Sentences with phrase «better access to the justice system»

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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).

Such egregious statements by a sitting judge have broad repercussions, threatening survivors» access to the equal protection of the law and undermining women's equality, as well as the public's trust in our justice system.

In addition to volunteer legal assistance at the centers, the Hawaii State Judiciary has also partnered with the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Public Library System to make self - help interactive court forms software available at the Self - Help Centers and Access to Justice Rooms and public libraries across the state as well as online.

The Justice Index describes itself as «a snapshot of the degree to which best practices for ensuring access to the civil and criminal justice systems have been adopted across the country.Justice Index describes itself as «a snapshot of the degree to which best practices for ensuring access to the civil and criminal justice systems have been adopted across the country.justice systems have been adopted across the country.»

The best news of the year is that it's almost impossible to discuss our judicial system without mentioning access to justice.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

Whether it is improving the delivery of legal services, the justice system, lawyer efficiency, legal education, or access to justice for all, Theory and Principle works with clients who are moved to innovate and build to create a better system.

The report, which has been shared with Attorney General David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, as well as the opposition critics, proposes overarching areas of proposed justice system reforms categorized into 10 main areas of law and policy, including but not limited to: policing, access to justice, family law, corrections, human rights, mental illness and addiction, poverty and income inequality, and government compliance with outstanding legal protections.

While rooted in the very best of intentions, this standard approach to justice reform fails to consider the opinions and suggestions of the only people who can speak fully to the severity of the access to justice crisis — the people who sought to resolve their legal problems through the justice system and who failed somewhere along the way.

Teams participating in the hackathon can develop solutions directed either to a private benefit that would address the business and practice of law or a public benefit relating to good government, legal systems, and access to justice.

This is better for the clients» opportunity to access justice and it may very well be better for the system as a whole.

Your analogy to fees being based on good character investigations and demands on the system is weak because such a system would not necessarily contribute to the access to justice crisis.

Participants will be invited to design various tools to support online courts — for example, tools to help litigants structure their legal arguments, organise their documents, negotiate settlements without advisers, improve access to legal advice as well as systems that will promote open justice and even machine learning solutions that will help analyse all the data generated by the online courts.

They include demographic shifts, like the aging of the profession and depopulation of rural lawyers; disruptions, like advances in technology and competition from non-legal entities; and a well - documented crisis of access to legal services and the justice system.

In my opinion, a good regulator needs to start with a clear set of regulatory objectives, and needs to design a regulatory system that meets those objectives; objectives such as maintaining rule of law, access to justice, assuring consumer outcomes, promotion of competition.

In addition to the economic, social and cultural situation described above, the historical distrust of the Aboriginal community against the police and the justice system, as well as perceived racism and discrimination within the State party's institutions, create further barriers for Aboriginal women to access justice.

All members of the legal profession, as part of our commitment to the rule of law, should be concerned about the manifest inadequacies of the legal aid system, and work for a better way of promoting access to justice.

The Commission recognized the need for effective access to enforcement processes, stating «Even the best laws are mere paper tigers if poor people can not use the justice system to give them teeth.»

The Florida State Courts System, in conjunction with the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice, offers both a self - help website as well as the Florida Courts HELP App to provide information for people seeking a divorce, adoption, orders of protection, name change, and other family law issues.

We engage in active legislation campaigns to make it easier for those convicted innocent to access the courts, to improve criminal justice systems, and to better exonerees» transitions after release.

Families in difficulty deserve access to the best justice system that we can devise.»

By hosting a series of Hackathons, think tanks, and building sessions focused on solving legal issues through technology know - how and entrepreneurial, socially - focused action, Tech For Justice seeks to incentivize some of our best minds to help solve pressing issues related to the U.S. legal system, namely that all are able to access its resources.

Topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, using new technologies and good corporate citizenry.

October 19, 2016 — «Judges from along the Eastern seaboard convene at Fordham University School of Law Wednesday night for a discussion on the intersection between civil and criminal access to justice and how to better handle the overlapping deficiencies in both systems.

In fact, the logic of the Court's access right extends even beyond the confines of the criminal justice system to encompass proceedings held on the civil side of the docket as well.

Whether it is improving the delivery of legal services, the justice system, lawyer efficiency, legal education, or access to justice for all, we work with clients who are moved to innovate and build to create a better system.

As regular readers of our column are well aware, the Cyberjustice Laboratory is a creative think - tank whose aim is to improve access to justice problems that plague the judicial system.

Meanwhile, keep an eye out for Part 3 of this series of blogs that will highlight the second chapter of the report, which examines the pros and cons of the current legal system as well as the access to justice issues that plague it.

Instead of there being a drive to cut costs at the expense of access to justice, the government would be better to focus on streamlining the systems in place to generate efficiencies, without hindering people's ability to bring valid claims.

Participants explored the justice system from the «user» perspective and approach access to justice as a hands - on design challenge — they gathered the information needed on how the justice system works, imagined how best to respond to the gaps and weaknesses of the current system, and had to develop a prototype that will improve it.

Plenary and workshop topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, and good corporate citizenry.

It is therefore difficult to imagine a system that combines all of these elements, as well as low fees (another necessary component of actual access to justice), outside of state funded ODR initiatives.

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

The calls to action are instead geared toward developing justice system innovations and applying direct and indirect political pressure on governments to better facilitate if not provide equal access to justice by 2030.

In addition to providing information and training, the ministry has launched several recent initiatives that aim to increase the access to and efficiency of the justice system and to make changes that allow it to better deal with social outliers like the homeless and people dealing with mental health and / or substance abuse problems.

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.