We discuss how lawyers benefit
from public access to law and how they can help increase it.
Not exact matches
No Jewish organization supported the Equal
Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into
law and allowed religious students a platform
from which
to inject religion into the
public high school environment.
While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the
public's right
to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities
to justify the total closure of information related
to the names of
public officials
from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international
law, and would promote secret recoveries.»
In the suit, they argue that the bill was only able
to pass because state officials violated Open Meeting
Laws, the senate suspended rules
to prevent people
from speaking, lobbyists and
public advocates were denied
access to the Senate chamber, and the Governor unjustifiably issued a message of necessity on the bill.
The amicus brief cited examples
from an array of groups increasingly using
public records
laws to gain
access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking
to expose the emails of scientists in efforts
to demonstrate links
to industry.
The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open
access to faculty
from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard
Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of
Public Health.
So how on earth did we go
from having one of the «best» campaign finance reform
laws in the nation
to a campaign in which Malloy gets $ 6.2 million in
public funds, while
accessing another $ 10 million or more in campaign donations including money
from state contractors and others who personally benefit
from the governor's policies.
A credit repair business and its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt
to sell the services of a credit repair business, shall not do any of the following: (1) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior
to full and complete performance of the services that the credit repair business has agreed
to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; (2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer
to a retail seller or
to any other credit grantor who will or may extend credit
to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended
to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available
to the general
public; (3) Represent that it can directly or indirectly arrange for the removal of derogatory credit information
from the consumer's credit report or otherwise improve the consumer's credit report or credit standing, provided, this shall not prevent truthful, unexaggerated statements about the consumer's rights under existing
law regarding his credit history or regarding
access to his credit file; (4) Make, or counsel or advise any consumer
to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and which is known or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known,
to be untrue or misleading,
to a consumer reporting agency or
to any person who has extended credit
to a consumer or
to whom a consumer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect
to a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; or (5) Make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business.
And current state
laws permit incumbent board members
access to the corporate treasury, allowing them
to spend millions of dollars,
to hire lawyers and
public relations firms, run ads and mail materials
to prevent shareholders
from adding their designees
to the board of directors.
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to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected
to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected
to the Sites, or attempt
to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation
accessing data
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to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used
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to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or
from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary
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Because a recent trend in state legislation has been
to enact
laws that rely on AWA violations
to weed out «bad actors» by prohibiting the sale of dogs
from facilities with serious, documented violations, preventing consumers, pet stores and the
public from readily
accessing this information makes it nearly impossible
to comply with these
laws and
to ensure that they are being enforced
Ps — the folks @ the nusa dua bar and grill are the good guys, same with the local warungs at pantai Geger (and the seaweed farmers) The Hotel MULIA has breeched the 100 metre
Law, and developed up
to the waters edge and beyond with ungly man made creek (that stops
public access to the beach)..., for their stormwater??? drain into the ocean and an ugly unatural rock groyne
to keep the natural flow of sand away
from their septic / rancid manmade creek
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to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages
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UCS» report laments scientists at
public universities, research institutes, and federal agencies are subjected
to demands for information under a variety of state open - records
laws and the 1967 federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed
to hold government agencies accountable by providing the
public with
access to records
from any federal agency.
In some provinces, the
public is offered a minimum of service (basic directional services
from a librarian,
access to print resources only) only at the central
law society library, clearly out of reach of the vast majority of the population.
The Declaration on Free
Access to Law affirms: that public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other pa
Access to Law affirms: that public legal information from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parti
Law affirms: that
public legal information
from all countries and international institutions is part of «the common heritage of humanity;» that maximizing
access to this information promotes justice and the rule of law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other pa
access to this information promotes justice and the rule of
law; that public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right to publish public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide access to it so that it can be published by other parti
law; that
public legal information is «digital common property» and should be accessible
to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge; and that organizations (such as legal information institutes) have the right
to publish
public legal information and the government bodies that create or control that information should provide
access to it so that it can be published by other pa
access to it so that it can be published by other parties.
The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email
to or
from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email
to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password
to the email account, or
to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates
to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email
from a
public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a
public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may
access it on devices that are potentially accessible
to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other
law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.
1898)(«no one can obtain the exclusive right
to publish the
laws of a state»)(Harlan, J., sitting by designation); Nash v. Lathrop, 142 Mass. 29, 6 N.E. 559 (Mass. 1886)(«Every citizen is presumed
to know the
law thus declared, and it needs no argument
to show that justice requires that all should have free
access to the opinions, and that it is against sound
public policy
to prevent this, or
to suppress and keep
from the earliest knowledge of the
public the statutes or the decisions and opinions of the justices.»).
We find interesting stories and court cases
from Washington state and other places about the
Public Records Act, Open
Public Meetings Act,
access -
to - court rulings, and media
law.»
What's especially noteworthy about Free the
Law, though, and what distinguishes it
from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with free,
public access to them, on the conviction that
access to legal information promotes
access to justice.
The decision states that while court hearing fees are permissible in principle, those that present «undue hardship»
to litigants, such that they are discouraged
from accessing the court system, violate core jurisdictional principles within the Constitution: «The historic task of the superior courts is
to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and
public law.
University of British Columbia President Stephen J. Toope today announced a $ 6 million grant
from the
Law Foundation of British Columbia
to benefit
public access to justice and student learning in B.C.
Members of the
public face many common barriers resulting
from the complexity, overlap and fragmentation of
laws, systems and bureaucracies that they must deal with in order
to access justice.
Developed under the auspices of Research4Life, a
public - private partnership that brings free or low cost online
access to academic and professional peer - reviewed content
to developing countries, and spearheaded by Teresa Miguel - Sterns of the Yale
Law Library, GOALI is launching with more than 10,000 titles
from more than 60 publishers.
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Following
law school, Ms. O'Rear worked for Legal Aid of East Tennessee under a fellowship from the National Association of Public Interest Law intended to increase access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East Tenness
law school, Ms. O'Rear worked for Legal Aid of East Tennessee under a fellowship
from the National Association of
Public Interest
Law intended to increase access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East Tenness
Law intended
to increase
access to civil legal services in two rural communities in East Tennessee.
The funds come
from the
Law Foundation's «Family
Law Access to Justice Fund,» and will be used by the NSLRP
to partner with local
public libraries.
The national legislature may thus possess discretion
to determine criteria
to be satisfied by organisations
to be able
to challenge an infringement of environmental
law; however, the very obligation
to guarantee
access to justice was, for the Advocate General, sufficiently clear
to preclude a rule with the effect of excluding certain categories of non-legislative decisions taken by
public authorities
from the possible scope of review (para 94).
I've been thinking about this idea since and come
to the conclusion that while it makes sense
from the perspective of the
public and more closely reflects the unofficial versions of the
law on services such as CanLII or in print consolidations like practitioners» criminal codes that make
accessing the
law simpler, it would increase the distance between the
laws and the legislative process that created them, making them worse records.
Primary sources of
law being now available
from different paying services and free
public Web sites providing
access to resources as well, what will happen of librarians?
While groups such as SPARC continue
to develop and advocate for open
access to journal literature, and I think time develop a strategic direction and platform in Canada for open access to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mat
access to journal literature, and I think time develop a strategic direction and platform in Canada for open
access to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mat
access to legal scholarship that follows logically
from the Montreal Declaration on
Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal mat
Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open
access to legal mat
access to legal material.
The DIFC Courts are independent
from, but complementary
to, the UAE's Arabic - language civil
law system — offering a choice that strengthens both processes while ensuring
public access to world - class justice.
Comparing the present matter
to Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [2014] 3 SCR 31, 2014 SCC 59 (CanLII), the Court of Appeal noted at para. 51 that, whereas the hearing fees in that case «actually bar
access to the superior courts» by preventing ``... some individuals
from having their private and
public law disputes resolved by the courts», the «proper balance» is achieved by the legislature with respect
to civil jury fees:
the barriers
to entry [
to law practice] exist simply
to protect lawyers
from competition with non-lawyers and firms that are not lawyer - owned — competition that could reduce legal costs and give the
public greater
access to legal assistance.
The goal is
to bring the legal industry together, world - wide,
to apply innovative ideas and emerging technologies
to progress the business of
law, or
to facilitate
access to the
law from the
public.
Further, Responsive
Law continued, the definition of what it is to practice law also needs to change and unauthorized practice of law regulations need to be modified so that greater access to legal help from multiple sources, not just lawyers, is available to the publ
Law continued, the definition of what it is
to practice
law also needs to change and unauthorized practice of law regulations need to be modified so that greater access to legal help from multiple sources, not just lawyers, is available to the publ
law also needs
to change and unauthorized practice of
law regulations need to be modified so that greater access to legal help from multiple sources, not just lawyers, is available to the publ
law regulations need
to be modified so that greater
access to legal help
from multiple sources, not just lawyers, is available
to the
public.
When: Quarterly events
from 5:30 pm — 7:30 pm (Las Vegas) and 4:30 pm — 6:30 pm (Henderson) Where: Las Vegas Rescue Mission, 480 W. Bonanza Road or St. Timothy's Church in Henderson, 43 West Pacific Ave.. In conjunction with UNLV's
Public Interest
Law Association (PILA), Friends in the Desert and Las Vegas Rescue Mission, volunteer attorneys are needed
to provide brief consultations
to homeless individuals
accessing services at various sites in the community.
The ten model objectives include, among others, «protection of the
public,» «advancement of the administration of justice and the rule of
law,» «meaningful
access to justice and information about the
law,» «independence of professional judgment,» and «diversity and inclusion among legal services providers and freedom
from discrimination for those receiving legal services and in the justice system.»
The 7th National Pro Bono Conference will bring together lawyers, paralegals,
law students, judges, politicians, government representatives, non-profit sector leaders, academics and the
public from Canada, the US and abroad
to share ideas and best practices for increasing
access to justice for all members of society.
From legal service providers
to access -
to - justice commissions (and everything in between), this guide will walk you through the world of
public interest
law.
The
Access to Justice Technology Fellowship program today named its 2017 class of ATJ Tech Fellows, recognizing 8 exceptionally creative and diverse
law students
from across the nation with a passion for technology and
public interest
law.
Applications such as that for
access to Prince Charles» «black spider memos» would be «doomed
to failure» if they were
to be made in future, according
to Mark Elliott, Reader in
Public Law, Cambridge University, since «s 37 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 was amended in 2010 so as
to render communications with the heir
to the throne absolutely exempt
from disclosure».
The idea that environmental claims warrant different treatment arises principally
from the UNECE Convention on
Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
Access to Information,
Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
Public Participation in Decision - making and
Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the
public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
public have
access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
access to administrative or judicial procedures
to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and
public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.&
public authorities which contravene provisions of its national
law relating
to the environment.»
wouldn't tell the
public that the problem is not the
Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoriti
Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the
public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume
to be a true support service, able
to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise
to solve the problem, nor are they trying
to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other
law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoriti
law societies
to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of
Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoriti
Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in
access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate author
access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of
Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate author
Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the
Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoriti
Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives
to lawyers, such as
law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoriti
law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary
to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions
from its representative functions,
to be exercised by separate authorities.
In the event that the National Library and Archives does make case
law databases
from commercial publishers subject
to Legal Deposit, the question then arises as
to what, if any,
public access should be given
to those databases.
From Silicon Beach
to downtown L.A., our students have
access to clerkships, externships and career options with
law and business firms,
public interest agencies, and entertainment, media and technology firms.
Entitled «Seeing the Need, Taking the Lead,» the 7th National Pro Bono Conference will bring together lawyers, paralegals,
law students, judges, politicians, government representatives, non-profit sector leaders, academics and the
public from Canada, the US and abroad
to share ideas and best practices for increasing
access to justice for all members of society.
The June 21, 1993 Lugano Convention on civil liability for damage resulting
from activities dangerous
to the environment, the November 4, 1998 Strasbourg Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal
law and the June 23 and 25, 1998 Aarhus Convention on
access to information,
public participation in decision making and
access to justice in environmental matters underline this requirement and give the judiciary a central role in the enforcement of environmental
law.
From a policy analysis perspective, one appreciates the different approaches each
law society brings
to the table and the complicated socio - economic analysis that would be required
to balance justice
access and
public protection.