Sentences with phrase «based civil justice reform»
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The work of the committee will be managed on a daily basis by a special adviser to Mr. Gonzalez, Jill Harris, who has spent her career working for criminal justice reform at groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Drug Policy Alliance.
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A Civil Justice Council report has made 45 recommendations designed to increase the uptake of damages - based agreements, a key part of the Jackson reforms but whose use has been limited.
After well over nine months, enough has been said and written about the Jackson reforms but little if any attention has been given to what now seems to be a clear picture of the driving force behind these changes: civil justice for personal injury claimants is to be rationed, based upon the simple value of the claim rather than its substantive merits.
For example, mandatory court - based mediation rules, judicial dispute resolution initiatives, case management regimes, pre-trial conferences, and cost - based settlement incentives have all become central pillars of the modern civil justice system and its reform.
This report, which was undertaken by a sub-committee of the Council's Administration of Justice Committee, is based on records developed at its request for the new Inventory of Reforms created by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (http://cfcj-fcjc.org/inventory/).
In introducing the governor to a gathering of some 200 or so state - based tort - reform activists from across the country, ATRA members, law professors and other civil justice experts, ATRA president Tiger Joyce noted that, «Gov. Walker campaigned on the need for key civil justice reforms in his state as a means to improving the climate for business, growing the economy and creating new jobs.
The Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School describes the American Tort Reform Association (which is affiliated to the Foundation) this way: «The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) is a Washington - DC - based group that was formed in 1986 to represent hundreds of U.S. and foreign corporations in their bid to overhaul civil liability laws at the state and national levels....