Sentences with phrase «access to justice initiatives»

How do we as a society decide who is responsible to pay for access to justice initiatives and to what extent?

Members of the profession are also being encouraged to support the drive by donating the equivalent of one billable hour in support of access to justice initiatives by the five organizations involved.

An argument often made about access to justice initiatives with technology is that it might actually make things worse.

A new fundraiser to help support access to justice initiatives kicks off tomorrow.

Your comment also made a connection between new taxes and the funding of vital access to justice initiatives such as legal aid.

Millennials show keen interest in a range of access to justice initiatives.

As I sat in the auditorium full of law school administrators and legal service providers at my first Annual Law School Access to Justice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New York State.

For information about the various White Paper topics and themes as well as other access to justice initiatives, view the Report.

This sensitivity has influenced a range of access to justice initiatives across Canada.

The Canadian Forum for Civil Justice recently released the Canadian Access to Justice Initiatives — Justice Development Goals Status Report.

We're grateful to our partners at Melbourne Law School and Neota Logic for their commitment to this important access to justice initiative.»

Law students have opportunities to become involved in CBA access to justice initiatives, including discussions of this report.

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 head on.

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.

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.

Since 1986, the Montana Justice Foundation has distributed over $ 5 million to over forty legal aid organizations and access to justice initiatives throughout the state of Montana.

He is a strong promoter of The University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic, and is actively involved in various access to justice initiatives.

The project leverages LawHelp Interactive (LHI), a national online document assembly service that provides support to access to justice initiatives by legal services, court, pro bono, and law school programs in more than 40 states.

At the same time, Bauman praised national access to justice initiatives, and urged lawyers to embrace change.

Sina is passionate about access to justice initiatives and increasing awareness of alternatives to court by ensuring the accessibility of information available to the public.

She also serves as a Ministry liaison to external access to justice initiatives and organizations, including research initiatives at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law through CREATE Justice and the Dean's Forum.

The citation read as follows: «The National Self - Represented Litigants Project at the University of Windsor is at once perhaps the most important and most unsung access to justice initiative in North America.

The overall impact and goal of this project will be to provide Limited English Proficient (LEP) communities a greater sense of meaningful inclusion in LASH's many access to justice initiatives and technology based resources.

While a national justice system might seem a laudable goal, investment in a national justice care system can dilute the progress currently made and truly foreseeable in present access to justice initiatives.

Hopefully, these two national projects on access to justice supported by numerous smaller access to justice initiatives around the country will over the next year provide the sort of new thinking that will enable us to genuinely reach a crossroad in making progress on access to justice policy in this country.

In a recent article, «Evidence - Based Access to Justice ``, Laura Abel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law highlights the lack of evidence - based approaches in evaluating access to justice initiatives in the civil justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — a case.

The Advocates» Journal Summer 2014 has run an interesting piece by Jonathan Lisus which suggests that, on the contrary, Canadian courts and creative counsel are using the Hryniak to craft procedures that bring cases to trial in a more efficient and cost effective way, than has any other access to justice initiative.

Getting involved as a volunteer with PBSC is an easy way to support access to justice initiatives across the country.

In addition, the Forum has also published the «Status Report: Working Data Document», which includes data from the «Canadian Access to Justice Initiatives: Justice Development Goals Status Report», as well as raw data from the recent Justice Development Goals Survey that is not discussed in the Report.

Incubators meet two important access to justice initiatives: they facilitate a...

In «Measuring Effectiveness of Access to Justice Initiatives,» a panel discussion held Saturday morning, there was a discussion about the lack of standard definitions, which limits organizations» ability to evaluate and compare initiatives» effectiveness.

Our justice departments, attorneys general, law societies and bar associations must not overlook the potential of courthouse libraries as the space where their access to justice initiatives connect with the public, with the courthouse librarians acting as the trained ambassadors.

As Roach and Sossin point out, «the focus of the public interest bar has shifted from the right to government - funded legal representation to other access to justice initiatives.»

«Hawaii has been recognized as a leader across the country for our access to justice initiatives with the establishment of statewide self - help centers as a living example of these efforts,» said Associate Judge and Hawaii Access to Justice Commission Chair Daniel Foley.

But the reports also suggest access to legal information to better inform citizens — who should be the primary focus of all access to justice initiatives — of their rights and obligations can be relatively easily achieved through more online legal information.

Because participants» perceptions of the assistance provided by organizations are a component of success, this is not an irrelevant consideration in development of analysis techniques for access to justice initiatives.

This documentation is not always readily available for the kinds of issues most commonly dealt with in access to justice initiatives, as written judgements are often not published for routine matters.

As he noted in an ABA Legal Rebels blogpost this week, to date the evidence in the U.S. points to the ineffectiveness of access to justice initiatives.

Additionally, Daniel Rodriguez, legal education trailblazer and outgoing Dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, will be joining the ROSS Intelligence team in an advisory capacity focusing on ROSS» law school expansion and access to justice initiatives.

Following the recommendations of A Roadmap for Change and the example of Nova Scotia's recently - formed Access to Justice Co-ordinating Committee, we can expect more commission - like structures and other access to justice initiatives to form at the local and national levels in the coming months and years.

In addition, Daniel Rodriguez, outgoing dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, is joining ROSS as an advisor to assist with the company's law school expansion and access to justice initiatives.