Sentences with phrase «improved access to justice by»

It's great to see movement toward improved access to justice by more readily available, good quality open access material.

[62] She further argued for measures to make it easier to negotiate settlements in equal pay cases, for improved access to justice by waiving tribunal fees for a limited period, and to close loopholes whereby outsourcing and insecure working conditions often lead to unequal pay for women.

The legal help guide model deserves close attention from government and the bar as a means of improving access to justice by improving public legal literacy, a concept I've written about elsewhere.

Benyekhlef is the founder of both Lex Electronica, the first - ever online French - language journal and of Cyberjustice Laboratory, an international initiative based in Montreal that seeks to improve access to justice by putting information technology in the hands of the courts.

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.

Prizes were awarded to the top 3 solutions from 10 x 5 minute pitches that were most likely to improve access to justice by maximising efficiency for the centre and ease for clients to access legal advice.

A unified court will adapt and evolve rules specific to its needs and those of the families before it, and improve access to justice by establishing simplified forms and processes.

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.

The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) takes a system - wide approach to improve access to justice by bringing together all of the stakeholders — including legal aid organizations, the courts, law firms, and individual lawyers — to strengthen and improve Chicago's pro bono and legal aid system.

An Act to improve access to justice by amending the Solicitors Act to permit contingency fees in certain circumstances, to modernize and reform the law as it relates to limitation periods by enacting a new Limitations Act and making related amendments to other statutes, and to make changes with respect to the governance of the public accounting profession by amending the Public Accountancy Act

In the spring 2017, Knomos also acted as an advisor to student building legal apps to improve access to justice by helping leading organizations better serve their clients.

«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.»

The CPR were designed to improve access to justice by making legal proceedings cheaper, quicker, and easier to understand for non-lawyers.

Not exact matches

The news has been welcomed by disability rights campaigners and health groups, who say the new changes will improve access to justice.

We look forward to a robust and collaborative relationship with Governor - elect Murphy and Commissioner Repollet as we work together to support social justice in New Jersey by enhancing access to high - quality educational opportunity for all and improving the outcomes of education for all New Jersey's students.

The government has now accommodated those concerns to an extent by providing, in LSA 2007, s 83 (5)(b) that a licensing authority must, in its licensing rules — which are subject both to consultation and to LSB approval — provide for the ways in which it should, when considering an application for an ABS licence, take account of the regulatory objective of improving access to justice.

There is nothing preventing us from taking incremental steps to more effectively uphold the law by improving access to justice.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

The Florida Bar Foundation strives to provide greater access to justice in Florida by: expanding and improving representation and advocacy on behalf of low - income persons in civil legal matters; improving the fair and effective administration of justice; and promoting public service among lawyers by making it an integral component of the law school experience.

More than two - thirds of 165 experts surveyed by Bond Solon think the reforms will fail to achieve their goal of increasing access to justice, and only six per cent thought access would be improved.

All across Canada, judges, law societies, courthouses, schools, and professional bodies have been imploring the modernization of the court system in order to improve the administration of justice — and by extension, improve access to justice.

A greater focus on technology and strong leadership from the judiciary are both key to improving access to civil justice, according to a series of reports released yesterday by the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Maaccess to civil justice, according to a series of reports released yesterday by the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Mjustice, according to a series of reports released yesterday by the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family MaAccess to Justice in Civil and Family MJustice in Civil and Family Matters.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers... [more]

«It was inspired by the need to improve children's access to justice in Canada,» says Caterina Tempesta, Toronto - based counsel with the Office of the Children's Lawyer, with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

The idea that limited scope work could improve access to legal help has been cited by many reports on access to justice, but no one has ever conducted any empirical research to test the idea, says [/ span] John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in Calgary.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers.

Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low income families with children and secure access to our civil justice system by low income persons.

Earlier this year, Ms. Walwyn was appointed to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, which was convened by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, and is focused on improving access to the civil and family justice sAccess to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, which was convened by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, and is focused on improving access to the civil and family justice Justice in Civil and Family Matters, which was convened by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, and is focused on improving access to the civil and family justice Justice of Canada, and is focused on improving access to the civil and family justice saccess to the civil and family justice justice system.

Access to justice is improved not just by increasing access to attorneys but also by increasing access to useful information and technology that allows people to better represent themsAccess to justice is improved not just by increasing access to attorneys but also by increasing access to useful information and technology that allows people to better represent themsaccess to attorneys but also by increasing access to useful information and technology that allows people to better represent themsaccess to useful information and technology that allows people to better represent themselves.

In Europe, it is widely purchased by individuals and businesses, and is a great way to improve access to justice.

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission was created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the request of the State Bar of Wisconsin to aid the courts in improving the administration of jJustice Commission was created by the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the request of the State Bar of Wisconsin to aid the courts in improving the administration of justicejustice.

The aim of this innovation project is to cut annual spending by # 250m and staff by 40 %, while at the same time improving access to Justice, as well as the speed and quality of service delivery (e.g. by the use of online forms for petitions).

In a comment to the recent post by Patricia Hughes, Justice B. T. Granger of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice referred to a set of slides for a presentation he had given at the 2008 CBA Canadian Legal Conference in Quebec City entitled «The Future is Now: Improving Access to Justice: The Need for Lawyers and the Judiciary to Go Electronic.»

Based on the June 2010 Access to Sign - Language Interpretation in Community Legal Settings: Report to the Law Foundation of Ontario [pdf](«Sign Language Report») and the earlier Connecting Report by George Thomson and Karen Cohl, the LFO is inviting legal and community organizations to apply to its Access to Justice Fund for funding for projects that will improve access to sign - language interpretation in legal community setAccess to Sign - Language Interpretation in Community Legal Settings: Report to the Law Foundation of Ontario [pdf](«Sign Language Report») and the earlier Connecting Report by George Thomson and Karen Cohl, the LFO is inviting legal and community organizations to apply to its Access to Justice Fund for funding for projects that will improve access to sign - language interpretation in legal community setAccess to Justice Fund for funding for projects that will improve access to sign - language interpretation in legal community setaccess to sign - language interpretation in legal community settings.

But think of justice as being provided by law, so creating accessible laws is part of improving access to justice.

What's missing here is what OTLA offers by way of suggestions to improve access to justice (within its own turf) short of turning over its members» profits to private offshore monster interests (whoever they may be).

In contrast to OTLA's doing nothing in twenty years to improve access to justice for injured Ontario auto accident victims (only a fool would argue that CFAs by themselves make OTLA lawyers the poster boys and girls for affordable, quality lawyering) the OTLA machine has almost over-night ramped up a constitutional challenge to this private - interest (big insurance) home - grown governmental attack on its profits.

Our purpose is to promote access to justice for all Ontarians, preserve and improve the civil justice system, and advocate for the rights of those who have suffered injury and losses as the result of wrongdoing by others, while at the same time advocating strongly for safety initiatives.

Participants will be invited to design various tools to support online courts — for example, tools to help litigants structure their legal arguments, organise their documents, negotiate settlements without advisers, improve access to legal advice as well as systems that will promote open justice and even machine learning solutions that will help analyse all the data generated by the online courts.

Access to justice for everyday citizens can be dramatically improved by introducing platform technology that effectively opens courts to everyone.

Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low - income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.

Going back to Hansard transcripts, here's what the government said when it introduced the Arbitration Act, 1991: STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Hon Mr Hampton: One of the commitments this government has made to the people of Ontario is to improve access to justice in the province.

A collection of essays about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth bijustice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth biJustice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.

My point here is that rather than start ethics reform by randomly introducing less qualified, for - profit law practitioners into the market as specious proof that something is actually being done to improve access to justice, let's tackle the challenges that can and will move the needle; such as, modernization of the court system, increasing legal aid, and modernizing lawyer ethics rules that will enable lawyers and law firms to innovate and modernize the business and practice of law.

A government - appointed Legal Services Board was established to oversee regulation by reference to eight «regulatory objectives» which were, confusingly given equal priority (the public interest, supporting the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting consumers, promoting competition, encouraging a strong independent legal profession, increasing public understanding of citizens» rights and duties and maintaining a set of professional principles).

Consistent with NJP's commitment to combat injustice by improving access to our civil justice system, all NJP facilities are accessible, and NJP provides language and sign interpreters for persons needing assistance to access our services.

The survey can be completed on - line by any organization, institution or body that defines itself as engaging in activities designed to improve access to justice.

The social objective is to solve the legal industry's «wicked problems» — access to justice and defending the rule of law, among others — by the rapid development of solutions that will improve the legal industry globally.

NSRLP is well aware that present restrictions on the provision of family law assistance by paralegals limit assistance that could improve access to justice for Ontario family SRLs.