Sentences with phrase «access to the profession by»

Two examples demonstrate the Law Society's effort to create a profession that affords not only equal access to justice, but also equal access to the profession by lawyers from certain disadvantaged groups.

Not exact matches

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

In addition, because medicine is a regulated profession, I have access to the protection afforded me by insurance and disciplinary boards.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) welcomes the final report by the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions.

Nearly one in five participating doctors (17 %) cited cuts as their main concern with regards to their profession, with many stating that they feel hampered by the Health Minister's reforms as patients struggle to access the basic level of care they deserve.

The Forum is currently jointly addressing the challenges put forward by Alan Milburn MPs report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions.

Those advances were fueled by more equal access to universities and high - skilled professions, the study finds.

Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.

A paper by researchers at the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture urges medical schools to do more to increase their enrollment of undocumented immigrants seeking access to the medical professions.

• Enhance the status of teaching by: giving all teachers, especially those at the beginning of their careers, an entitlement to (and expectation to utilise) CPD, and taking steps towards teaching becoming an all Master's qualified profession; and subsidise membership of professional bodies and subject associations for teachers early in their career to ensure they have access to professional learning.

The laws are not promoting the elevation of the teaching profession or serving students by insuring each student has access to an effective teacher.

NNSTOY defines teacher leadership as «the process by which highly effective educators take on roles at the classroom, school, district, state, or national levels in order to advance the profession, improve educator effectiveness, and / or increase access to great teaching and learning for all students.»

School districts should consider connecting with these initiatives because they were designed to help every student navigate the college - going process, raise awareness about college access tools and resources, enhance student support systems by building the capacity of the school counseling profession, and reach students through social media platforms sharing their successes through the «UpNext» free college access tool and «College Signing Day» and «Beating The Odds Summit» events.

Over 25,000 disadvantaged young people have been supported by our programmes encouraging access to universities and leading professions.

Two major reports on access to justice were published in 2013 and, as indicated by the B.C. task forces, the CBA Futures Report and the debate over ABS, legal regulators and the legal profession are taking the access to justice problem seriously.

As explained by the Divisional Court, at paras. 95 - 97, the LSUC over its long history has strived to remove discriminatory barriers to access to the legal profession:

(2) the population's views and desires as to this evolution in the use of the legal profession's monopoly over the provision of legal services to impose a «cutting costs by cutting competence» limitation upon people's ability to access justice;

Proponents suggest that there is evidence to support ABS's positive effect on access to justice and that, in any event, the risks posed by ABS to the legal profession ought not to be overstated.

Advocacy Committee: The Advocacy Committee focuses on coordinating efforts to deal with, among other things, issues of barriers to the legal profession by internationally trained lawyers, diversity in the legal community, access to justice, and the role of Canadians in global legal markets.

Mercer said in its reply to concerns expressed by LSUC benchers, TWU did not address the law society's duty to uphold diversity and equal access to the law profession.

As far removed geographically as the participants were, it was also clear that no one believes that technology alone is a silver bullet for the challenges faced by those who can't get access to justice or by the legal profession as a whole.

McLachlin, who was selected as a «Top 25 Most Influential Lawyer» by Canadian Lawyer multiple times (most recently in 2015), is widely respected in the legal profession for her leadership on the court as well as her outspokenness on issues such as access to justice, free speech, diversity and inclusive leadership.

You'd think the principle that access to legal information facilitates access to justice would be supported by everyone in the legal profession.

In response to Call to action # 27, Law Society Treasurer Janet E. Minor reported, in a June 4, 2015 press release, that the Society is ``... committed to enhancing cultural competency within the legal professions» and to taking steps to improve the services provided by lawyers and licensed paralegals to Métis, First Nations, and Inuit people, as well as access to those services.

A primary purpose of ReInvent Law is to provide a new element of education through research and experimentation on endeavors designed (1) to solve problems faced by the legal profession including access to justice concerns and (2) to create new vehicles for the delivery of legal services.

As was very competently illustrated by these layperson panel members, the legal profession has much to learn from those outside our profession who have observed and often, lived the challenges of seeking access to justice.

Generally lauded by judges and leaders of the profession, the long - term systemic value of pro bono legal service is a matter of limited but uneasy debate in the community of reformers, progressives and do - gooders dedicated to the concept of equal access to justice for everyone.

While recognizing that legitimate social policy objectives can justify a derogation from the prohibition of discriminating on the grounds of age, in this case, the objectives of this measure invoked by the Hungarian government — the need to standardize the age - limits for retirement for public sector employees and to establish a balanced age structure to facilitate access to younger members into the profession — were deemed to be neither necessary nor appropriate in the circumstances.

«When Canadian legal history is written, it may show that the profession was distracted by civility and failed to devote sufficient interest to access to justice,» he wrote in 2011.

As a public site, this law society investment in the most comprehensive free - to - use legal information resource in Canada concurrently serves up perhaps the most significant contribution to access to justice ever made by the legal profession.

A group led by David Wiseman and Suzanne Bouclin at the University of Ottawa proposed that the profession (i.e. 44,000 lawyers) pay and provide access to justice articles, not place the financial burden on students http://www.lsuc.on.ca/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2147487551

Until then, this statement made by Colin Lachance about CanLII is not yet true: «As a public site,... [it] serves up perhaps the most significant contribution to access to justice ever made by the legal profession.»

Let us hope that more and more past supporters will have the courage of epiphany and (1) give up trying to deliver ownership of our profession to those who do not and can not share our ethos, and (2) work toward improving access to justice by tackling the real problems.

Initiatives include PRIME, an alliance of 80 law firms and legal departments across the UK that aims to broaden access to the legal profession by offering work experience to those from less privileged backgrounds.

«We believe that by providing law firms, corporate organisations, not - for - profit organisations and law schools with access to our software platform, we are contributing greatly to the evolution of the legal profession.

Instead of operating a less well funded legal aid style program, perhaps the profession could start addressing the structural issues that are contributing to the problem amorphously referred to as «access to justice» (which I am defining as a person's inability to obtain legal representation at a price they can afford) by:

1) For a profession whose raison d'être is to provide access to justice by meeting the public's legal needs, the fact that the status quo has left and continues to leave significant legal needs unmet in Ontario is another (perhaps the most important) driver of the need for change;

However, in the end, the suspension was overturned by the California Supreme Court, and the justices ruled the Jacoby and Mayer were acting in the highest principles of the legal profession in trying to provide access to legal services to the middle class.

We believe the legal profession and the clients they serve will benefit as a whole if law students are utilized in a meaningful way through exposure to 21st century skills and practical experience by working with technology tools that are expanding legal access and improving the delivery of legal services.»

If the public and the legal profession can reach common ground on the utility of LSRs, they have the potential to increase access to justice by providing tailored and affordable assistance when needed.

A government - appointed Legal Services Board was established to oversee regulation by reference to eight «regulatory objectives» which were, confusingly given equal priority (the public interest, supporting the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting consumers, promoting competition, encouraging a strong independent legal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principles).

SABABC aims to remove any barriers South Asian students may face in pursuing a career in the legal profession and those faced by the South Asian community in accessing justice and educational programs in the community.

Facilities and technology available to the public and legal profession for the electronic service delivery and accessing real and personal property information, business and personal information and other information maintained by the Department;

[108] Others raised the objections to alternative structures that are commonly raised: [109] that they are a threat to the profession's core values, [110] that they will trigger irresolvable conflicts of interest, [111] that lawyers will lose their independence, [112] that there is no evidence that alternative structures have increased access to justice in Australia or England & Wales, [113] that law firms can attract employees by paying competitive salaries without the need to offer employee shareholding, [114] that the burden of proof lies with those who advocate for alternative structures, [115] that there is no way to regulate alternative structures, [116] that alternative structures will lead to a consolidated market for legal services, [117] that more research is required, [118] etc..

[50] The questions ranged from how, generally, clients and potential clients can be better served, to whether access to legal services can be improved by authorizing persons without a full law school education and law license to provide them, to what insights can be gained from innovations in other professions and industries.

The Council, acting unanimously throughout the procedure referred to in Article 251, shall decide on directives the implementation of which involves in at least one Member State amendment of the existing principles laid down by law governing the professions with respect to training and conditions of access for natural persons.

An Act to improve access to justice by amending the Solicitors Act to permit contingency fees in certain circumstances, to modernize and reform the law as it relates to limitation periods by enacting a new Limitations Act and making related amendments to other statutes, and to make changes with respect to the governance of the public accounting profession by amending the Public Accountancy Act

By hosting a Fellow, you are contributing to the development of a future legal innovator and to the profession by accelerating the pace of future innovations in our justice system to gradually reduce those barriers standing in the way of equal access to justice for alBy hosting a Fellow, you are contributing to the development of a future legal innovator and to the profession by accelerating the pace of future innovations in our justice system to gradually reduce those barriers standing in the way of equal access to justice for alby accelerating the pace of future innovations in our justice system to gradually reduce those barriers standing in the way of equal access to justice for all.

By bringing together leaders from all corners of the profession, EDRM and the Center for Judicial Studies are working to ensure that technology advances the administration of justice and that all within the legal profession have access to technological tools and educational resources.

Public law schools are funded largely by Canadian taxpayers; and have been subjected to an avalanche of historic criticism; and have also been granted a monopoly to attract students who want access to the legal profession — not to «chart their own paths.»