Sentences with phrase «access to justice for people»

«It's really exciting to give access to justice for people,» he continued.

Justice and health partnerships have emerged as an important new strategy for improving «legal health», and for increasing access to justice for people living on a low income.

It was seen as an opportunity to maintain relationships in pursuit of facilitating access to justice for the people of Ontario and to educate legislators about regulatory functions and mandate.

All were groundbreaking but the most important lessons learned from them, he said, was realizing part of access to justice for the people affected was allowing them to tell their stories.

The Connecticut Bar Foundation serves its mission to further the rule of law in Connecticut in part by securing and administering a reliable and sufficient flow of funds to support legal services and access to justice for people of limited means.

Our goal is to assure access to justice for all people regardless of economic status.

Explicitly recognises that some people will be unable to use online and, in the words of its official summary, «a range of strategies must accompany the introduction of online dispute resolution to ensure access to justice for people who experience particular disadvantage or require extra support».

If the public interest warranta any allocation of lawyer licensing fees to supporting access to justice for people of modest means, surely that would rank above some of the ways the Law Societies are currently spending the money collected today in lawyer licensing levies.

That is a violation of the duties imposed on the law society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient manner.

«In my view it offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources,» wrote Lord Justice Briggs.

This situation violates the duties imposed upon the Law Society of Upper Canada by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, and to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

This award is presented each year to an individual who has made significant contributions to further the rights, dignity, and access to justice for people with disabilities.

In Ontario, the Law Society Act instructs that the Law Society has duties to (i) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, (ii) facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario and (iii) to protect the public interest.

The Society has a duty to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

«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.

In Briggs LJ's estimation, according to his Interim Report, the OC «offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources».

I am extremely honored to announce that I have been elected a trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the premiere legal charity in Massachusetts working to increase access to justice for all people in the state.

This section examines how the first seven dimensions of well - being set out in the UNCFPD affect access to justice for persons with disabilities.

G3ict, an advocacy initiative created by the United Nations to support digital inclusivity, submitted a paper this week on improving access to justice for persons with disabilities through technology.

Cheryl Axleby, co-chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, agrees: «In the last generation we've had numerous seminal reports which have emphasised repeatedly that the legal assistance sector is not resourced adequately and therefore can not provide equitable access to justice for our peoples.

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That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

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Legal aid enables people to have access for justice.

The report itself acknowledges that access to justice is likely to be impaired if the small claims limit is changed significantly, particularly for people who do not feel confident to represent themselves or lack the tools to present a case in court.

«Dominic Ayine, the Deputy Minister for Justice who represented the Government in the Supreme Court and opposed my application, and others, went public with the electronic and print media to mount unconstitutional and contumacious attacks and insults on the Court decision and on my person for daring to access the Court.»

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached an agreement with North Adams to improve access for people with disabilities.

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

Overview For young people involved in the justice system, navigating a pathway into and through postsecondary education and the workforce is often met with a range of barriers including social stigmatization arising from court involvement, lack of access to resources

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A 2005 report published by Graeme R. Newman and Megan M. McNally for the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that 14 % of people who knew how their information was compromised believed it was obtained through «other» means, which include theft by people who had access to their information.

The extreme lack of access to pet resources for millions of people is an overlooked national crisis and a social justice issue in its own right.

«Nondiverse teams designing [access - to - justice] tech solutions for communities comprised overwhelmingly of poor people of color will inevitably be highly susceptible to a myriad of design bias throughout the development and launch phase,» writes Miguel Willis, program director for the Access to Justice Technology Fellows Program and cited in the raccess - to - justice] tech solutions for communities comprised overwhelmingly of poor people of color will inevitably be highly susceptible to a myriad of design bias throughout the development and launch phase,» writes Miguel Willis, program director for the Access to Justice Technology Fellows Program and cited in the justice] tech solutions for communities comprised overwhelmingly of poor people of color will inevitably be highly susceptible to a myriad of design bias throughout the development and launch phase,» writes Miguel Willis, program director for the Access to Justice Technology Fellows Program and cited in the rAccess to Justice Technology Fellows Program and cited in the Justice Technology Fellows Program and cited in the report.

The fear is that digital access to justice tools will be seen as a cost effective «upgrade» to traditional access to justice initiatives, and investment that in the new technology could come at too high a price for people without the skills or equipment needed to navigate online tools.

«We define access to justice broadly to include innovations in courts, the bar, legal aid and community that make it easier for people to obtain access to justice institutions, and to just results within those institutions.»

The linked article takes note of the fact, as will all of you, that there is a potential for abuse here: if good people can scrape databases for noble access - to - justice reasons, bad bottom - feeders can scrape those same databases to sell people expensive services they do not need.

The news will come as a relief to many lawyers, who feared fixed costs for all cases up to # 250,000 — as previously suggested by Jackson LJ — would make many cases commercially unviable, curbing access to justice for many people with valid claims.

There is palpable potential for such apps to help reduce some of the financial, psychological, informational and physical barriers that many people face in accessing justice.

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.

Providing access to justice to people who need legal advice can only increase with providing incentives for said people.

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.

After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know wherejustice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know wherejustice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know whereJustice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know whereJustice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.

The policy reason for the so - called «American Rule» is to help ensure access to justice by eliminating the fear of litigation costs that may deter people from pursuing their days in court.

Following the legal aid cuts introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal help.

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.

Upon joining the National Committee, she will focus on divorce reform and access to justice for vulnerable people.

«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.

The layer just below the water line probably for the most part represents people who should have access to the formal justice system.

It would give more people access to justice and make the process easier to navigate for them.