Sentences with phrase «by our justice system»

Indeed there has been lots of issues with pedophile priests they should be judged by the justice system accordingly but God will call them into account and that I guarantee you will be even worse... God Bless everyone here...!
Kelly added that the status of the players with the university and the football team can be impacted by the justice system and the university's discipline.
Boot camps and DARE programmes are mandated by the justice system or schools for some children.
Our lawyers also devote their time and expertise through the Equal Justice Initiative which provides legal counsel to impoverished people who have been treated unfairly by the justice system.
The result: The technology used by our justice system and its main actors is — sometimes dangerously — out - dated.
As Lear points out, not everyone who needs legal services requires the tools provided by the justice system.
To trigger the exclusionary rule, police conduct must be sufficiently deliberate that exclusion can meaningfully deter it, and sufficiently culpable that such deterrence is worth the price paid by the justice system.
It would also drastically reduce the number of criminal convictions achieved by the justice system.
«Whether someone is prosecuted for careless or dangerous driving is often something of a lottery, as are the resulting sentences, leaving thousands of victims and their relatives feeling massively let down by the justice system's failure to reflect the seriousness of bad driving,» he said.
Mediation is a form of alternative dispute resolution that is widely embraced by the justice system and legal profession.
Our goal is to secure the full amount of money damages allowed by our justice system, including damages for past and future medical, surgical and hospital bills; lost wages and loss of earning capacity; property damage; and past and future pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life.
He defined racial profiling as over surveillance of a particular group by the Justice System than other racial groups.
The balance between procedure and access struck by our justice system must come to reflect modern reality and recognize that new models of adjudication can be fair and just....
After all, the WSBA's own Civil Legal Needs Study determined that the # 1 reason poor people had no or limited access to justice was because they did not know how to get access to justice or they did not know they had a problem that could be addressed by the justice system.
For some time now there has been an increasing trend, partly pushed for by the justice system but also recommended and encouraged by many lawyers, for mediation to be tried as part of divorce.
«Each app offers the ability to solve a particular problem for an unlimited number of parties concurrently,» he says, adding that AI has the potential to extend legal services to people who have been failed by the justice system.
Most SRLs do not have a positive experience and are frequently overwhelmed, stressed and feel unfairly treated by a justice system that is less welcoming than they had expected and hoped.
The answer is yes, but in the right circumstances — see below...... For some time now there has been an increasing trend, partly pushed for by the justice system but also recommended and encouraged by many lawyers, for mediation to be tried as part of divorce.
Failures by the justice system in dealing with criminal trials fairly, quickly and efficiently could create frustration and contempt among the public for the justice system as a whole.
As more and more students shun the practice of criminal law the real loss will be felt in short order by our justice system, and indeed the entire general public, as an atrophied defence bar steps in to fill the big shoes of those lawyers now hanging up their robes.

Not exact matches

[But] the member of the public that we are interested in maintaining confidence in the military justice system... is going to be influenced by context.»
«Secret arbitration takes away a woman's right to a trial by a jury of her peers and provides a dark alley for Uber to hide from the justice system, the media and public scrutiny,» according to the letter.
This story was reported by Maurice Chammah for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the US criminal justice system.
If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.
A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.
We must reform our criminal justice system because everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law.
While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.
Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.
If other funds remain due, these can be dealt with appropriately by the criminal justice system.
«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.
It doesn't seem like this is being driven by an ancient justice system as much as typical group dynamics amplified by religion.
kevinite The laws of the land are enforced by a Criminal Justice System that we can actually see in action.
Or a criminal justice system that frisks 85 % of blacks and Latinos stopped by police, but only 8 % of whites.
The core argument of the book seeks to reassert the role of Christianity as making a necessary contribution to the construction of ethics that underpin our society and culture, and by extension, our law - making and justice system.
Whether we place our faith in science, religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and true.
Since the earliest days of slavery, through the Jim Crow era and into the criminal justice system today, the United States has been formed by its long history of racism.
This is only fair, and returns us to the system of divine justice described in the Proverbs: the good are rewarded and the bad are punished in this life by the all - powerful Lord of human destinies.
The politicians rule us, rather than represent us, and the justice system has been replaced by a legal system wherein the judges and lawyers play games at the expense of the taxpayers.
Similarly, African Americans who are abused by the system should fight for justice.
No criminal justice system in the history of the Human race, even those established by the most despotic of tyrants, comes close to matching the unfathomable barbarity of this «infinitely benevolent» god.
By 1976 LEAA had poured close to $ 5 billion into the nation's criminal - justice system, with no measurable effect on crime rates.
No criminal justice system in the history of the Human race, even those established by the most despotic of tyrants, comes close to matching the unfathomable barbarity of your «infinitely benevolent» god.
Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5
The fact is, people are judged on a daily bases by other people, thus the justice system.
Zehr begins by observing that victims are routinely ignored in the criminal - justice system.
After we see what the biblical foundations are, the primary matters to examine will be the Christian view of property, work and vocation, and some principles of economic justice by which a Christian may be guided amid current conflicting systems.
The paradox of a declining sense of moral obligation, together with a heightened sense of distributive justice, may be partially explained by observing that both phenomena reflect the influence of the last remaining element of the common value system: individual freedom.
There is also a difference between social stability based on social status sustained by a double standard legal system and and social stability based on equal justice for all.
Protesting an occasion when the criminal justice system worked (a suspect was quickly identified and apprehended, and will go to trial) seems misguided, if we seek justice for those who have been failed by the criminal justice system.
Indeed, even one of the worthies quoted on the back cover has got it wrong: Wilson does not argue that «the criminal justice system has become a kind of theater of the absurd» with murder «explained away by arguments like having a bad day.»
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