Sentences with phrase «from justice system»

Community reintegration services for those with co-occurring mental health and substance related disorders who are transitioning from the justice system

Back into the dark days of 1970s and 1980s the Irish routinely received rough justice from our justice system, a point made by Paul May, who chaired the Birmingham Six campaign and has run countless others since then from Eddie Gilfoyle to Sam Hallam.

• Most often the reasons people give for staying away from the justice system are doubts that it would help, concern about cost, a sense the problem was not serious enough, or a desire to handle matters on their own.

This master's program was developed to address the demand from justice system personnel for a graduate level degree in the area of justice management.

The Equity & Access Office has partnered with Avalon Sexual Assault Centre to provide education sessions for lawyers that help participants recognize the signs of trauma in their clients; provide suggestions for mitigating re-traumatization from the justice system; and identify the supports and services available for sexual assault survivors in Nova Scotia.

My worry is that as a society we are now turning away from the rule of law, lawyers, and even from the justice system.

Almost everyone will experience a legal problem at some point in their lives, but until that happens, most people don't know what to expect from the justice system, the benefits of different paths and legal services and so on.

This is a picture of justice denied; of ordinary people cut off from the justice system.

The most interesting finding of the study was that «nearly half of all low income people with a legal problem did not seek legal assistance because they did not know that there were laws to protect them or that relief could be obtained from the justice system.»

«Bereft families deserve better from the justice system when their loved ones» deaths could and should have been avoided.

Most believe that the rich and powerful get preferential treatment from the justice system.

Access to legal aid is reserved only for the very poorest, while the private bar is reserved only for the very richest, leaving the vast majority out in the cold facing not only exclusion from the justice system based on finances, but also based on knowledge given the complexity of the legal system and the inherent difficulties of self - representation.

«People feel that they are disconnected from the justice system and if this democracy has one institution that stabilizes society, it is the justice system,» the governor, a Democrat, continued.

«Secret arbitration takes away a woman's right to a trial by a jury of her peers and provides a dark alley for Uber to hide from the justice system, the media and public scrutiny,» according to the letter.

Despite recent awareness from justice systems of the importance of tackling sexual violence, the justice and social support needs of conflict and post-conflict survivors worldwide have not been addressed are poorly understood and the service responses are rarely carried out in a gendered or holistic manner Justice for survivors of sexual violence and torture is a long way off and yet its fulfilment is vital to their recovery.

Not exact matches

«Its report said the case could revive «accusations that the criminal justice system favoured those from the middle and upper classes.»

The case is the most important antitrust case since those that led to the breaking up of AT&T, completed in 1984, and the Department of Justice's attempt to block Microsoft from using its Windows operating system to monopolize software such as Web browsers on computers.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

Eugene Methvin, who has reported on the U.S. criminal justice system for more than forty years and who served (from 1983 - 1986) on the President's Commission on Organized Crime, has done extensive analysis on crime and punishment findings.

Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in BJustice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Bjustice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Britain.

Nationwide organization Showing Up for Racial Justice is seeking to mobilize churches across the country to separate themselves from the criminal justice Justice is seeking to mobilize churches across the country to separate themselves from the criminal justice justice system.

You intend to destroy her from within using our own justice systems and elected paid off officials who also have never served.

When this abuse is reported to the criminal justice system, it comes from parents or others.»

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

«I don't think the statements from the United States has had any impact either on this case as this is all going through the Iranian justice system, which is based on the law and evidence.»

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

In this respect, the Islamic economy resembles all other systems that claim to be serving the human being and realizing his social aspirations, but it differs from them in the details of its conception of social justice.

This ruling from within their justice system is more meaningful.

The sense of justice and fairness, including the justice systems the humans set up, originates from God.

But I'm also struck by how differently our culture — the American justice system to be specific — operates from this biblical truth.

Justice is not an abstract concept, but the perspective from which to judge the total system and structure of political and social relationship - the perspective of the poor and the weak.

There is a deficiency of justice not only Vitamin A. Land, farmers and food systems must be liberated from the control of corporate greed, GMOs and toxic products to combat malnutrition, hunger and poverty» said Nazareno.

That's right, the gang from Law & Order are back and in the football justice system there are two separate, but equally important sides: The players who are drafted, and the teams who select them.

As it reels from one decision to the next, the NFL and its teams are finding out just how hard it is to come up with a consistent and coherent policy of punishment for players beyond the justice system

A program with a narrow perspective — from any faith — may not do justice to the complexities of world affairs in which people of different faiths and belief systems interact.

The criminal justice system is still «distant from what most reasonable people want», Tony Blair said today.

While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.

The intolerable outbreak of crime we saw on the streets of our cities this summer shined a light on our youth justice system and the underlying reasons why young people sometimes feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from crime.

Or did these terrorists, who were mostly from Brussels and had been using Brussels as a base since before the Paris attacks, for many reasons, particularly disorganised security... justice system and intelligence services are split... six different police zones......

«I think the criminal justice system right now is dealing with the issue and let's see what comes from that.»

The Code of Conduct further provides in Rule 5 (B) that a judge may engage in «avocational activities», that is «activities to improve the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice if such avocational activities do not detract from the dignity of his office or interfere with the performance of his judicial duties».

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

They worked with local Youth Offending Teams to deal with young offenders through the Youth Justice System — from arrest to diversionary options or to charge.

Those who support raising the age when New Yorkers are treated as adults in the criminal justice system from 16 to 18 held a rally Tuesday at the Capitol.

Cuomo, saying there is a «crisis of confidence» in the criminal justice system, signed an executive order to have the state's attorney general take over from local district attorneys, anytime a unarmed civilian is killed in an encounter with police, and there are questions about what happened.

«From our experiences, we have an intimate knowledge and urgent concern about the fundamental problems plaguing New York's criminal justice system,» the letter, dated April 2, says.