Sentences with phrase «civil justice measure»

Not exact matches

«However, if the Buhari Administration fails to take immediate corrective measures to stabilize Nigeria and restore justice, equity and fairness, particularly to stop the reckless murder of Nigerians by Islamist insurgents, then all Nigerians must prepare to embark on civil disobedience and «shut down» the country.

The U.S. Department of Justice has warned North Carolina its LGBT access measure for restrooms is a potential civil rights violation and could force them to forgo federal funding.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group's annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade - old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this -LSB-...]

The measure, criticised by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.

The new school discipline measures were praised by a number of elected officials and advocates on Friday, including New York Civil Liberties Union director Donna Lieberman, who wrote that New York was officially charting a different path from South Carolina by embracing restorative justice and aiming to lower suspensions.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Some environmental justice NGOs do not want to discuss geoengineering for fear that it will validate the «mad science» and distract civil society, governments and business communities from focusing on less drastic measures that will have impact on climate change.

Even so, no equivalent to these extreme measures exists elsewhere in our civil justice system.

The report, An Evaluation of the Cost of Family Law Disputes: Measuring the Cost Implication of Various Dispute Resolution Methods, is available on the Institute's website and the website of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

The next frontier in BC at least is the civil resolution tribunals, where it seems that the idea of access to justice will extend more to the later measure, and less so the former.

Unfortunately, Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed these vital liability reform measures, and Wisconsin's civil justice system remained in a state of crisis.

Accident victims and their families care about this for two fundamental reasons: (1) the desire for some measure of justice and, (2) because they believe it impacts their civil case.

The accessibility of the civil justice system is an aspect of rule of law on which Canada scores relatively poorly, in comparison with other measures for Canada and with other countries.

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

In addition to the official IAEG global indicators — measuring the proportion of victims of violence that report their victimization to the police as well as unsentenced detainees as a proportion of the overall prison population — WJP's Index scores provide a holistic picture of the accessibility, affordability, impartiality, and effectiveness of civil justice systems, and of the capacity of criminal justice systems to investigate and adjudicate criminal offenses through an impartial system that protects the rights of victims and the accused.

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.

Both claimants and defendants in defamation and privacy cases could use a «variable» form of one - way qualified costs - shifting, the Civil Justice Council (CJC) has recommended, in a report on costs protection published last week, ahead of measures in the Defamation Bill coming into effect.

Less than a week after the supreme court struck down a civil justice reform measure known as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for appellate judges.

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.»

The measure diverts 65 cents of a $ 2 filing fee on civil cases to the Oklahoma Access to Justice Commission from the Council on Judicial Complaints.

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.

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

The interim report addresses concerns regarding a perceived underuse of ADR within some sections of the civil justice system and suggests a variety of possible corrective measures.

Performance is measured using 44 indicators across eight primary rule of law factors, each of which is scored and ranked globally and against regional and income peers: Constraints on Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Open Government, Fundamental Rights, Order and Security, Regulatory Enforcement, Civil Justice, and Criminal Justice.

We might expect that before anything happens a Labour or coalition government would wish to review civil justice provision as a whole before concluding on any particular measure.

«The governor has signed 15 significant civil justice reform measures into law since being sworn in,» Joyce continued, «and the citizens of Wisconsin have benefited as a result.

«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.

In a recent article, «Evidence - Based Access to Justice ``, Laura Abel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law highlights the lack of evidence - based approaches in evaluating access to justice initiatives in the civil justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — Justice ``, Laura Abel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law highlights the lack of evidence - based approaches in evaluating access to justice initiatives in the civil justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — Justice at NYU School of Law highlights the lack of evidence - based approaches in evaluating access to justice initiatives in the civil justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — justice initiatives in the civil justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — justice system, and proposes that legal help lines and information centres could be measured in terms of a demonstrable impact on the ability of a self - represented litigant to manage — and win — a case.

It is important to note that in Switzerland, youths can be placed in welfare and juvenile justice institutions because of: delinquent behavior (criminal law measure), youth welfare reasons (civil law measure, e.g., maltreatment, parental psychopathology, prostitution and drug abuse) or other reasons (e.g., their own or parents» choice).