Sentences with phrase «facilitate access to justice for»

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

It was seen as an opportunity to maintain relationships in pursuit of facilitating access to justice for the people of Ontario and to educate legislators about regulatory functions and mandate.

Not exact matches

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?

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

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.

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.

Electronically facilitate access to criminal justice by increasing the turnaround time for delivery of pro-bono legal services through collating, analyzing, and collaborating on existing case data.

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]

Project LemonAid aims to electronically facilitate access to criminal justice by decreasing the turnaround time for delivery of pro-bono legal services through collating, analyzing, and collaborating on existing case data.

This change in attitude has exciting prospects for practitioners and litigants in enhancing access to justice, and is particularly suited to facilitating competition law private actions.

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 Ejustice (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 EJustice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All ER 689).

«No matter where it's been implemented ---- whether it's Australia or the United Kingdom — ABS has not resulted in greater access to justice, lower costs for consumers, nor has it facilitated technological advancements and innovation in the profession.

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.

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 Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&rAccess to Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&raccess to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&raccess to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable».

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.

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

Evidence of this could be found, for example, in the large amount of materials posted on the Commission's website (videotaped presentations, webinar, written submissions,...) and the Commission's efforts to facilitate a large number of what it termed «grassroots meetings,» which the Commission described as «local conversations [to] create new avenues for access to justice for all and open doors to new career opportunities for current and future lawyers.»

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

The point is expanding and improving access to legal literature for the benefit of all who have a stake or interest in the research and its results, enhancing access to justice by facilitating access to legal information.

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.

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.

On the other hand, and this appears to be well understood by participants, the motivation for even initiating the debate is due to a variety of factors, both internal (law society mandate concerning facilitating access to justice) and external (gaps in access, globalization, technology, etc...).

In response to the demands for access to justice, some law societies in Canada have adopted professional conduct rules to facilitate in - house counsel delivering pro bono services.

Social Justice Report 2006: Chapter 2: The new arrangements for Indigenous affairs — facilitating Indigenous access to government services

Law, Justice and Cultural Rights: Facilitate access to flora, fauna, land and sea for all Aboriginal communities and endure Aboriginal rights, increase awareness of and understand within the law and justice system and reduce incarceration rates for Aboriginal Justice and Cultural Rights: Facilitate access to flora, fauna, land and sea for all Aboriginal communities and endure Aboriginal rights, increase awareness of and understand within the law and justice system and reduce incarceration rates for Aboriginal justice system and reduce incarceration rates for Aboriginal people.