Sentences with phrase «how improved access to justice»

There remains lots to talk about how improved access to justice and legal services can be achieved without giving up ownership or bringing about an anti-competitive concentration of delivery (and this is where I pray the benchers will go).

Not exact matches

It is important not to take our foot off the gas and to consider further just how much the unbundling concept can improve access to justice.
Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.
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.
Raising the small claims cap is not the only mechanisms available (the Supreme Court in BC has «Fast Track» simplified procedures for claims under $ 100k), but I can see how a higher limit improves access to justice in at least three ways: 1.
The debate about how to improve access to justice most often discusses what lawyers and court institutions can do.
In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.
Billie's success demonstrates how an offering to improve both access to justice and a firm's bottom line is achievable.
How does extending the two - year limit (LT below) square with the recommendation to pick up the pace of litigation so often recommended in the improving «access to justice» chatter?
Access to justice is a common debated theme, most notably how to get the necessary resources to improve the accessibility to and of our judicial system.
The Envisioning Equal Justice initiative will bring together stakeholders to discuss how to meet their shared responsibility to improve access to justice, starting with a summit April 25 - 27 in VanJustice initiative will bring together stakeholders to discuss how to meet their shared responsibility to improve access to justice, starting with a summit April 25 - 27 in Vanjustice, starting with a summit April 25 - 27 in Vancouver.
The primary purpose of this research was to «identify how computerizing justice can improve access to it and increase its efficiency».
Last June I posted on how Canadian courts and creative counsel are using the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hryniak v. Mauldin to improve access to justice by crafting procedures to bring cases to trial in a more efficient and cost effective way.
Tune into Pro Bono Institute's newest podcast «CLO and Pro Bono Series» and listen to chief legal officers of Corporate Pro Bono Challenge ® signatories discuss the pro bono efforts at their departments and how they are working to improve access to justice.
We encourage you to add your voices about how to shape the future of commercial dispute resolution and improve access to justice in the 21st century.
It builds upon the efforts of the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable and the US Department of Justice Office for Access to Justice to demonstrate to federal agencies how civil legal aid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» affairs.
The Foundation is currently focused on the access to justice crisis; legal education — and more specifically the delta between academic training and market readiness; and how to harness technology to improve legal access and delivery, especially in the «retail» market segment.
CPBO's CLO & Pro Bono Podcast series is a collection of insightful discussions with chief legal officers of Corporate Pro Bono Challenge ® signatories about the pro bono efforts at their departments and how they are working to improve access to justice.
Joanna Sidhu discusses how crowdfunding can be applied to the law and how it can improve access to justice.
Katherine Alteneder will explain how we understand the range of IT solutions designed to improve access to justice.
People are realizing how much can be done to improve access to justice.
Participants explored the justice system from the «user» perspective and approach access to justice as a hands - on design challenge — they gathered the information needed on how the justice system works, imagined how best to respond to the gaps and weaknesses of the current system, and had to develop a prototype that will improve it.
«This project, made possible with a grant from the ABA Enterprise Fund, shows how we can harness the power and reach of the ABA to improve access to justice by providing much - needed legal assistance to vulnerable populations.»
February 21, 2017 — «The Law Foundation of Ontario has issued grants to the Winkler Institute at Osgoode Hall Law School and Ryerson University's Legal Innovation Zone so they can examine how technology and innovation can improve access to justice for young people.
In a survey distributed after the hackathon, several participants described how they made amazing personal and professional connections and learned how technology and innovation can be harnessed to improve access to justice.
If we're going to take advantage of the Internet as a tool to help lawyers connect with clients and improve access to justice we need to understand how people act online and offline, and why.
Her current work explores how human centered design can be used improve the delivery of legal services and examines the impacts of legal technology on the legal profession and access to justice.
Consider how increased involvement from in - house lawyers can improve the dialogue about legal services and access to justice (many of the things in - house counsel struggle with are barriers to justice for the average person), and start thinking about representation on your governing boards and how it might be restructured to better reflect the composition of those governed.
The question was: how could technology improve access to justice and provide viable solutions to families in these situations?
How the Federal Circuit Court can improve access to justice for Indigenous litigants Relationships Respect Opportunities Tracking progress and reporting
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