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Most people do not have access to a lawyer at a reasonable cost, in addition to the devastating circumstances of a suicide, they often give up and do not necessarily try and fight the denial of a life insurance claim due to suicide.

Not exact matches

Gain preferred access to HR solutions and platforms such as executive or international recruitment agencies, immigration lawyers, innovative learning tools and more, often at a preferred rate.

The suspects however told the court the last time they heard from the lawyer, Augustine Obuor, was before the committal proceedings at the District Court and they also had no access to relations.

* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

The court ordered that ex-NSA must be allowed to access and brief his lawyers at a neutral place instead of the premises of the DSS headquarters in Abuja so as to enable him prepare adequately for his defence in the trial.

At 1 p.m., NYC Council members Carlos Menchaca and Rory Lancman and others denounce the mayor's executive budget proposal that would restrict access to lawyers to immigrants convicted of certain crimes, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Correction Officer William Valentin's lawyer, Phil Seelig, wrote a letter to Commissioner Joseph Ponte claiming the jails boss has intentionally denied Valentin access to campaign at city lockups until after May 18, less than two weeks before ballots are mailed out.

The Right to Counsel Coalition estimates that half of evictions would be prevented with access to a lawyer — which could make a significant dent in the record 60,000 homeless New Yorkers currently staying in shelters at a cost of nearly $ 2 billion per year.

At Laveer Legal, clients are assigned their own lawyer from the outset and have access to a helpdesk service that provides immediate and unlimited employment law and HR advice.

This means that if the lawyers were unable to get onto their premises, eg as a result of fire or flood, then access to systems and documents would, at best, be limited, and at worst, work would have to cease altogether.

In order to prove their case for copyright infringement at trial, Gaye's lawyers needed to show that i) Williams and Thicke had access to «Got to Give it Up», and ii) that the two songs were substantially similar.

With the Directives on the right to information in criminal proceedings and the right to access to a lawyer successfully passed, the Proposal for a Directive on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial in criminal proceedings marks a new step in the recent efforts of the Commission to create common EU framework of defence rights which minimally need to be respected by the Member States.

After all, we would argue that being able to read at an advanced level, or having access to a lawyer are far greater advantages than access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic with regard to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.

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.

Access to Justice for all, in particular those who are economically weak, is at the core of this project, as is the defence of the lawyers who seek to provide it.

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

«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.

Digitized law firm documents can be accessed from any Internet - enabled device, allowing lawyers to meet with clients at any location.

At trial, the mother was granted custody; the father, who was not represented by a lawyer, was given access that was to be supervised by the Salvation Army.

Conversely, the lawyer without access to these technologies will be at a significant competitive disadvantage.

If you're on the road you've got everything on your computer but you need Internet access, you hear all the stories about or even in a coffee shop, people being able to look at what information, what sites you're visiting, if you're using an unsecured provider and that ought to scare the heck out of all the lawyers because you just can't afford to have your confidential data be compromised in any way.

The one massive advantage that an outsider has is access to capital, and this is what has been keeping many lawyers up at night.

If you've been injured in a collision and need help navigating the accident benefits forms and coverages that are available to you through your auto insurance policy, don't hesitate to contact our lawyers at McNally Gervan who can help with ensuring that you have access to all of the benefits that may be available to you.

chiropractors or physiotherapist) whereby treatment is advanced on our promise to reimburse them upon settlement (e) deferral payment options that can be arranged by our Vancouver office for special and pricey diagnostic tests like MRIs, CT Scans, etc so that you need not pay for these such tests until your case settles most often ICBC will actually reimburse us at the conclusion of your case for such special diagnostic tests provided they are medically necessary and you are referred by a qualified physician for greater discussion CLICK HERE (f) community based resources which can be accessed by our lawyer to pay for extraordinary medical expenses.

My wish for Access for Justice in Canada this holiday season is that every lawyer in Canada commit to assisting at least one SRL over the holiday season with unbundled -LSB-...]

You can find out more — and access a free guide to dealing with lawyer stress — at her website, www.redesignyourmind.com.

Lawyers could work at home many days and, when they come to the firm's offices, focus on those activities unique to central offices, such as attending in - person meetings or accessing core services or staff not available elsewhere.

The Lawyer Portal, in partnership with the Bar Council and CILEx, is launching an exciting new initiative to widen access into law by informing and inspiring prospective lawyers from all backgrounds, at all schools throughout the UK.

It is well known that Canadian lawyers have worked to promote access to justice through both legal aid and pro bono work for many years, and this has generally been conducted at a provincial level.

The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email to or from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password to the email account, or to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email from a public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may access it on devices that are potentially accessible to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.

Lawyers are okay at paying lip - service to the importance of judicial access.

Lawyers at large firms probably don't need an app such as this — they have access to enterprise - grade calendaring systems within their firms.

Jay Michi, a third - year student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, says law schools are oriented toward producing lawyers for big law firms — an orientation that needs to change in order to improve access.

«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.

CPD is in largest measure a waste of time and resources that could be far more profitably applied to creating an encrypted, key - worded data base of precedents, relevant case law, and other materials (not unlike the old bar ad materials except these would be updated continuously as needed every year past your call) that all lawyers could access for research purposes at any time; i.e., the time they need it.

If lawyers choose to use systems that do not support that process, they do so at their own risk, and the Law Society may end up having to collect or access personal information that is irrelevant to an investigation.

Giving women's organizations access to in - house lawyers would not only give abuse victims access to justice, says Track, it would also give social workers the ability to focus on what they're good at.

In 2000, I was lucky enough to go to East Africa with the CBA International Development Committee to look at the role that technology could play in access to law - related information for African judges and lawyers.

During a panel discussion last week at the Thomson Reuters Emerging Legal Technology Forum panel called Prometheus Unbound: On «Chatbots» Robot Lawyers and Ongoing Access to Justice, lawyers from a variety of backgrounds discussed the opportunities and applications for, and the growing popularity of, legal technology to address pressing needs in the provision of legal seLawyers and Ongoing Access to Justice, lawyers from a variety of backgrounds discussed the opportunities and applications for, and the growing popularity of, legal technology to address pressing needs in the provision of legal selawyers from a variety of backgrounds discussed the opportunities and applications for, and the growing popularity of, legal technology to address pressing needs in the provision of legal services.

Since that time, some of our lawyers and I have had other problems accessing and using the site and I have reported those problems to the tech support people at Canada Law Book and have had not entirely satisfactory results.

In Public Access to Documents in the EU, Leonor Rossi and Patricia Vinagre e Silva, respectively professor of EU law at Lisbon's Nova School of Business and Economics, and lawyer in the field of EU administrative law, set out to analyse, systematise and contextualise the more than 200 judicial disputes emerging out of requests for access to documents of the EU instituAccess to Documents in the EU, Leonor Rossi and Patricia Vinagre e Silva, respectively professor of EU law at Lisbon's Nova School of Business and Economics, and lawyer in the field of EU administrative law, set out to analyse, systematise and contextualise the more than 200 judicial disputes emerging out of requests for access to documents of the EU instituaccess to documents of the EU institutions.

Of course this platform places a strata of AI to make access to information easier and it will be capable of suggesting options, solutions and resources, just as a lawyer does at present; but that doesn't mean that the lawyer is excluded from the equation.

The barristers at Essex Court Chambers, as individual lawyers, may only act on a specific matter or case if instructed to do so by one of the following: a solicitor, a qualified foreign lawyer, or an authorised licensed access client who has been approved under the Bar Standards Board's Licensed Access Recognition Regulaaccess client who has been approved under the Bar Standards Board's Licensed Access Recognition RegulaAccess Recognition Regulations.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

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 justice.

Lawyers at Burton Law are using a host of mobile apps and secure cloud collaboration to access and revise legal documents such as contracts, motions, and legal memos while they are away from the office in court and client meetings.

The central issue at the core of the judicial review claim concerned the human defendant's lawyers seeking access to the full first account interviews provided by senior company employees to the company's lawyers, and which were undertaken as part of that investigation.

Our Houston lawyers provide our clients with the personal attention of a small firm, yet maintain access to the resources of the entire legal team at The Cochran Firm.

Lawyers at Burton Law have solved this problem using secure cloud collaboration to store and access files from any device.

The personal injury and criminal defense attorneys at our Houston office have decades of combined experience helping people get the justice they deserve, and remain an active part of our national firm, giving them access to the countless resources and legal expertise of some of the nation's most effective lawyers.