Sentences with phrase «access to justice for low»

JusticeNet is a not - for - profit service promoting increased access to justice for low - and moderate - income Canadians.

The Women's Bar Foundation is dedicated to ensuring access to justice for low - income women.

IAN is a collaborative effort of leading immigrants» rights organizations designed to increase access to justice for low - income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.

As we look ahead to the 2017 session, which is a 90 - day budget session, we have a lot of work to do in order to increase access to justice for low - income families and individuals.

«Immi was created by the Immigration Advocates Network and Pro Bono Net, who are dedicated to increasing access to justice for low - income immigrants and other vulnerable populations through innovative and effective technology, with support from Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and other donors.»

Our mandate is to provide access to justice for low income Ontarians.

The legal profession should take note, and seriously explore and invest in other innovative and collaborative solutions that engage law students and technology to increase access to justice for low - income and self - represented people.

The site is maintained by the Northwest Justice Project, in conjunction with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit leader in increasing access to justice for low - income people.

Women's Bar Foundation The Women's Bar Foundation is dedicated to ensuring access to justice for low - income women, families, and elders.

NYS BAR ASSOCIATION: ELIMINATION OF LSC FUNDING WOULD DENY ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS Thursday March 16, 2017 at 05:45 pm

Our efforts were part of the American Bar Association's annual ABA Days in Washington, DC — where delegations from all 50 states convene to meet with their representatives and senators about furthering access to justice for low - income individuals and families.

The key question to explore in relation to ABS + is, «What measures need to be integrated into the regulatory framework in order to encourage or compel access to justice for low - income Canadians?»

With your help, the EJC has made outstanding progress in advancing access to justice for low - income Washingtonians.

Public funding should be confirmed as necessary to ensure access to justice for low - income people.

Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida is a nonprofit law firm that provides access to justice for low - income people.

While we all know that this increase is not enough to close the justice gap, it is a much needed step towards ensuring access to justice for low - income Washingtonians.

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.

Through education and advocacy, we will continue to make progress to achieve equal access to justice for low - income families and individuals in our state.

Funded by the non-profit Legal Services Corporation, NJP works to create fair and equal access to justice for low - income individuals and families.

The program was created to assist attorneys who pursue careers in legal aid in Texas and to increase access to justice for low - income individuals.

«Human Rights in Maryland Rent Courts» Study Highlights Need for More Access to Justice for Low - Income Marylanders.

The program was created to assist attorneys who pursue careers in legal aid in Texas and to increase access to justice for low - income individuals.

Many of the groups, completely independent of each other, came up with solutions to improve access to justice for lower - and middle - income people who can not afford a lawyer's help.

Not exact matches

Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron, however, said Pai has «never met a mega-merger he didn't like or a public safeguard he didn't try to undermine,» calling him «an inveterate opponent of net neutrality, expanded broadband access for low - income families, broadband privacy, prison - phone justice, media diversity and more.»

This year, the commission includes Fritz Schwarz, Jr., the Chief Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, who will chair the Commission; Jill Bright, Chief Administrative Officer at Condé Nast; and Paul Quintero, Chief Executive Office at ACCION EAST, Inc., a nonprofit that works to empower low - to moderate - income business owners with access to capital and financial education.

That's partly because traffic speed and certain environmental effects are easier to measure than social - justice considerations, such as access to job opportunities or health care for low - income groups, or balancing the interests of pedestrians and cyclists with those of motorists.

The bill fails to invest in student aid to improve access or affordability for low - income students; instead, the Committee should consider increasing the maximum Pell Grant, maintaining the inflation adjustment for Pell, and expanding Pell eligibility to undocumented and justice - impacted students.

107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directiveTo Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directiveto Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directiveto Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

As for environmental justice, Democrats «will work to expand access to cost - saving renewable energy by low - income households, create good - paying jobs in communities that have struggled with energy poverty, and oppose efforts by utilities to limit consumer choice or slow clean energy deployment.»

Perhaps having more baseline practical skills could enable them to do more low level legal work earlier, resulting in their ability to handle more legal tasks at lower cost to a firm — lower costs for minor tasks is a key practical reality in access to justice discussions.

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.

First, as a matter of normative priority, where regulatory change is sought to be justified by potential for improvements in access to justice, it is arguable that it is the needs of the more disadvantaged and impoverished (people living on low income) that ought to be given priority consideration.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

In my view, that duty ought to be understood to at least require that the debate on ABSs and access to justice include consideration of possible means for ensuring that the new and improved services ABSs are expected to develop will benefit not just the middle class, but people living on low income as well.

I don't have a prescription for narrowing the gap or getting rich with new business models that lower the cost of legal services to serve those currently in the access - to - justice gap.

«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.

The Center for Access to Justice at Georgia State University College of Law is working to change that misconception, demonstrating through research how lower - income individuals have a fundamentally different experience with the civil and criminal justice systems, particularly in theJustice at Georgia State University College of Law is working to change that misconception, demonstrating through research how lower - income individuals have a fundamentally different experience with the civil and criminal justice systems, particularly in thejustice systems, particularly in the South.

Washington State's legal aid network, known as the Alliance for Equal Justice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low - income people with access to jJustice, is comprised of statewide and specialty legal aid organizations that work collaboratively with 17 county - based volunteer attorney programs to provide low - income people with access to justicejustice.

, «Middle Income Access to Justice» (University of Toronto Press, 2012), the «Introduction» states in part (p. 4): «For our purposes, when we refer to middle income earners, we are contemplating the large group of individuals whose household income is too high to allow them to qualify for legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattFor our purposes, when we refer to middle income earners, we are contemplating the large group of individuals whose household income is too high to allow them to qualify for legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattfor legal aid, but too low, in many cases, for them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law mattfor them to be in a position to hire legal counsel to represent them in a civil law matter.

«It's easy to see how this could be a win for low - and middle - income people who currently find themselves floundering in the access - to - justice gap,» he writes.

Alternatives that have been used successfully in other schools or otherwise proposed include a certain number of seats of lower tuition for those experiencing financial hardships, public - private partnerships for projects and initiatives in the areas of legal technology and artificial intelligence to provide salaries while in law school, and a tuition forgiveness program for those who enroll in post-graduate access to justice programs.

Since its creation by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2009, the Commission has worked to foster expanded access to the justice system for unrepresented, low - income Wisconsin residents.

Missing in law society discussions is the fact that outside investment has an excellent chance of creating better access to justice through greater investment in process and technology that in turn will lower prices for the average Canadian.

It details the access to justice gap for the poor and low - income.

Our mission is to develop and encourage means of expanding access to the civil justice system for unrepresented low - income Wisconsin residents.

With this partnership, RocketLawyer and the ABA lowered the price point for access to justice.

ATJCs are state - based leadership bodies in the U.S, with the mandate «to expand access to civil justice at all levels for low - income and disadvantaged people in the state by assessing their civil legal needs, developing strategies to meet them, and evaluating progress.»

Episodes in 2017 also examined the buyer's market in legal services and the low bono concept for access to justice.

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.

Regulation of paralegals, whose fees are much lower than those of lawyers, is «an important component» of access to justice for B.C. residents, says Van Ommen.