Sentences with phrase «better access to justice»

The RAP outlines real and practical measures to achieve reconciliation, build stronger relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients with better access to justice and the family law system through tailored services and procedures.

Bar associations can play a major role helping or hindering the growth of the self - help law movement, and shlep hopes to cover developments within the organized bar that relate to achieving better access to justice and legal services for all Americans through self - help resources.

The accused has better access to justice through the CMO as it is less confusing and intimidating than a courtroom with resources dedicated to explaining the current status of their matter and the necessary next steps.

The Supreme Court of Canada has recently promoted better access to justice through summary judgment, partial summary judgment, and summary trials.

In her speech, she called on governments, academics, judges and lawyers to work to ensure better access to justice for all Canadians.

I do not know that tribunals will provide better access to justice than the system under which we operate.

Collaborators will use the information they have to press government and other agencies to work together to provide better access to justice.

The Ontario government's newly released plan to make automobile insurance more affordable should also include better access to justice, Toronto personal injury... Read more

In all of these instances, increasing quality and decreasing costs leads to better access to justice.

JENA MCGILL, Better access to justice in Canada?

Panellists from the Global Pound Conference series event which took place in Hong Kong, shared their views on promoting better access to justice in Hong Kong and the need for all stakeholders in Hong Kong to work towards combining processes and combining them effectively.

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All contributions play an important role in building a clinic and a community dedicated to ensuring women receive better access to justice.

Kristensen v. Schisler is another decision on the heels of Hryniak v. Mauldin, the Supreme Court case promoting better access to justice through summary judgment.

A recent Globe and Mail article by University of Ottawa law professor Jena McGill, for example, bore the headline «Better access to justice in Canada?

This version of the future would offer both better access to justice and a new pile of work to keep lawyers busy.

Even if it does, silver linings may be found in better access to justice via intelligent machines, and a renewed focus of human lawyers on expanding access to justice.

Necessity being the mother of invention, an increasing need for better access to justice and the means for delivering it means that your home computer, laptop, or mobile device can serve as the place where disputes are resolved.

We know many people work in different sectors with regards to providing better access to justice, and there's a strong range of nominees, so it's hard to choose,» she says.

Missing in law society discussions is the fact that outside investment has an excellent chance of creating better access to justice through greater investment in process and technology that in turn will lower prices for the average Canadian.

The Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice committee has set some aggressive targets for the next decade and beyond to ensure those who need it have better access to justice.

Dear Santa, We know how busy you are, so we thought that one letter from the diverse collective of friends and supporters of the NSRLP would save you some time this season, since ultimately we all wish for the same outcome — better access to justice in Canada.

Customers will benefit from a price drop and a better access to justice.

Alarie: feedback for the algorithm, conversation between all players involved; data, time, learning from new cases; learn to trust the algorithms; mistake to rush to acceptance but also to ignore these technologies; co-evolution; pay off more transparency, better access to justice, consistency, validating, becomes a public utility?

Quite a few individual lawyers who work harder and make less money than others, because they want better access to justice and are willing to make sacrifices to advance that goal, are the praiseworthy exceptions.

Not exact matches

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of four defendants, two Russian intelligence officers and two state - sponsored hackers, for the theft of Yahoo user data in late 2014, as well as cookie forging to obtain access to user accounts on our network in 2015 and 2016.

The Tories have undermined access to justice for too long, something we have seen in family law as well.

Governor Ambode said experience over the years has shown that societies with equal and unhindered access to justice have a better environment for economic growth and poverty alleviation than those that do not.

It would be recalled that similar orders had been made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High as well as Justice Baba Yusuf of an Abuja High Court for the same purposes due to complaints of denial of access to lawyers by Dasuki even after all of them had granted him bail.

In December 2004, High Court judge Mr Justice Collins ruled that there was «no good reason» to restrict access to books for prisoners.

For this not to happen, and for there to be sustainable peace as well as credible progress against poverty before 2030, then what needs to be in place are «responsive and legitimate institutions» that «encourage the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice, access to justice, and accountable government and public institutions» (UN-High-Level-Panel, 2013: 9).

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

Gibb said: «As part of our commitment to social justice, we are restoring rigour to the curriculum so all young people, irrespective of background, have access to an excellent, well - rounded education.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

One such school, Judith Kaye High School, exclusively supports students within the legal justice system where students are given access to free mental health services and the ability to obtain not only a high school diploma, but trade certificates as well (Zimmer & Weaver, 2017).

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As for environmental justice, Democrats «will work to expand access to cost - saving renewable energy by low - income households, create good - paying jobs in communities that have struggled with energy poverty, and oppose efforts by utilities to limit consumer choice or slow clean energy deployment.»

From the perspective of someone on the other side of the «digital divide», every dollar spent on digital access to justice projects might very well be a dollar taken away from other projects that could serve them better.

Whether one is selling beans or access to justice, a simple picture of the product is not good enough — if indeed it ever was.

Companies like LexShares will likely continue to fill the access to justice gap, but only time will tell if they are forces for good or evil.

After all, we would argue that being able to read at an advanced level, or having access to a lawyer are far greater advantages than access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic with regard to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.

The Chief Justice's speech in Calgary, which I mentioned here last week, illustrated that despite all of our efforts to address access to justice the problem is getting worse, not Justice's speech in Calgary, which I mentioned here last week, illustrated that despite all of our efforts to address access to justice the problem is getting worse, not justice the problem is getting worse, not better:

In Briggs LJ's estimation, according to his Interim Report, the OC «offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources».

The linked article takes note of the fact, as will all of you, that there is a potential for abuse here: if good people can scrape databases for noble access - to - justice reasons, bad bottom - feeders can scrape those same databases to sell people expensive services they do not need.

Speedy resolution is not only better for the parties (and not just in family law disputes) but it also increases access to justice, because more disputes get resolved better at less cost per dispute.

Working in small groups, we brainstormed the obstacles to access to justice and ways to provide better supports to those... [more]

If we are serious about access to justice, then we must do a better job of providing public access to legal information and legal information services.

Access to justice continues to be a significant issue for Canadian lawyers and the public, and for good reason.

You claim that «the duty to advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, as well as to undertake measures to facilitate access to justice and protect the public interest, is also synonymous with a duty to «promote».

«Our new areas of jurisdiction represent a strong vote of confidence from the provincial government as well as an opportunity to significantly increase access to justice for those injured in motor vehicle accidents in British Columbia,» she said.