Sentences with phrase «effective access to justice»

We know that increasingly our legal system is not providing effective access to justice to those without significant means.
Thus, ensuring effective access to justice under the rule of law should not be done according to socialist principles but this means serious resource concerns.
Though their ultimate decisions on the matter have been measured, the judiciary has been vocal about the extent to which the rule of law demands effective access to justice.
Does the current housing possession process provide effective access to justice?
The CJC argued that the existing procedures were not fully effective nor sufficient for providing effective access to justice for, inter alia, consumers, small businesses and employees.
Any reform to uphold the rule of law by guaranteeing effective access to justice should not merely subject lawyers to undue hardship in place of litigants.
In practice, this means they are denied effective access to justice rendering the Fees Order in breach of the «effectiveness principle» and therefore unlawful.
Engaging the public about their views is critical to creating relevant and effective access to justice responses.
West Coast LEAF intervened in the distinct matter of «public interest standing» being denied to these women through their representative organization — to argue that such organizations ought to be able to bring forward important constitutional cases on behalf of the many women who do not have effective access to the justice system on their own.
The result of the Access to Justice report by Lord Woolf The aim is to provide more effective access to Justice through quicker, cheaper and more proportionate justice for defended cases It introduced a unified set of Rules and Practice Directions for the County and High Courts, and Judicial Case Management The reforms came into effect on 26 April 1999
Guaranteeing effective access to justice may not necessarily entail our current legal system becoming universal, rendering all legal professionals employees of the state.
He said: «Where litigation costs deny effective access to justice, this will in due course undermine belief in, and commitment, to the rule of law, and that results in the undermining of our democracy and all its modern features — health, education, and welfare.»
Self - representing parties seems to be the new reality for courts around the common law world and so courts need to adapt the way they have traditionally operated in order to provide effective access to justice for unrepresented litigants.»
We must acknowledge and address these wider issues if the reform programme is to have any real prospect of achieving the effective access to justice that we all crave and our society deserves.
Law Society — Access to justice must be available for all (solicitors» representative body): «If the Government persists with these proposals it would represent a sharp break from the long - standing bipartisan consensus that effective access to justice is essential to underpin the rule of law... Legal aid clients are some of the most vulnerable in society and good legal representation where required is essential if they are to obtain justice.»
It encourages a cultural and institutional transformation based on the efficient and effective access to justice for all Colombians.
Others would suggest that the government must bear the cost as access to justice is a societal responsibility akin to healthcare and that without broad and effective access to justice, our democratic system can not function effectively.
After engaging this afternoon in a discussion about a number of issues related to ongoing access to justice, I continued thinking about the barriers that stand between ordinary people with legal problems and their effective access to justice.
The Law Society, which published its own access to justice review today, has said that «only the poorest of the poor will continue to be eligible for legal aid» and that the proposals represent «a sharp break from the long - standing bipartisan consensus that effective access to justice is essential to underpin the rule of law ``.
Providing effective access to justice is a basic tenet of the rule of law and a core characteristic of the welfare state.
This raises concern about whether the current housing possession process is providing effective access to justice.
The Engagement Committee was first called the Communications Committee but was changed to reflect the fact that in order to be an effective access to justice network, A2JBC needed to do more than communicate — it also needed to engage not just the members of A2JBC groups and committees, but networks across the justice sector and beyond.
In this blog post, the writer presents an itemized list of «barriers that stand between ordinary people with legal problems and their effective access to justice,» but acknowledges that the list is necessarily incomplete (being based solely on her personal knowledge and experiences).
The committee suggests strengthening the lord chancellor's duty to secure «effective access to justice», to ensure the director of legal aid casework is sufficiently independent of possible government interference, and to guarantee provision for appeals where legal aid is refused.
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