Sentences with phrase «civil justice gap»

The term «civil justice gap,» has long been employed to highlight the reality that the poorest and most vulnerable persons have tremendous difficulty accessing legal services.

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For low - income and minority students, this gap has negative implications for the cause of social justice and civil rights.

The priorities and language of reformers — achievement gaps, no - excuses schools, social justice, and the «civil rights issue of our generation «-- betrays a focus on fixing schools attended by urban, low - income families of color.

In response to his comments, over 50 California - based civil rights, social justice, and education organizations signed the letter below urging the Governor to continue the state's commitment to equity by not just narrowing, but closing the achievement and opportunity gaps, continuing the work of the Local Control Funding Formula, and supporting a strong accountability system.

The 2017 Justice Gap Report from LSC found that «86 percent of the civil legal problems reported by low - income Americans received inadequate or no legal help.»

That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions, debt collections, foreclosures — even lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly, with both sides of a dispute having access to an attorney.

First, the Court and proponents of the LLLT program stated that, based on the Civil Legal Needs Study findings, the high cost of lawyers is the primary cause of the justice gap.

IOLTA, or Interest on Lawyer's Trust Accounts, is a system that generates funds that go to addressing gaps in access to justice and serving civil legal aid programs.

In her 2012 testimony before the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York, District Attorney Kathleen Rice described the link between the civil access to justice gap and public safety in this maCivil Legal Services in New York, District Attorney Kathleen Rice described the link between the civil access to justice gap and public safety in this macivil access to justice gap and public safety in this manner:

The state is facing two challenges in closing the justice gap, said James Bamberger, director of the state Office of Civil Legal Need.

The Justice Gap released in June 2017 by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) statistics tell us that 86 % of low - income Americans can not access civil jJustice Gap released in June 2017 by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) statistics tell us that 86 % of low - income Americans can not access civil justicejustice.

Consequently, as we enter the Bribery Act enforcement era with expanded corporate criminal liability and a new corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery, the trend to civil recovery is likely to be short lived and viewed as a pragmatic «stop gap» response to apparent deficiencies in the criminal justice architecture rather than as a long term enforcement trend in settling overseas corruption cases involving companies.

The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans https://www.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/images/TheJusticeGap-FullReport.pdf

The recently released report from the Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans, includes notable findings regarding the legal needs of veterans.

Compiled by the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School, the Justice Index 2016 paints a dramatic picture of the nation's justice gap, including the finding that there is less than one civil legal aid attorney for every 10,000 poor people in the United Justice at Cardozo Law School, the Justice Index 2016 paints a dramatic picture of the nation's justice gap, including the finding that there is less than one civil legal aid attorney for every 10,000 poor people in the United Justice Index 2016 paints a dramatic picture of the nation's justice gap, including the finding that there is less than one civil legal aid attorney for every 10,000 poor people in the United justice gap, including the finding that there is less than one civil legal aid attorney for every 10,000 poor people in the United States.

The 2017 Justice Gap Report of the Legal Services Corp. found that 86 percent of the civil legal problems reported by low - income Americans received inadequate or no legal help.

The US Legal Services Corporation has released Documenting the Justice Gap in America: The Current Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans.

Contrast what the Supreme Court of Texas presumably learned back in June, 2017 from a report by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), «The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans.»

Those recommendations include «The Court should form a standing committee to maintain accountability for closing the justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.»

He says disputes will arise from the 2014 global oil price drop which had a major impact on Angola's economy, and remains pessimistic about the civil justice system's ability to cope, but sees a window for arbitration to fill the gap:

Technology can be a powerful tool in narrowing the justice gap — the difference between the unmet need for civil legal services and the resources available to meet that need.

The LSC has found through its experience with its Technology Initiative Grant program that technology can be a powerful tool in narrowing the justice gap — the difference between the unmet need for civil legal services and the resources available to meet that need.

The 2003 Washington Civil Legal Needs Study told us that the access to justice gap is primarily caused by the fact that people do not even know they have a legal problem for which there is available help or where to access that help.

The most recent Legal Services Corporation report, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans, found that not only do low - income American citizens receive inadequate or no legal help for 86 % of their civil legal problems but over 71 % of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans, found that not only do low - income American citizens receive inadequate or no legal help for 86 % of their civil legal problems but over 71 % of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past civil legal problems but over 71 % of these households had at least one civil legal problem in the past civil legal problem in the past year.

In 2013, the Action Committee published Access to Civil & Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change, which contains 9 Justice Development Goals that, if accomplished, will help to address the large and growing access to justice gap in Justice: A Roadmap for Change, which contains 9 Justice Development Goals that, if accomplished, will help to address the large and growing access to justice gap in Justice Development Goals that, if accomplished, will help to address the large and growing access to justice gap in justice gap in Canada.

Notably, the Legal Services Corporation recently issued a report entitled The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - income Americans.

Few would dispute that technology is one of the keys to addressing the justice gap — the difference between the need for civil legal services among low - income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs.

The results of the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Update have identified an alarming and growing «justice gap» among low - income Washingtonians.

OnlineTNJustice.org allows Tennessee's attorneys to close the justice gap and help more people solve their civil legal problems.

The «justice gap» in the United States — the discrepancy between the civil legal needs of low - income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs — is vast, and growing every day.

We are committed to bridging the justice gap by serving as the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low - income Americans in the nation.

«The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans,» Legal Services Corporation (June 2017)

Speaker John Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation, will unpack the data from LSC's 2017 report: The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low - Income Americans.

It includes recommendations to increase the availability of programs to divert people living with mental health problems and illnesses from the corrections system, provide appropriate mental health services in the youth and adult criminal justice system and ensuring that comprehensive discharge plans are in place, address gaps in treatment programs for offenders with serious and complex mental health needs, increase the role of the «civil» mental health system in providing services, and provide training about mental - health problems and illnesses to those working in the criminal justice system.

The Equal Justice Works Fellowships programs fund hundreds of public interest attorneys each year to close the justice gap on issues such as foreclosure, community economic development, immigration, civil rights, homelessness, access to healthcare, and domestic viJustice Works Fellowships programs fund hundreds of public interest attorneys each year to close the justice gap on issues such as foreclosure, community economic development, immigration, civil rights, homelessness, access to healthcare, and domestic vijustice gap on issues such as foreclosure, community economic development, immigration, civil rights, homelessness, access to healthcare, and domestic violence.

However, in the Social Justice Report 2006 I identified that an «information gap» exists in Australia that inhibits the use of a human rights framework by many Indigenous peoples and other civil society groups.