Sentences with phrase «courts reach the communities»

In closing, Rosner points out that even if large sums awarded by the courts reach the communities in need, those funds will never be enough to alleviate the damage already done.

Not exact matches

This agreement was part of the resolution reached by the Federal Government and other parties in a suit filed on behalf of the victims and adopted on Monday by the Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja as its judgment.

The local court system is reaching out to the community to help get more African Americans to serve on jury duty.

Additionally, the governor reached out to another state employee, Deneae Brown, who works in the Division of Housing and Community Renewal and was a mutual friend of Paterson and the accuser, asking Brown to contact the woman before her court date to finalize an order of protection against Johnson.

Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez of New York City last week reached a compromise with a Bronx community school board in an out - of - court settlement of a lawsuit over the appointment of six area principals.

While reaching out to fellow Democrats, choice proponents in the minority community have sought to build alliances with Republicans and with libertarian organizations like the Institute for Justice, which has represented poor parents in every voucher case that has come before the courts in the past dozen years, including Zelman.

Once the case reached the country's highest tribunal, the Supreme Court explained that the intent of the Criminal Code provision, introduced in Parliament in 1994, is to alleviate the higher rate of incarceration for Indigenous offenders and to implement restorative justice — an approach that views crime as harm done to people and that seeks to rehabilitate offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community.

Using a moot court format, this session explores some of the legal tech community's grander predictions, and examines the various ways the community might succeed (or fail) in reaching these lofty goals.

Funded by the Mississippi Supreme Court and the state bar, the Commission coordinates these organizations to improve their reach and efficiency, and represents them to the broader legal community in Mississippi.

You can use it to identify specific business in your community to reach out to maybe potential clients against whom a complaint has been filed in court.

With the commitment of 1200 + volunteers, including judges from all levels of the courts, members of the bar, court staff, legal aid clinics, law schools, teachers, and community representatives, OJEN reaches over 200,000 youth across the province each year.

So, irrespective of its solemn provenance and purpose, court information such as judgments, practice notes and other informational and educational materials is the basis upon which courts can reach out and engage the communities they serve.

In Canada tribal courts are not established, although many offences, committed in the bounds of the community are dealt with by those communities and never reach the Canadian courts.

Some future act agreements exist where the developer has accepted it is dealing with the legitimate traditional owners of an area and reached agreement with that community regardless of current or future outcomes of native title court proceedings (examples of these agreements include the Burrup Peninsula and the Western Cape Communities Co-Existence Agreement).