Sentences with phrase «as an access to justice problem»

So let's skip forward to the here and now to see how much progress has been made regarding «expert witness battles» as an access to justice problem.

Not exact matches

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

I think a key problem at the root of the articling crisis and ongoing access to justice concerns is that law school, as wonderful as it is (I loved it), simply does not adequately train students with skills that can be applied in a constructive way to benefit clients.

Also relevant is the fact, as acknowledged elsewhere by the LSUC, that Ontario has a serious access to justice problem (see also the recent work of the CFCJ).

As to what we mean by a «legal» problem, justice and access to justice evolve with innovation and new ways of thinking.

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.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

That has not yet occurred in law around any facet of the access to justice problem, as far as I can tell.

As Chief Justice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, «the problem of access to justice is not a nJustice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, «the problem of access to justice is not a njustice is not a new one.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

Last but certainly not least, with more than 1 in 4 respondents (26 %) having experienced a stress - related illness and more than 1 in 5 respondents (21 %) reporting the loss of employment or need to relocate as a result of their legal problem, Global Insights on Access to Justice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sJustice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sjustice issues on people's lives.

The answer is that this Government has no interest at all in maintaining access to justice because, as the defendant, it sees this as the problem itself.

It bears repeating that some of the GLSA legal plans are more than 40 years old, and even more importantly, these plans are being overlooked as the answer to the American access to justice problem.

As the challenges and realities of the SRL explosion have become clearer, I have been shocked by the strength of the resistance not only to responsive change but even to accepting that there is an Access to Justice problem that needs to be understood and addressed.

As many judges and now the Governor General have reminded us, we have an Access to Justice crisis which is a demand side problem.

Personal plight areas such as family law, refugee law, and human rights are the site of Canada's worst access to justice problems.

In other words, whether you view this as a policy problem or not, it is definitely an access to justice problem.

At the recent Canadian Bar Association in Saskatoon Chief Justice McLachlin reiterated her oft - noted position that access to justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these Justice McLachlin reiterated her oft - noted position that access to justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these issues.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to have credibility:

Alternative legal services are positioning themselves as part of the solution to the access to justice problem.

While many talk about access to justice issues, Bauman shook up the legal community when he warned these problems could be «potentially fatal to our profession as we know it.»

He does acknowledge freely that access to justice is as much a problem in the UK as it is in the US.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

This concept of access to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewaccess to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viejustice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

In my specialized roles as a limited retainer lawyer and as a legal research professional, I have an insight into a problem that has long posed a challenge to the legal community: access to justice for those who can not afford to retain a lawyer to take full carriage of a file.

The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, has also said the country has a «serious problem» with access to justice and that society will fragment without access to justice, as reported by Legal Voice.

Lack of A2J Threatens Us All Reason number 5: we frankly have an embarrassing access to justice problem and while we can continue to ignore it, we have some responsibility to our profession and to the public, who has extended to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections.

Not only was this a manifestation of injustice in itself, but it also raised major political economy problems in terms of the commitment of middle income earners to supporting a legal aid system of which they were never beneficiaries but only contributors as taxpayers, even while they faced similar denials of access to justice themselves.

As a lawyer who has worked in small claims courts, my clients need for affordable access to justice is a problem I have struggled with.

Should access to justice strategies be designed to challenge barriers that prevent individuals from participating in current dispute resolution mechanisms and to create real opportunities for those individuals (as well others) to seek resolution to a justiciable problem?

See: Ken Chasse, Access to Justice - Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services - CanLII as the Necessary Support Service; and a much shorter Slaw blog version, CanLII as the Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem, Oct. 24, 2013.

In order to give manageable form to the issue, the problem of limited access to justice is often deconstructed and then approached again as a problem of limited access to legal services.

Ultimately, I am not sure whether these decisions will assist in enhancing access to justice for family law litigants; but, I am hopeful that as a consequence, at least some will pause to reflect for a moment or two on the problems that continue to arise as demand for judicial and court resources increasingly exceeds supply.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to... [more]

To the extent that it is correct to say (as some here have said) that access to justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.&raquTo the extent that it is correct to say (as some here have said) that access to justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.&raquto say (as some here have said) that access to justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.&raquto justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.&raquto these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.&raquto undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.»

Nicole's current research explores how design thinking may be used to address complex or «wicked» problems such as access to justice.

As the Supreme Court has shown with the already - established Texas Access to Justice Commission (which focuses on the poorer legal aid client population), it does not simply throw commissions at problems.

Sebastian Ko, Regional Director and Senior Legal Counsel of integrated legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring about transformational change and solve long unresolved problems in the law, such as access to justice.

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:

The program sets out a definition of access to justice as existing «when the public can understand and use information and services in a timely and affordable way to prevent and resolve their legal problems and to achieve just outcomes.»

The Vancouver Sun recently described the issue of insufficient access to justice in British Columbia as a «fast - approaching cliff» and urged the Law Society of British Columbia to lead efforts to address the problem.

And of course, it's their business and they're entitled to run it as they see fit and given our access to justice problem, anything that results in more efficient legal services and lower prices to consumers of legal services can be seen as a win.

«It's a good opportunity to contribute to the community and fill a need, and there is a growing issue in our profession about access to justice and so it is a way to help with that problem as well,» he says.

I have written before about Parker, in his role as director of the LawX Lab at BYU Law School, a legal design lab in which law students design a solution to an access - to - justice problem.

Lack of access to justice represents a problem where the very legitimacy of the legal system as a way for all Canadians to resolve disputes is at stake.

An outspoken critic of the systemic bias against pro se litigants, she is a key member of the team that created LegalYou as the answer to the staggering access to justice problem that has plagued middle and lower income families.

The Access to Justice Problem is so big that we need as much diversity and as much intellectual capital as we can muster.

This approach recognizes that factors external to the law can make the law inaccessible, and that problems that are framed as legal may really be caused by other societal problems such as lack of economic resources, education, healthcare or employment: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

The inability of the vast majority of individuals and small businesses to secure legal representation due to lack of access and high cost is an acute problem often referred to as «the access to justice crisis.»