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Steps to Justice recently launched by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) with input from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice, the Social Justice Tribunals of Ontario, Legal Aid Ontario, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario.
Co-sponsored by Community Legal Services and the Maricopa County Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers Program makes it possible for attorneys to provide a few hours of service or advice regarding civil law matters.
Since 2006, LASOC has been contracting with private attorneys to supplement staff attorney time at the Compton Self - Help Legal Access Center, which is operated by Community Legal Services.
The Brantford event was part of a series of outreach days supported by community Legal Aid clinics — including Injured Workers Consultants and IAVGO.
The BC Human Rights Clinic is operated by the Community Legal Assistance Society and funded by the BC Ministry of Justice.
35 -LSB-...] when, as in this case, a European institution has a wide discretion, the guarantees conferred by the Community legal order in administrative procedures is of an even more fundamental relevance.
British Columbia is considered the most regressive jurisdiction in Canada for mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment, with many practices violating individual human rights, according to a report released by the Community Legal Assistance Society of B.C.
She has served on the Land Acquisitions Committee of Habitat for Humanity and has been honored for her legal work on behalf of veterans by Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida.
Kent related this story to stress the importance of upcoming quarterly workshops that are planned by Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida in a partnership with the city.
According to the British Columbia Human Rights Clinic, operated by the Community Legal Assistance Society, more pregnant women are seeking help in fighting discrimination cases before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
Thanks for drawing attention to this valuable research done by Community Legal Education Ontario.
Site by the Community Legal Assistance Society.
Individuals who face employment barriers due to criminal history can learn the requirements to seal or expunge their criminal records during an informational presentation by Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida attorneys.

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The program hosts an annual four - month, 100 - hour intensive that facilitates participants» transition from informal to formal cannabis operations by providing training and mentorship in partnership with the mainstream Oakland cannabis legal and business community.
In adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug war.
The Trans Mountain expansion of Kinder Morgan Canada, majority owned by Houston - based Kinder Morgan (kmi), touches the lands of more than 100 aboriginal communities, some of which have launched legal challenges.
Some formally declare their commitment to all stakeholders — owners, employees, the community, and the environment — by becoming «benefit corporations,» a new legal designation.
We should no longer be surprised by reports of J.P. Morgan's (JPM) latest settlement, in which it may admit some guilt and burn through shareholder and stakeholder cash to the tune of $ 800 million or more but ultimately leave any one with influence in the business or legal communities untouched.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday recreational cannabis use will be legal by summer, despite calls by some senators to put off legalization by up to a year to allow for further consultation with Indigenous communities.
By the early 1930s, Compton notes, a significant portion of the legal community had decided that traditional constitutional protections of economic rights were legal relics.
Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.
If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.
Such legal decisions were, after all, made by fallible men and the community can revise them in the light of the Qur» an and the Hadith.
Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.
There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.
At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.
The British also solidified the separation between religious communities by making the personal law (civil code) of each community legal.
Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»
This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.
RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.
And in an Indian situation where baptism is the legal mark of change of one religious community to another, each with its own civil codes recognized by the Courts, communalisation of church life is imposed by Law and perverts the meaning of baptism as sacrament of faith.
The temple was no longer theirs; they were denied the sacrifices; they were outlawed from both cult and legal system; they were expelled from the synagogue and regarded as aliens by the Jewish community.
Promoted most prominently by the Community Environment Legal Defense Fund, the laws center around «the rights of people, natural communities, and ecosystems to exist, regenerate and flourish»» in essence, a «right to life for nature.»
The treaty seeks not only to confer power to corporations at the expense of governments and communities, but also to secure such power by providing a new and unique avenue for legal redress.
You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.
On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....
Several prominent writers, including Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, rightfully challenged this recent legal decision by a local German court in Cologne, which would effectively criminalize ritual circumcision for infant males as an exercise of religious freedom for minority religious communities in the country.
«Tourist destinations across the country are often threatened by mega-chain hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores, because they have the unintended effect of wiping away so much of what makes a community unique,» stated Paul Menta, co-owner of Key West Legal Rum and Executive Chef at The Stoned Crab.
To be an essential resource for the community by providing free or heavily subsidized services in critical areas such as health, legal aid and senior support
And the reason for that is the reproductive medical world has really progressed by leaps and bounds and the legal, ethical and psychological community — we're just trying to play catch up.
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As an expert witness myself, I've questioned while working on legal cases within the community, who would be my peer support if I were to face some sort of persecution within my practice by an unfamiliar or hostile adversary?
Stefanie's unique approach and application of Trust and Estate law has been well acknowledged by the legal community.
[Mike was going to raise the following issues, but most were covered by a speaker from ACTARES and another speaker: There are people taking legal action to stop Nestlé taking water from their communities.
Where and when it is implied that it is not the parent's right, this overreach must be challenged at every level, by moral, legal, scientific, and political communities and their constituencies.
Our Director, Ellen Trachman, was honored as 2017 Legal Volunteer of the Year by The GLBT Community Center of Colorado and named 2015 Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by the Colorado LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce.
Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.
It is important to understand that parental alienation syndrome has not been recognized by the medical or psychological community and has also been criticized on legal grounds.
Yes, public nudity is legal in many countries, but it varies by community dependent upon what is considered indecent exposure.
This status is a far - reaching legal acknowledgment of the intimate relationship between two people, a relationship deemed by the State worthy of dignity in the community equal with all other marriages.
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