Sentences with phrase «facilitate access to justice»

This Agreement will facilitate access to justice for disadvantaged people in Australia through the delivery of legal assistance services.

The benchers are to regulate the legal profession so as to, «maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,» and, «facilitate access to justice,» and, «to protect the public interest,» being, for example, among the express duties of LSUC (the Law Society of Upper Canada), [2] being duties expressly set out in legislation such as section 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act.

Proportionally equitable representation is not simply just from a governance perspective, it is critical in allowing the Law Society to act impartially as it drives the provision of legal services to the most accessible, appropriate level of the professions it regulates — as its duty - bound obligation to facilitate access to justice requires of it.

Societies also facilitate access to justice.

Beautifully simple in its structure and application, pro bono provides the most nimble and direct means for lawyers to facilitate access to justice by affirming it and living it, and not simply by talking about it.

This is the reason many projects aiming to facilitate access to justice were created in developing countries such as Haiti, Jamaica and Congo Kinshasa.

Finally, the paper calls for a greater commitment from the Supreme Court of Canada to facilitate access to justice.

The goal is to apply innovative ideas and emerging technologies to progress the business of law or facilitate access to justice for the public.

The goal was to apply innovative ideas and emerging (or any) technologies to progress the business of law or facilitate access to justice for the public.

The other consideration which often results in a restrained approach to judicial review is the belief that deference to first level decision - makers will facilitate access to justice.

Susan has used her writing and analysis skills to facilitate access to justice through various positions in public service, non-profit organizations, and as an independent consultant.

In this respect, the report observes that to understand the factors that impede or facilitate access to justice, it is essential for researchers to be able to engage with users of the justice system.

That is a violation of the duties imposed on the law society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient manner.

As such the articles are a form of free first legal advice, and facilitate access to justice.

Commercial litigation finance is helping to facilitate access to justice — for companies that may have been on the receiving end of bullying behavior by larger entities — and need to have their day in court and get on with their business.

The LRF understands that it is not enough to provide the indigent with legal assistance and legal education if the structures within the justice system do not facilitate access to justice for the general population.

The Boston Bar works to advance the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, facilitate access to justice, and serve the community at large.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

This includes the duty to act so as to facilitate access to justice contemplated in the Law Society Act.

«My colleague's interpretation effectively bars Part XXIII.1 from fulfilling either of its goals; it can neither facilitate access to justice for investors nor deter corporate misconduct,» she wrote.

When we levy unfair, unjust fees that undermine our capacity to facilitate access to justice, we betray the trust of Ontario's citizenry.

This situation violates the duties imposed upon the Law Society of Upper Canada by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, and to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

According to defence counsel, such a summary procedure would facilitate access to justice by his client, who may otherwise be unable to afford to defend the action through to trial given her limited means.

In Ontario, the Law Society Act instructs that the Law Society has duties to (i) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, (ii) facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario and (iii) to protect the public interest.

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.

The benchers are to regulate the legal profession so as to, «maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,» and, «facilitate access to justice,» and, «to protect the public interest,» being, for example, among the express duties of LSUC (the Law Society of Upper Canada), [2] being duties expressly set out in legislation such as... [more]

«Our job is to regulate the profession in the public interest and facilitate access to justice,» she said.

The Society has a duty to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

«A Contingency Legal Aid Fund could provide a valuable method to fund litigation and facilitate access to justice for those who lack the means to pay for legal services.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

You claim that «the duty to advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, as well as to undertake measures to facilitate access to justice and protect the public interest, is also synonymous with a duty to «promote».

In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report to Convocation outlining a proposal to enable lawyers and paralegals to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities, not for profit organizations and trade unions, to clients of such organizations in order to facilitate access to justice.

Does it facilitate access to justice, as the firm behind it says?

Justice Newbury examined the background behind the integrity principles at stake, while emphasizing the need for contingency fees to facilitate access to justice, stating,

But to use the digital divide as an argument to stifle the implementation of ODR solutions to alleviate court dockets and facilitate access to justice is not only unwarranted, it's undemocratic since 87 % of Canadians do have access to computers.

Q1: Is #LegalTech on it's own going to drive down costs to facilitate Access to Justice?

While acknowledging that contingency fees are needed to facilitate access to justice, the Court clarified that policy goal of reducing barriers to legal services is but one factor to consider, and that the policy of maintaining the integrity of the profession is a primary concern with deep roots.

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

They may ask: «if facilitating access to justice is a duty for the entire Ontario legal profession, then why are we the only ones being asked to make a sacrifice in order to further it?

You'd think the principle that access to legal information facilitates access to justice would be supported by everyone in the legal profession.

The profession needs to progress from its current starting point of facilitating access to justice, to the point where it can be seen to be actively prioritising it.

LSUC has an outmoded system of management that is not under sufficient public or political pressure to make perform its duties under s. 4.2 of the Law Society Act, specifically as to: (1) advancing the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) facilitating access to justice; (3) protecting the public interest; and, (4) acting in a timely, open and efficient manner.

Even the judiciary have become embroiled in the debate, heavily criticising many of the Lord Chancellor's decisions, and in doing so upholding and facilitating access to justice (see R (on the application of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 145 (Sep); and R (on the application of the Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All ER 689).

And remember: it would be facilitating access to justice.

From this vantage point, we begin to recognize that facilitating access to justice is not about making things better or easier for other people.

Although there is little case - law, it is suggested that an Isle of Man court would take the view that litigation funding facilitates access to justice and is not champertous.

NCSC will provide specialized expertise and training to further project objectives in court technology and facilitating access to justice.

Today, we explore a unique, local resource that facilitates access to justice.

To further its commitment to facilitating access to justice for Ontarians, Convocation voted overwhelmingly to change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.»

Copibec believed the judge's logic went against the class action's goals of facilitating access to justice, preserving judicial resources and sanctioning wrongful acts.