Sentences with phrase «existing legal system»

Many felt that the existing legal system exacerbated the difficulties couples have when splitting up and often failed to protect the children in the divorce process; even the divorce mediation process, which was designed to be a more supportive system for helping families, did not always provide as much support as some families need.

Not only is this an opportunity to rethink legal education in light of the Truth and Reconciliation Report, it may also be the first step in training the next generation of lawyers to critically appraise our existing legal system in light of the indigenous ones which preceded confederation.

Not exact matches

We are no longer limited by the geographical boundaries that once existed and the other traditional advantages of operating in Australia such as having a safe economy and good legal system continue to be eroded as other countries increase their own standards in these areas or ours begins to deteriorate.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Even worse, she needs to somehow integrate all of that data with existing systems in legal and finance.

The same phenomenon exists in other countries, such as Colombia, with strong legal and regulatory systems, including governing the contract bidding process.

It may also be the case that the individualism of our legal system is more thoroughgoing than that which exists in our culture.

Jeremy has shown me over the past couple of years how to challenge my existing belief system arising from (as Neville describes as) «moral / legal covenant interpretation of the gospel».

A system which «double - check on the candidate's validity, character and legal qualifications» exists in Iran.

Bulgaria and Romania were granted accession earlier this year despite concerns over the transparency of their legal systems, but the biggest worry among existing members is the expected flood of economic migrants seeking work within their borders.

These laws aren't exactly new - they existed in Ancient Israel for Judaism based legal systems (and, ironically, are a major political hot topic in Israel today, lest you think Poland is somehow the only place this is an issue).

A future UK implementation of Megan's Law is by far from a done deal, a Home Office minister has said, as fundamental differences exist between the US and British legal systems.

The new office would make budget recommendations, coordinate existing legal service providers, and develop a system to get people help after disasters.

... Although June 15, 2015 is the day that several laws creating our rent stabilization system are set to expire, your legal obligations under existing leases and under the passage of the new rent stabilization program will not expire on that day; and any attempt to circumvent those responsibilities will face the full brunt of the law and all legal consequences.»

«Government needs to take genuine steps to address racially discriminatory practices and racial injustice within the education system and to secure compliance with existing legal duties under the Equality Act 2010.

But «Any Day Now» undercuts our acceptance with the uneasy reminder that these characters exist in 1979, within many of our lifetimes, when the legal system could sink to surprising depths of injustice against gays.

The «illegal» component of this term underscores the fact that they exist outside the «legal» system that constitutes society.

[7] Our existing legal protections governing discrimination and child protection would lead to court intervention and piecemeal re-regulation of exactly the kind that produced the irrational governance system we have today.

A true results - based accountability system in special education would retain the existing legal guarantees of diagnosis and services for students with disabilities at the front end of the special education process.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, there is official, legal acknowledgement that there is more than one dominant culture and that there are competing value systems, an acknowledgement that also exists in some schools.

1994 — While continuing to work in the legislature, AEF retains legal counsel to study the feasibility of challenging the existing school finance system's constitutionality.

And if the schools do, it begs the question of whether it is ethical or legal for private interests to profit from education while many schools in the existing system can't afford adequate learning materials and instructional staff.

In my travels around North Carolina — to the state's three largest school districts — I ask school board members, legal and education experts, and charter advocates to explain how a state that doesn't seem to adequately fund its existing public school system can afford to add a competitive new one.

The general consensus in the legal community seems to be that the existing tort - liability system is flexible enough to deal with autonomous cars.

And not the legal system as no laws exist to protect animals from bad breeding.

As few laws exist that bring the interests of an individual animal before the court, Alaska's new statute represents significant progress for animals in the legal system.

That's another thing markets don't handle well, besides environmental problems that span political boundaries and national legal systems — problems that exist over an extended period of time.

Further, there is no assurance that countries that have repudiated the existing legal architecture, like the United States, will agree to or ratify a new agreement, nor that such agreement will not be a weak and ineffective «pledge and review» system.

In fact, the necessary solution requires that the existing system be changed from the «handcraftsman's» method to the «support services» method of delivering legal services.

As was observed by Henry James MP, at another time of unprecedented radical change some 140 years ago, «those who had to frame and introduce a measure of legal reform had sometimes to contend with -LSB-...] with members of the legal profession, who might think that their interests would be affected by any change in the existing system.»

Let's say someone wanted to force a US State to get into a legal battle to resolve an open issue that the legal system has been reluctant to resolve and for which existing laws were murky.

After all, since the legal system in Canada mostly revolves around the written word, the existing «literacy divide» seems much more problematic than any perceived digital divide.

For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.

The Law School Bill states, «Under the current system to nurture legal professionals, a gap exists between legal education and legal practices.

Although the term «legal system» is used it appears that in actuality there exists legal silos.

A question bolstered by a growing legal tech industry that has normalized the idea that technology has a very important role to play in legal services, whether through expert systems, Artificial Intelligence, or simply better use of existing software.

«National laws do not yet correspond to the realities of the modern world and existing legal cases have clogged the already overburdened judicial system, which has coincided with a steep rise in the cost of legal services and litigation.»

He reasoned that the existing UK legal system (reminder, the one that seeded ours) was too opaque.

The Society designed and tested a Management System for Ethical Legal Practice (MSELP), which includes 10 elements based on existing ethical rules, as well as tools and resources to support enhanced quality of practice.

Many non-governmental organisations here and abroad have realized the overwhelming inefficiency of the existing traditional legal system in the countries in which they are based.

The fixation on legal aid therefore reflect an entirely unrealistic perspective of a universally accessible family law system that hasn't existed for decades, and also blinds its proponents from accurately identifying the solutions.

The Legal Profession, by its own constitution, exists to ensure that everybody can access our adversarial justice system through a diligent and competent advocate.

The legal system exists (in part) to help us achieve a way of living together despite the fact that we are flawed and imperfect people who do not agree on the best way to live the short lives that we are given.

Through the lens of legal information and based on the sessions I attended Saturday, the thing I would like to discuss further is developing expertise in analyzing and explicating existing datasets and creating the structures to collect new data about the legal system to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of programs and demonstrating what aspects of existing programs are most effective.

Firstly, I agree that our legal system is a social system with imperfections and inequities which will always exist.

Even while promoting the tool's openness, Alsdorf, an attorney, is uncertain whether a legal imperative to open algorithms in the criminal justice system exists.

It does not look at the proposed» Investment Court System» generally but analyzes specific aspects of the proposal in the light of existing legal norms.

There are two primary obstacles that legal departments run into when leveraging technology for metrics reporting — one is that data exists in multiple systems; the second is that data integrity is compromised due to poor coding or inconsistent use of systems.

I can't claim to be a scholar of American legal history, but my impression is that in many instances, extra-constitutional reform comes only after the judiciary declares the existing system unconstitutional.

Although we often refer to restructuring legal services and increasing funding for legal aid as means for enhancing access to justice, if we can not properly fund the existing system we put unnecessary pressures our justice system.