Sentences with phrase «fewer civil legal»

There are now nearly a million fewer civil legal aid cases than there were seven years ago.

The lower numbers are attributed to fewer civil legal aid applications.

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It is true that there were relatively few legal divorces prior to the Civil War.

While much of East Asia has adopted Western civil and common law legal systems, only a few countries have fully functioning systems of constitutional judicial review.

FEW MWs that are negligent or kill ever see any legal or civil ramifications.

She retired from the full - time practice of law in December 2004, but remains committed to the law through her writing, consulting, legal commentary, and handling a few select civil rights cases.

A recent report by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, stated nearly 12 million Canadians will experience at least one legal problem in a three - year period, and few will have the resources to solve them.

Within these broad practice areas, their lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

Within these broad practice areas, our lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

I beg you to consider the fact that there are few legal avenues to protest what I believe is criminal activity of corporations like Kinder Morgan so citizens are being forced to participate in civil disobedience.

The Walrus has an article by Alex Hutchinson, «The People's Court, A case for universal legal care,» that looks at some of the changes that have happened to legal aid over the last decade and a few of the changes to civil procedure expected in British Columbia... [more]

More funding for civil legal services, increased support for pro bono efforts, and an expanded role for nonlawyers are a few of the recommendations in the report.

I ran legal aid, the civil division, in Detroit for a few years.

Otherwise a situation will continue in which only a few people get help when they get to court and the many more thousands with civil legal problems are ignored by policy makers.

Canadian studies indicate that some Canadians, particularly those with fewer resources and marginalized groups, do not view the justice system as fair, accessible or reflective of them or their needs: Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, Nicole Aylwin, Les Jacobs, David Northrup and Lisa Moore, Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada: Overview Report [2016 Everyday Legal Problems Overview], 2016 Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Toronto, Canada: online CFCJ http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/sites/default/files/Everyday%20Legal%20Problems%20and%20the%20Cost%20of%20Justice%20in%20Canada%20-%20Overview%20Report.pdf.

So now civil legal aid scarcely exists, save for a few domestic violence and human rights cases.

Sadly, many of the few prohibitions that still exist are a relic of the Civil Rights era, when state lawmakers in certain states tried to use this out - dated concept to make it difficult for impoverished minority plaintiffs in Civil Rights cases to gain legal support in the battle against racial segregation.

Service (s) include: legal advice and representation to low income residents of Philadelphia in civil cases involving bankruptcy, child custody, credit card debt, elderly issues, employment, landlord - tenant, mortgages, public housing / section 8, and welfare, to name a few.

Just as more people are in need of civil legal services, particularly in the area of consumer credit and housing, federal and state funding for legal services has seen significant cuts over the past few years.

Extrapolating from the national figures of 71 % and 86 %, this means that last year in Texas approximately 1.4 million low income households experienced at least one civil legal problem, and of those, no fewer than 1.2 million of those problems received inadequate or no legal help.

Further, in 2011, he was named by Florida Trend as one of the 2011 Florida Legal Elite, an honor bestowed upon fewer than 100 civil trial attorneys in the State of Florida.

Few would dispute that technology is one of the keys to addressing the justice gap — the difference between the need for civil legal services among low - income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs.

A few years after working for those big firms, I was hired as a law professor for Barry University, teaching Civil Procedure and Advanced Legal Writing.

However, the paper also suggests that there are reasons to believe that non-lawyer ownership will not lead to significant access gains because (i) those in need of civil legal services often have few resources and, for them, legal aid is the answer, (ii) non-lawyer ownership is likely to be attracted to profitable sectors of the market, (iii) some legal services require the individualized attention of an experienced practitioner who charges high rates and the traditional worker owned partnership model may be the better approach in this context and (iv) there may be reasons other than price causing people not to address civil legal needs.

Issue 12 of the News & Views on Civil Justice Reform, from the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, released a few days ago, has a piece by Jordan Furlong, «This is Not the End of Lawyers... but this is the End of the Traditional Legal Business Model» [PDF], responding to an excerpt from Richard Susskind's book, The End of Laywers?

In its report published in 2014 the influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found that that there were 53 local authority areas in which fewer than 50 face to face civil legal aid cases had been started and in 14 other areas none at all had commenced.

Whilst cohabitees do enjoy legal protection in several areas, they still have significantly fewer rights than couples who are married or in civil partnerships.

The European Parliament committee for Justice and Civil Liberties (LIBE) also tried to come up with alternatives (again, drafted by Voss» own party colleagues) that would safeguard fundamental rights by removing reference to «content recognition technologies,» and no fewer than six national governments are so concerned about the idea that they have requested legal advice.

However, cases are few in which both spouses remain civil, no issues arise, and no legal assistance is needed to ensure that they are treated fairly now and in the future.

Co-sponsored by Community Legal Services and the Maricopa County Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers Program makes it possible for attorneys to provide a few hours of service or advice regarding civil law matters.

Our legal system has enshrined very few of the rights contained in the two main international human rights treaties, on economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights.

Even though these new laws are not slated to go into effect for a few months, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has already filed a legal challenge to the Arkansas measure.