Sentences with phrase «better provide access to justice»

Linkilaw helps all pre Series - B startups with their legal needs and was built out of the admirable desire to better provide access to justice.

Not exact matches

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».

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.

However, Kalajdzic points out that technological innovation is occurring within the industry absent ABSs and that «such technology can at best be described as providing limited improvements to access to justice,» as it is not a replacement for face - to - face legal services provided by an attorney.

The Centre provides access to justice through student training, through looking at the culture of legal services and how doing good fits into it.

«You can use your bot to save money within your business, provide a better experience to clients or improve access to justice,» he writes.

Sam Glover: Well, I suppose I've fallen into the trap that I often accuse other of, which is conflating access to justice with providing legal services to the poorest of the poor, which is really a foundational question, but it's really just one piece of the access to justice puzzle.

The «prove it first» approach, presupposes that the current arrangement is already the very best way to provide legal services and the very best way to provide access to justice.

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.

«In my view it offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources,» wrote Lord Justice justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources,» wrote Lord Justice Justice Briggs.

As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.

The problem with access to justice is a function of the existing regulatory framework, which ABS doesn't change — namely that legal services must be provided by lawyers who, in order to become lawyers, must be highly skilled people (in order to jump through the hoops to become lawyers), and who typically have high reservation wages (i.e., they don't need to be lawyers, they could get good jobs in other fields).

The Canadian Bar Association's Envisioning Equal Justice consultation paper, Underexplored Alternatives for the Middle Class, recognizes the need to «re-engineer» dispute resolution processes and explores a number of court process reforms as potential means to provide better access to judicial dispute resolution.

Our organization exists to promote a better understanding of the law for all and to support access to justice for those who for any reason, represent themselves in legal matters by providing coaching, appropriate encouragement, legal information, referrals or other resources to those people

Though they may be providing access to justice services and supports for different reasons (whether for profit, for the public good or as a public service more generally) the resulting innovations show great promise to enhance access to justice and reduce gaps.

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.

While all of these approaches have a place on the continuum of access to justice, they can never come close to fully substituting for the legal services good lawyers provide.

Those who wish to apply should have an idea that bridges the access - to - justice gap in the U.S.; utilizes technology to deal with a vital legal need; designs or builds a more effective way of delivering legal services; provides the public with easier access to legal information; reduces the backlog of cases in various courts throughout the country; creates tools that allow lawyers to better represent their clients; or helps pro se litigants represent themselves more effectively.

We are proud to provide professional opportunities and resources for black students, as well as a forum for formal and informal discussions about many subjects, including legal policy issues, effective career strategies, evolutions in substantive law, and access to justice for marginalized groups.

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

The Equal Access to Justice Act, which provides for fees when a litigant prevails in an action brought by the United States and Section 1988, which provides for fees for prevailing parties in civil rights actions are two of the best known federal fee - shifting statutes.

«The Settlement Agreement in the case at bar has undergone the court's scrutiny, and it appears to me that in entering into the Settlement Agreement and in seeking certification on consent for settlement purposes, the plaintiffs and the defendants, with the assistance of their legal counsel, have provided the social good of access to justice and adequate compensation in accordance with Canadian law for perhaps thousands of citizens who may have been harmed by the Listeriosis outbreak and who decide not to opt - out of the settlement, which remains the individual choice of class members.»

Chris believes passionately in providing access to justice for marginalized and disenfranchised people as well as educating law students on the values of poverty law work and community engagement.

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

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.

Well - trained intermediaries are key to providing broad - based access to justice, serving as a point of first contact to provide basic information, appropriate referrals and to ensure efficient use of more specialized legal resources by potentially reducing the demands upon those resources.

The federation's model code of conduct states: «As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.»

Also in Victoria a media tool (in CD form) developed by the Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative in partnership with the Grampians Regional Area Justice Advisory Council (RAJAC) aims to provide Indigenous prisoners in that State with information about programs and services they can access pre and post release, as well as information about their rights as prisoners.

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.

The Victorian Department of Justice suggests that the Tribunal's Register could be better utilised and provide access to greater levels of information if s 199B was amended to broaden the list of details that must be included on the Tribunal's Register.