Sentences with phrase «at improving access to justice»

To that end, the Review makes recommendations aimed at improving access to justice and the enforcement of awards.

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In the light of the above, the course aims at adopting a right - based approach to improve the inclusivity and provide comprehensive access to justice for PWDs, either as direct or indirect participants and whether as victims of crime, suspects, witnesses, plaintiffs, defendants, appellants, remand prisoners and / or prison inmates.

Similarly, JUSTICE's 2015 Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term&JUSTICE's 2015 Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term&Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term».

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.

Her desire to help improve access to justice led her to spend a summer working at a legal aid clinic in Iqaluit assisting indigenous clients as they navigated the justice system.

Raising the small claims cap is not the only mechanisms available (the Supreme Court in BC has «Fast Track» simplified procedures for claims under $ 100k), but I can see how a higher limit improves access to justice in at least three ways: 1.

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission was created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the request of the State Bar of Wisconsin to aid the courts in improving the administration of jJustice Commission was created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the request of the State Bar of Wisconsin to aid the courts in improving the administration of justicejustice.

Earlier this month the Department of Justice Canada announced funding for projects that will help families deal with difficult issues related to divorce or separation with funding aimed at improving access to the family justice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or sepaJustice Canada announced funding for projects that will help families deal with difficult issues related to divorce or separation with funding aimed at improving access to the family justice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or sepajustice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or separation.

The aim of this innovation project is to cut annual spending by # 250m and staff by 40 %, while at the same time improving access to Justice, as well as the speed and quality of service delivery (e.g. by the use of online forms for petitions).

In a comment to the recent post by Patricia Hughes, Justice B. T. Granger of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice referred to a set of slides for a presentation he had given at the 2008 CBA Canadian Legal Conference in Quebec City entitled «The Future is Now: Improving Access to Justice: The Need for Lawyers and the Judiciary to Go Electronic.»

Our purpose is to promote access to justice for all Ontarians, preserve and improve the civil justice system, and advocate for the rights of those who have suffered injury and losses as the result of wrongdoing by others, while at the same time advocating strongly for safety initiatives.

The views of Alberta legal professionals on important current issues in family law favour change and improving access to justice to a greater degree than those of their counterparts in the rest of Canada and are surprisingly at odds with Alberta's generally conservative social values.

At Stanford's Code X, speaker Jim Sandman of Legal Services Corporation promoted the use of technology in the legal industry in 10 ways: Focus on courts and administrators to improve access to justice.

I know from my own personal experience that there are lots of things that lawyers can do to improve access to justice that don't need to wait for new rules of court, overhauled legislation, new triage processes and new social programs, that don't need to wait for the approval of the law society, government or the bench, that can be implemented now, at little or no cost to the individual lawyer.

Five lawyers and trainees at Howard Kennedy — Anastasia Demetriou, Adam Fellows, Ajay Prithwi, Nikita Sellers and Phoebe Morris — are proposing Avattorney, a virtual reality lawyer service intended to be accessible to all, improving access to justice for clients and work / life balance for lawyers.

In this note, I will propose two hearing processes aimed at improving efficiencies of time and cost, and increasing access to justice, in cases where: one or both parties are without counsel; and, all parties are represented.

Tune into Pro Bono Institute's newest podcast «CLO and Pro Bono Series» and listen to chief legal officers of Corporate Pro Bono Challenge ® signatories discuss the pro bono efforts at their departments and how they are working to improve access to justice.

An Edinburgh - based legal tech start - up is looking for law firms and social sector organisations that want to put into action a new generation of chat bots aimed at helping clients and improving access to justice.

The Society is engaged in similar dialogue at the national level, through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is working to improve access to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Maaccess to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family MaAccess to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

A collection of essays about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth bijustice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth biJustice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.

The Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School works with judges, legal professionals, governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve access to justice in an effort to eliminate violence against women andJustice at Cornell Law School works with judges, legal professionals, governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve access to justice in an effort to eliminate violence against women andjustice in an effort to eliminate violence against women and girls.

And John's comment that «we lay awake at night worrying about our client's cases; we have a unique view as long as we pay attention» emphasizes the need for technology to improve the efficiency and increase access to justice.

Brown will spend the next year in residence at Microsoft Headquarters in Seattle, Washington leading the development of legal technology projects that aim to increase access to justice and improve the practice of law as a whole.

The Center for Access to Justice & Technology at IIT Chicago - Kent was established to develop Internet resources to improve access to juAccess to Justice & Technology at IIT Chicago - Kent was established to develop Internet resources to improve access to jJustice & Technology at IIT Chicago - Kent was established to develop Internet resources to improve access to juaccess to justicejustice.

CPBO's CLO & Pro Bono Podcast series is a collection of insightful discussions with chief legal officers of Corporate Pro Bono Challenge ® signatories about the pro bono efforts at their departments and how they are working to improve access to justice.

At the intersection of access to justice and innovation, ATJ Tech Fellows will spend their summer working on innovative projects and initiatives aimed to improve our civil justice system.

Alan Macek, an intellectual property lawyer at Dimock Stratton LLP, points out that the federal courts also hear immigration and citizenship cases where the tariff - based system offers predictable costs for individual litigants and improves access to justice.

Margaret Hagan's d.school at Stanford University is a case in point — dedicated to «marrying legal expertise with design thinking to help people better understand the law and improve access to justice,» the project has already created more than 10 apps, including Law School Dojo, which use quizzes to help users gain a better grasp of the law and the GRE respectively.

February 21, 2017 — «The Law Foundation of Ontario has issued grants to the Winkler Institute at Osgoode Hall Law School and Ryerson University's Legal Innovation Zone so they can examine how technology and innovation can improve access to justice for young people.

The answers to improving access to justice are (1) greater public education which can be easily and disinterestedly (as opposed to self - serving ads by firms) delivered by the Law Society at remarkably modest cost per member, and (2) legislative amendments to the litigation process.

Professor Mayson (together with policy assistant Olivia Marley and senior policy adviser Stella Dunn) was looking at the phrase in the context of the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA 2007), which has «improving «access to justice»» as a regulatory objective.

Perhaps lawyers looking to improve «access to justice» should look at their own hourly rates as a starting point.

Her fellowship at The Women's Law Center of Maryland is dedicated to improving access to justice for survivors of sex trafficking.