Not exact matches
Even if we are not persuaded by
access to
justice, don't we at the very least want to
collectively seek out change that alters Americans» perception of us?
The advice - a-thon events are
collectively known as «Pro Bono Going Public» and serve to raise awareness of lawyers» charitable efforts to increase
access to
justice in BC.
A series of barriers
collectively reduce the effectiveness of initial and subsequent monthly reviews of detention sentences including: arbitrariness of decision - making in detention reviews; detainee's difficulty in gathering new evidence while in detention; standard of proof for detainees; and prohibitive release conditions: Petra Molnar and Stephanie J. Silverman, Everyday Injustices: Barriers to
Access to
Justice for Immigration Detainees in Canada, Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (1): 109 - 127 [Molnar & Silverman, Everyday Injustices].
All big questions for sure, and I think the answers we
collectively write in the next few years will be critical to whether the future turns out to be a boon for both our profession and
access to
justice, or the end of our profession and
justice system as we know them.
Yet one would think that, unlike some of the more abstract problems (say that of public debt and the appropriate level of government spending) which might not affect anyone in particular (important though they are important for us
collectively) and so attract few people's attention, the problems of
access to
justice not only impact real people every single day, but may indeed affect anyone at some point in one's life, whether personal (say because of a divorce) or business.