Sentences with phrase «failure of access to justice»

But those claims do not necessarily represent a failure of access to justice.

LLLT proponents often make emotive appeals by maligning lawyers, suggesting, among other things, that lawyers are responsible for the failures of access to justice in society.

Not exact matches

I agree with this entirely, and I think it lies at the heart of the profession's failure to increase access to justice primarily through increased civil legal aid funding.

In June 1966, writing for an 8 - 1 majority, Justice Tom Clark detailed the barrage of «virulent and incriminating» media coverage of the Sheppard investigation and excoriated the failure of the trial court to control media access to jurors.

I think you called it a failure as an access to justice project but as a client generator it actually was sort of a success.

Justice Kelen declared that Ms Jodhan's inability to access certain government websites is representative of a system wide failure by government departments and agencies to make their websites accessible, and that the government's failure to monitor and ensure compliance with its own accessibility standards violates the equality guarantee in the Charter.

And on the Access to Justice in Canada blog, «The Failure of Law Societies to Accept Their Duty in Law to Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» Part 1 on August 12, 2014, & Part 2 on August 14, 2014.

1) While litigation costs are often prohibitive and an obvious issue in access to justice, litigation often arises only as a result of failure to obtain (sufficient) legal advise in the first case.

And, (4) our law societies are making no attempt to protect the market of the general practitioner from the inroads being made by the commercial producers of legal services such as, LegalZoom, LegalX, and Rocket Lawyer - see their great success in the U.S. And, (5) Canada's governments do not call our law societies to account for such failures and refusal to fulfill the purpose of a law society in regard to access to justice.

Many of the failures to address and remedy the conditions in which Aboriginal women and girls live fall under BC's constitutional responsibility, including education, housing, public transportation, access to justice, and support for families and children.

In such a state - driven exercise, not having as many trials as there are lawsuits is taken (more or less explicitly) as a failure of the system and a denial of «access to justice.»

2) The joint failure of government and the legal profession to provide access to justice in Ontario (ie affordable legal services for the public and equitable access to the profession for qualified licensees) is reason enough to make the LPP permanent;

Indeed, the denial of meaningful access to justice to a significant segment of our society — those who can not afford attorneys — is a failure of our profession and of our system of democracy.

The Commission listed and discussed four «potential benefits» of ABS (increased access to justice, enhanced financial flexibility, enhanced operational flexibility, and increased cost - effectiveness and quality of service) and four «potential risks» (threat to lawyers» core values, decreased pro bono work, threat to attorney - client privilege, and failure to deliver identified benefits).

The tipping of the scales towards protecting commentators is perhaps too great, being based on an apparent failure to recognise the need for a corporation to have equal access to justice in order to protect its reputation.

However, perhaps a prosecution of a law society under Criminal Code s. 122 for its failure to perform its duties in regard to access to justice by at least trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem would fail because, even if an official knows that a decision does affect his / her personal interests, there is no offence, «if the decision is made honestly and in a genuine belief that it was a proper exercise of his jurisdiction.

«In particular, the issue of special - interest influence over the executive branch and the failure of the Department of Justice to protect Megaupload consumer data access should be scrutinized,» he said.