Sentences with phrase «helps ensure fairness»
The Shelby County Public Defender's Office released a statement Friday strongly condemning House Bill 241 and Senate Bill 1324, saying they «would dismantle fiscally sound legislation'that «helps ensure fairness» in an adversarial justice system.»
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«This new legislation is part of our overall commitment to fairness in Ontario's workplaces and will help ensure that women and other groups are treated equitably,» said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn.
«Campaign finance laws protect the integrity and fairness of elections and help ensure that everyone — not just the wealthy or powerful corporations — are represented in our system of government.
The Department of Consumer Protection is charged with ensuring a fair and equitable marketplace for consumers through various initiatives including scam alert and protections, licensing of plumbers and electrical engineers, helping consumers find the lowest gasoline and oil prices, ensuring accuracy of weights and measures, protecting consumers from the sale of unsafe children's products and other programs aimed to ensure fairness to Westchester's consumers.
«With this proposal, we can enhance fairness and protections for victims and survivors of sexual harassment in the workplace while helping to ensure that no one has to ever say the words «Me Too,» ever again,» Cuomo said in a statement.
«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»
«The agreement worked out among the governor, Speaker Silver and Majority Leader Skelos — a stark contrast with the political deadlock in Washington — will bring more fairness to the state tax code and help ensure that children in our public schools will begin to see restorations from the devastating education cuts of recent years,» he said.
The project will use well - tested and nationally adopted participatory land - use planning and forest management processes which can help resolve land use issues, clarify land tenure and resource use rights, and ensure greater consultation, fairness and consistency in land allocation and forest regulation and management.
In addition, guidelines for bias and sensitivity, accessibility and accommodations, and style help item developers and reviewers ensure consistency and fairness across the item bank.
Sharing interpretations of criteria for judging student work quality across classrooms and schools also helps to ensure fairness as teachers learn to hold each other to similar standards.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) helps ensure the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of the information provided by consumer reporting agencies.
However, we proactively secured an arbitration decision in Switzerland that endorsed the fairness of our mediated settlement agreements, helping ensure all former members of the club would pay their dues and their share of any liability.
«The Citizens team has listened to the needs of their clients in the legal community and done a great job coming up with an innovative solution that helps law firms ensure the fairness of our legal system by contributing to civil legal aid for low - income and vulnerable Ohioans,» said Angela Lloyd, Executive Director of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation.»
The applications of these fairness principles help ensure that the reasonable expectations of citizens with respect to their public bodies are met without incurring the weight of the judicial or quasi-judicial process.
For the sake of argument, we'll define ethics as the well - founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues; the study and development of one's standards and beliefs to ensure they're reasonable and well - founded; and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly - based.
As the state's oldest and largest non-profit, public interest law firm with offices statewide; Legal Aid helps ensure justice and fairness for all by providing civil legal aid to the most vulnerable in our society.
Adhering to basic concepts of procedural fairness during divorce, child custody proceedings and other family law matters, helps to ensure that those entering the courtroom come away from the process feeling they were treated fairly by the judicial system.