Sentences with phrase «concerns about access to justice»

That report will form CCLA's submission to the law society's ABS working group as it considers whether ABS models might work in Ontario in order to address concerns about access to justice.

The ABA president raised concerns about access to justice for veterans — many of whom face homelessness due to legal concerns — as well as concerns about planned cuts to federal legal services funding.

Since Alberta increased its small claims court limits in 2013, concerns about access to justice and about self - represented litigants have only increased.

Hoy A.C.J.O., noted that «requiring multiple motions results in unwarranted delay and expense and does not foster access to justice» and that to require RBC to bring another motion «would fly in the face of increasing concerns about access to justice in Canada».

Yet, until now, there has been no identifiable, central platform in Canada where a wide range of justice stakeholders can exchange research and resources, raise questions and share ideas and concerns about access to justice issues.

In the administrative justice system there are legitimate concerns about the access to justice implications of using electronic documents.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to have credibility:

That, admitedly, will require broader regulatory changes, beyond what the law society can do, but anyone seriously concerned about access to justice should be pushing for those changes.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to... [more]

The association is concerned about access to the justice system, pointing to struggles with long case delays and an overstretched legal aid system.

«In some of these cases, they had literally left off a comma,» she says, raising a concern about access to justice for those without counsel.

Not exact matches

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers also expressed concern about the impact on access to justice for highly complex cases.

The fact that the majority of Canadians can not afford to seek justice through the current system is a problem which far outstrips in magnitude concerns about maximizing procedural and due process protections for those litigants who are presently able to access the system.

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

Not only would such a model help address concerns about post-graduate articling positions and work experiences, but it would also help facilitate the access to justice and technology focuses of the proposed law school.

He says the whole issue also falls into the context of access to justice and a concern about small companies using lawyers who «dabble» when they actually need specialized expertise.

As well, in recent years considerable popular and legal media attention has focused on the lack of access to justice and the high cost of legal representation, often making connections to concerns about the adequacy of available legal aid.

Practitioner groups have expressed serious concerns about the sustainability and fairness of the proposals and their impact on access to justice.

In the Province of Ontario, there is a lot of talk about access to justice and concern about how many self - represented litigants there are in the courts.

By Inga Andriessen In the Province of Ontario, there is a lot of talk about access to justice and concern about how many self - represented litigants there are in the courts.

YLAL co-chair Oliver Carter wrote for The Justice Gap, expressing concern about the impact of further cuts to the MoJ budget on the LASPO review and access to justice genJustice Gap, expressing concern about the impact of further cuts to the MoJ budget on the LASPO review and access to justice genjustice generally.

Earlier in November, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, expressed opposition by judges to «the succession of significant fee increases» which have left the judiciary «very concerned about the implications for access to justice», as reported by The GuJustice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, expressed opposition by judges to «the succession of significant fee increases» which have left the judiciary «very concerned about the implications for access to justice», as reported by The Gujustice», as reported by The Guardian.

They have «Access to Justice» committees, and they express «concern» about the problem, but nothing has happened during all the decades during which this problem has been inflicting more damage in one day than have all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers in the whole history of Canada, coast to coast to coast.

You've raised important concerns here about transforming access to justice needs through innovation; you ask whether innovation will be inevitably about capturing the high end of the legal market, at the continuing expense of low - income and middle - income communities.

All members of the legal profession, as part of our commitment to the rule of law, should be concerned about the manifest inadequacies of the legal aid system, and work for a better way of promoting access to justice.

While the impact on small firms is unlikely to move the needle, lawyers across the country, including the Canadian Bar Association, have raised concerns about how the changes negatively affect access to justice.

The UK judiciary remains «deeply concerned» about threats to access to justice as a result of increases to court fees in civil cases of 5 % of the value of a claim.

It will resolve access to justice issues on a short term basis but I am concerned about what this means for legal aid lawyers going forward.

This raises concern about whether the current housing possession process is providing effective access to justice.

ACC Europe — like LegalStart — is diverse, technology and process - driven, concerned about addressing access to justice — an acute problem throughout Europe and North America — and eager to improve efficiency, automate, and reduce legal cost.

As far as access to justice is concerned, it's important to think about a major straight jacket on innovation: funding for new IT systems has to come from partners» debt.

More incongruous is the video from Attorney General George Brandis, talking about his commitment to access to justice (despite great concerns about funding for Indigenous legal services), and to working with the Native Title sector (despite plans to introduce a bill to reverse the effect of a federal court decision regarding the Noongar people), with nary an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flag in sight nor mention of his support for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains partnered with the Missouri Medicaid Coalition and Jobs with Justice to bring representatives from US Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D - MO) office to hear about constituent concerns around the Affordable Care Act, the economy, access to health care at Planned Parenthood, and reproductive justice in MiJustice to bring representatives from US Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D - MO) office to hear about constituent concerns around the Affordable Care Act, the economy, access to health care at Planned Parenthood, and reproductive justice in Mijustice in Missouri.

A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities is the lack of attention paid to issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.

A matter of great concern in relation to current debates about addressing family violence in Indigenous communities are issues of access to justice for Indigenous women.