative justice counselors, and spaces where students can work through problems instead of calling law enforcement to deal with discipline issues.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

One of the greatest challenges of dealing with legal reform and public members demanding access to justice is the perception that lawyers are rather indifferent to the problems.

The lack of focus on access to justice and diversity in leadership can create problems and biases in a product's outcome.

Beyond Paladin, Sonday felt that too few legal technology companies were tackling access - to - justice problems.

The necessary solution is set out in my Slaw blog dated August 9th; «Government Intervention to Solve the «Access to Justice» Problem is Inevitable.»

All that has been written and said in relation to the «access to justice» problem — that is, the fact that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost — fails to contain the necessary solution.

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.

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

The most comprehensive and viable options I still think are outlined in the recent «Middle Income Access to Justice» book, which takes tackles the problem of middle class political apathy for access to justice initiatives heAccess to Justice» book, which takes tackles the problem of middle class political apathy for access to justice initiatives hJustice» book, which takes tackles the problem of middle class political apathy for access to justice initiatives heaccess to justice initiatives hjustice initiatives head on.

I think a key problem at the root of the articling crisis and ongoing access to justice concerns is that law school, as wonderful as it is (I loved it), simply does not adequately train students with skills that can be applied in a constructive way to benefit clients.

U of T's access to middle - income justice initiative, a multi-pronged initiative aimed at addressing the growing problem of middle - income access to the civil justice system in Canada.

What we call the «access to justice» problem seems to be similar in nature.

The Chief Justice's speech in Calgary, which I mentioned here last week, illustrated that despite all of our efforts to address access to justice the problem is getting worse, not Justice's speech in Calgary, which I mentioned here last week, illustrated that despite all of our efforts to address access to justice the problem is getting worse, not justice the problem is getting worse, not better:

A recent report by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, stated nearly 12 million Canadians will experience at least one legal problem in a three - year period, and few will have the resources to solve them.

, which made some 20 recommendations, and editor of a collection of essays entitled Closing the Justice Gap: new thinking on an old problem for which contributors were explicitly asked to come up with «radical, exciting and innovative ways» to improve access to jJustice Gap: new thinking on an old problem for which contributors were explicitly asked to come up with «radical, exciting and innovative ways» to improve access to justicejustice.

Sam noted that it highlighted the problems that solosmall attorneys already know are problems: the access to justice gap, that a large number of people don't even understand when they need an attorney, and the profession's resistance to technological experiments.

Solutions to complex problems like access to justice need to be sensitive to this reality.

The primary problem regarding access to justice solutions has already been that of political economy.

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.

The lack of access - to - justice - focused businesses is not a diversity problem alone.

The opportunity for the legal profession to take responsibility to «heal itself» and begin to address the national legal aid funding problems with their own systems of funding to ensure that those needing access to justice receive it.

Also relevant is the fact, as acknowledged elsewhere by the LSUC, that Ontario has a serious access to justice problem (see also the recent work of the CFCJ).

As to what we mean by a «legal» problem, justice and access to justice evolve with innovation and new ways of thinking.

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.

Two major reports on access to justice were published in 2013 and, as indicated by the B.C. task forces, the CBA Futures Report and the debate over ABS, legal regulators and the legal profession are taking the access to justice problem seriously.

The conference includes a hackathon, where students will be presented with an access to justice problem and must come up with a technological solution.

Mary E. Juetten is putting her hopes on legal technology improving access - to - justice problems.

To state the blindingly obvious, access to justice and unmet legal needs are not only local problems even if some of the solutions must be.

If necessary, further funding for such an institute could be obtained by arrangements with the many university and institutional research and policy development organizations that study the justice system and access to justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty justice system and access to justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty oaccess to justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty justice problems; for example, the recently announced, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty oAccess to Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty Justice Centre for Excellence at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

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.

I think lawyers face the same problem trying to discuss access to justice that early earthlings faced trying to discuss the universe.

Recent reports have underscored that access to justice is everyone's problem yet the issue fails to resonate with the public — they indicate low confidence and a sense of alienation.

That has not yet occurred in law around any facet of the access to justice problem, as far as I can tell.

I just have one problem with this article — saying that at law society law libraries the public are not welcome — that is not true — law society libraries have embraced access to justice initiatives that allow for members of the public to come and use the resources on site.

The most pressing problem when it comes to access to justice is the vast majority of people don't know what to do in case of personal legal issues.

As Chief Justice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, «the problem of access to justice is not a nJustice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, «the problem of access to justice is not a njustice is not a new one.

The problem of access to justice is likely the result of a number of causes.

The problems of civil justice, of access to civil justice and of unmet need for service in civil justice are most commonly studied from the point of view of the justice system, mainly with regard to the courts.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

You say you take this «access to justice» problem very seriously.

On this view, new ways of understanding and addressing problems of access to justice appear.

That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions, debt collections, foreclosures — even lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly, with both sides of a dispute having access to an attorney.

All of this also points to the importance of looking outside the legal profession for help in trying to address access to justice problems.

«One of the reasons I started this campaign was because I kept getting calls from litigants looking for services at a lower price, so I'm excited that we're finally going to get access to justice for people with family law problems who can't afford a lawyer,» says Yarmus, who runs Toronto - based Civil Litigations Paralegal Services.

For months, representatives from the Access to Justice Commission and legal aid groups have been meeting with members of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and the Governor's staff to talk about two things: how legal aid can help Wisconsin residents resolve their legal problems more efficiently and how that assistance helps the state save money.

It is clear that in Scotland at present there are significant problems in providing Access to Justice for personal injury claimants.