No one would argue against increased
access to justice for claimants.
At Woodsford Litigation Funding, we are proud of our role in providing
access to justice for claimants who have been mistreated by bigger and richer defendants.
This financing tool provides a valuable means of
access to justice for claimants who may not have funds available, or may not wish to tie up funds, for costly yet meritorious claims.
We are very pleased that he has joined Therium and we are proud that he and his team are already enabling
access to justice for claimants in some very substantial legal cases.»
Not exact matches
It is clear that in Scotland at present there are significant problems in providing
Access to Justice for personal injury
claimants.
n Baier v Alberta, 2007 SCC 31 [Baier],
Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada articulated a test
for whether an underinclusive statutory platform of expression infringes section 2 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and thus whether a
claimant has a positive entitlement
to access that platform.
Established in 1992, Australia's federal class action regime was developed
to promote the more efficient resolution of multiple claims sharing common issues,
to increase
access to justice for small
claimants and
to safeguard the interests of group members and respondents alike.
Further, the legal aid cuts and civil
justice reforms announced this year will undoubtedly cut
access to justice for many
claimants.
«The reforms will put significant impediments in the way of
claimants seeking
justice for smaller personal injury claims and would appear
to be caught by the Supreme Court's statement in last July's Unison case that, without unimpeded
access to justice, the democratic process was in danger of becoming «a meaningless charade».
«By a 3:2 majority, the Supreme Court judges reaffirmed the previous line of authorities which provide greater
access to justice through the English courts
for English domiciled
claimants who are seriously injured in a non-EU Member State.
Canadian immigration and refugee laws and the IRB's implementation of these laws have come under fierce attack
for creating many substantive, procedural and inclusion barriers
to access to justice for refugee
claimants.
[14] A class proceeding is not the appropriate procedure
to obtain
access to justice for a group of individual
claimants without a commonality other than the possibility of having been victimized by the same villain or group of villains.
«The reforms will put significant impediments in the way of
claimants seeking
justice for smaller personal injury claims and would appear
to be caught by the Supreme Court's statement in last July's Unison case that, without unimpeded
access to justice, the democratic process was in danger of becoming «a meaningless charade»,» he said.
There is a very real and concerning lack of affordable
access to justice for the average person in Ontario and across the country — this leaves some
claimants no choice but
to represent themselves.
It comes back
to the old argument about who pays
for access to justice; with yet further cuts
to legal aid piggy backing on restricting
access for claimants under the Jackson reforms where's the balance
to be achieved?