Sentences with phrase «civil justice systems»

With the slow civil justice systems creating an appetite for arbitration in both countries, especially for foreign companies, both have domestic arbitration laws: Angola's 2003 Voluntary Arbitration Law and Mozambique's 1999 Law on Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation are based on the UNCITRAL model, although in Angola, some matters, including insolvency, land, employment and some non-commercial disputes, are not arbitrable.

We can look to the civil justice systems of other countries to see where we are heading if we continue on our current path.

This is not entirely surprising given that, based on criteria such as cost - effectiveness, efficiency, impartiality and independence, the World Justice Project ranked the civil legal system of the Netherlands the highest of all civil justice systems in the world.

Across the country, in both state and federal civil justice systems, IAALS has successfully supported changes in both rules and caseflow management that are taking hold.

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.

Christopher Hodges & Rebecca Money - Kyrle, European Civil Justice Systems: Safeguards in Collective Actions (The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, 2012).

Researchers can also contact the IBA's Multi-Jurisdictional Class Action / Collective Redress Working Group and its Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Class Actions (see their Guidelines for Recognising and Enforcing Foreign Judgments for Collective Redress); the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (Class Actions and Mass Torts); the Oxford Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, European Civil Justice Systems; the Searle Civil Justice Institute at George Mason University's Law & Economics Center (SCJI); and check the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Stanford Law School)-RRB-.

In this context, the multi-media presentation by the Forum on the public perspectives on civil justice systems, derived from our larger research project Civil Justice Systems and the Public, was well received, and there was interest in more research of this kind.

Civil Justice Systems in Europe: Implications for Choice of Forum and Choice of Contract Law (Stefan Vogenauer & Christopher Hodges eds., Hart Pubs., forthcoming January 2013).

We have also made available an Interim Report on the state of civil justice systems in Canada, which was completed to hyelp focus the discussion at part 1 of the conference.

We explored the philosophical foundations of the common law, traced the evolution of the concept of equal access to justice, and considered different sociological analyses of how ordinary Canadians interact with the civil justice systems built to serve them.

Increasingly, states» civil justice systems constitute a critical component in creating jobs and enhancing economic development.

While foreign civil justice systems are not identical to the U.S. system, they can nevertheless create opportunities for similar abuses, such as settlements that provide substantial compensation to lawyers, while failing to provide much benefit to consumers.

And countries / states with unpredictable and unstable civil justice systems are left out of the competition.

In order to respond adequately to the demands of reasonable access, civil justice systems are going to have to reallocate funding to CDR.

Recommendations for action Our review strongly suggests that we have clear and reliable information about the low level of public confidence in both our criminal and civil justice systems.

«This blog explores various legal topics relating to both the criminal and civil justice systems in Arizona.»

The awards honor individuals and organizations whose outstanding work has contributed to reforming civil justice systems around the globe.

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.

It's also necessary to continue modernising the civil justice system to work more effectively for claimants so less money is swallowed up by the legal process.»

Coalition proposals for the civil justice system threaten the foundations of the British legal system, the former director of public prosecutions warned today.

ABI have led the way through radical reforms to savings and retirement, modernised the civil justice system, campaigned for solutions fit for our future and much more.

Modernising the civil justice system Welcomed the Government review of claims management company regulation Delivering MedCo to bring rigour to personal injury claims Securing mandatory lawyers checks of a claimant's personal injury claims history

«Transparency and fairness in the civil justice system are important for everyone,» she said.

The codes committee considers issues and legislation relating to New York's criminal and civil justice system.

NYC About Blog New York Personal Injury Law Blog by Eric Turkewitz, is an attorney's blog on New York personal injury law, medical malpractice, the civil justice system and cases of interest.

One of the deficits in the English civil justice system is the lack of public legal education.

«We provide news and commentary daily on the civil justice system in the U.S., focusing mainly on mass torts, employment discrimination, and injury law.

They tell us that making sure corporations are held accountable when their actions harm consumers, employees, or communities (70 %) should be a much higher priority for the civil justice system than limiting the amount of compensation that juries can award for pain and suffering.»

U of T's access to middle - income justice initiative, a multi-pronged initiative aimed at addressing the growing problem of middle - income access to the civil justice system in Canada.

The survey's executive summary contrasts voters» concern about corporations with what it describes as their «muted response» to criticisms frequently leveled against the civil justice system.

This blawg «presents the unique perspective of Illinois consumer advocates who are fighting to protect Illinois» civil justice system.

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

Sir Rupert Jackson's reforms will have a far - reaching impact on the civil justice system for years to come, so what is his legacy, asks Professor Dominic Regan in NLJ this week.

The survey, conducted for AAJ by Peter D. Hart Research Associates, explored voters» attitudes towards the civil justice system.

Rather, the limited use of cy près — as a last resort, when compensation is truly not feasible, and when other regulatory oversight mechanisms fail — illustrates a continued adherence to the traditional goals of our civil justice system, of which deterrence is but one aim.

We are honored to dedicate this year's proceeds to BayLegal, an organization that ensures fairness in the civil justice system for the most vulnerable members of our community.

Rose is a specialist lawyer in serious / catastrophic injuries including loss of sight, brain injury, spinal injury and loss of limb and fatal accidents, and is frequently asked to lecture nationally and internationally on the UK's civil justice system.

The Civil Justice Council, while recognising that «the lion's share» of the consultation was about criminal justice, expressed concern that the proposals would «erode important features of the civil justice system» and have «an adverse impact on the quality of justice for those members of the public who have no alternative but to count on publicly funded assistance».

«This report is another reminder of how corporations use front groups like ATRA to undermine the civil justice system,» said AAJ CEO Jon Haber.

The new rules on budgets and sanctions nearly destroyed the reputation of our civil justice system for fairness with the disastrous Mitchell decision when # 506,000 of costs was disallowed from a budget because it was filed the day before the hearing, not seven days before (Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537, [2014] 2 All ER 430).

Does the fact that we have increasingly sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance change the way we need to think about privacy rights, not just in the criminal justice system but in the civil justice system as well?

What a shattering change to the self - image of courts this requires, and what a challenge to access to justice, and what a rethink of our whole court management, indeed whole civil justice system, challenge.

No one will notice that we've taken away their access to the civil justice system unless they have been injured by medical malpractice.

Before the Ohio landlord tenant statute was enacted a tenant had great difficulty recovering through the Ohio civil justice system for injuries resulting from defective conditions of the premises.

«Doctor» Jackson's remedies («interlocking reforms») for the ongoing malaise in the civil justice system were:

Proponents of tort reform, led by men such as Karl Rove, learned early on the value in shaping public opinion in regards to the civil justice system; YOUR civil justice system.

The civil justice system can protect itself and tort reform was never needed.

«The Legal Reform Awards honor individuals and organizations whose outstanding work has contributed to making the U.S. civil justice system simpler, fairer, and more efficient for all,» said ILR President Lisa A. Rickard.

Steve has been recognized with numerous professional and community awards for both his legal services and charitable contributions; the most recent of which includes the Florida Justice Association's BRONZE EAGLE award, which recognizes Steve's leadership when it comes to upholding the civil justice system and protecting the rights of Florida citizens.