Sentences with phrase «has no access to justice problems»

We already know that this is untrue — otherwise we wouldn't have an access to justice problem in this country.

Justice Pazaratz is undoubtedly correct that Canada has an access to justice problem.

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All that has been written and said in relation to the «access to justice» problem — that is, the fact that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost — fails to contain the necessary solution.

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.

The primary problem regarding access to justice solutions has already been that of political economy.

While it could be argued that wholesale distribution of law will create more retail (free or low cost) legal information distribution points and thus increase access to justice — indeed, it would solve many of the closed problems of legal information that I listed above — I'm now not entirely convinced that this is the only way to go for state government publication efforts.

While the problem of access to justice has more than one cause (and so must be addressed in more than one way), the cost of lawyers seems increasingly to be part of the problem.

Also relevant is the fact, as acknowledged elsewhere by the LSUC, that Ontario has a serious access to justice problem (see also the recent work of the CFCJ).

Recent reports have underscored that access to justice is everyone's problem yet the issue fails to resonate with the public — they indicate low confidence and a sense of alienation.

That has not yet occurred in law around any facet of the access to justice problem, as far as I can tell.

I just have one problem with this article — saying that at law society law libraries the public are not welcome — that is not true — law society libraries have embraced access to justice initiatives that allow for members of the public to come and use the resources on site.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions, debt collections, foreclosures — even lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly, with both sides of a dispute having access to an attorney.

For months, representatives from the Access to Justice Commission and legal aid groups have been meeting with members of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and the Governor's staff to talk about two things: how legal aid can help Wisconsin residents resolve their legal problems more efficiently and how that assistance helps the state save money.

Last but certainly not least, with more than 1 in 4 respondents (26 %) having experienced a stress - related illness and more than 1 in 5 respondents (21 %) reporting the loss of employment or need to relocate as a result of their legal problem, Global Insights on Access to Justice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sJustice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sjustice issues on people's lives.

The answer is that this Government has no interest at all in maintaining access to justice because, as the defendant, it sees this as the problem itself.

As the challenges and realities of the SRL explosion have become clearer, I have been shocked by the strength of the resistance not only to responsive change but even to accepting that there is an Access to Justice problem that needs to be understood and addressed.

Regina lawyer Alex Shalashniy said during the CBA Legal Futures Initiative's Twitter chat Tuesday night that he's heard lawyers admitting they would be unable to pay their own fees if they needed a lawyer — something he calls a «telling illustration» of the access to justice problem in Canada.

Second, a central theme in the current access to justice debate has been the idea that there should be a culture shift in Canada's justice system away from being organized around the provision of legal services towards a client - centred and problem - oriented model.

That strikes straight to the heart of the access to justice conundrum: everyone has lots of ideas about what the basic problems are and what could be done to fix them, but there appears to be more eagerness to discuss the issue than to deal with it.

Mr Mercer says he has avoided asking, for present purposes, «the extent to which the complexity of the administration of justice is part of the access problem.»

We need new approaches in the quiver of access of justice services to address the vast majority of legal problems experienced by the public that are, from the point of view of the people experiencing them, serious and difficult to resolve and that have negative consequences if they are not dealt with.

As many judges and now the Governor General have reminded us, we have an Access to Justice crisis which is a demand side problem.

Based on the above, the OPC view is that since search engines already engage in the indexing activity and are covered under PIPEDA, they should have the obligation to de-index and takedown «because the problems that need addressing arise from their own actions; and because it promotes access to justice.»

The question of how much public pressure would be required to improve the historically stubborn problem of adequate funding for legal aid and other access to justice services is a separate issue that can be set aside for now.

At the recent Canadian Bar Association in Saskatoon Chief Justice McLachlin reiterated her oft - noted position that access to justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these Justice McLachlin reiterated her oft - noted position that access to justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these justice is a major problem in Canada (as reported here, e.g.) The Supreme Court has in these sorts of public statements been a leader in these issues.

«I have spoken about how access to justice on both the civil side and the criminal side is the most pressing problem facing our justice system.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to have credibility:

I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your legal problem or your life problem with legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice problems are access to lawyer problems.

Ben Burton: Yeah, so the first half of the book is a description of the access to justice problem in both the civil courts and the criminal courts explaining how we've gotten there, explaining the solutions that we've tried and why they failed.

The steady increase in lawyer numbers nationwide has not solved the access to justice problem, mainly because the underlying economics of law school and law practice have not changed.

LAG would suggest that, if the government is serious about access to justice it needs to put back capacity into the system so that these people can get early advice on their legal problems.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

CLOC believes passionately that innovation, technology, collaboration and legal process management can make the legal profession more efficient and answerable to business demands So while CLOC attendees might worry and be concerned over the severe access to justice (A2J) problem we have in this country, its not necessarily the mission of the organization.

This concept of access to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewaccess to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viejustice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

In my specialized roles as a limited retainer lawyer and as a legal research professional, I have an insight into a problem that has long posed a challenge to the legal community: access to justice for those who can not afford to retain a lawyer to take full carriage of a file.

The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, has also said the country has a «serious problem» with access to justice and that society will fragment without access to justice, as reported by Legal Voice.

Lack of A2J Threatens Us All Reason number 5: we frankly have an embarrassing access to justice problem and while we can continue to ignore it, we have some responsibility to our profession and to the public, who has extended to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections.

As a lawyer who has worked in small claims courts, my clients need for affordable access to justice is a problem I have struggled with.

They have «Access to Justice» committees, and they express «concern» about the problem, but nothing has happened during all the decades during which this problem has been inflicting more damage in one day than have all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers in the whole history of Canada, coast to coast to coast.

For Pete's sake, let us deal with the real access to justice problems, problems that ABS has proven almost entirely incapable of dealing with.

I can not disagree with much of the author's analysis, but I have a fundamental problem with the idea that access to justice strategies need to be «shared by all».

So far in this discussion (after 63 posts) I haven't seen anybody refer to what the judges have to say about any of the array of various long - standing access to justice problems.

So let's skip forward to the here and now to see how much progress has been made regarding «expert witness battles» as an access to justice problem.

The theme of my paper is that unless law societies solve the, «access to justice, unaffordable legal services causing lawyers to be short of clients problem,» they will never have a persuasive answer to the argument that the resulting conflict of interest should bar them from being the regulators of non-lawyer providers of legal services.

If it were not, the great volume of literature that has been written about this «access to justice» problem since 2007 would not have been published, and the disturbingly high and increasing percentages of unrepresented litigants whom judges are warning are clogging their courts, would not be happening.»

In the United Kingdom, academics Hazel Genn and others have used research about justiciable problems to reorient how access to justice policy is developed, making it more focused the paths to justice available to users for resolving their problems.

Of course you should — nobody would quibble with that — but how does stating the obvious help inform the discussion — a discussion which began with Mr. Kowalski's invitation to OTLA to elaborate on its ardent anti-ABS stance and to offer up alternative solutions to the array of problems undermining access to justice.

Let us hope that more and more past supporters will have the courage of epiphany and (1) give up trying to deliver ownership of our profession to those who do not and can not share our ethos, and (2) work toward improving access to justice by tackling the real problems.