Sentences with phrase «improving access to civil»

and to report within 2 years, making recommendations for changes with a view to improving access to civil justice in Scotland, promoting early resolution of disputes, making the best use of resources, and ensuring that cases are dealt with in ways which are proportionate to the value, importance and complexity of the issues raised.

What does this finding suggest for improving access to civil justice?

Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, in order to develop consensus and priorities around improving access to civil and family justice in Canada, while also encouraging cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders in the justice system.

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.

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 system.

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 Matters.

He is the current president of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been active in fundraising efforts to assist various legal organizations as part of his commitment to improving access to civil justice for Alabama's most needy citizens.

He will introduce separate bills that would improve access to civil - service gigs for thousands of graduating seniors across the city.

For 36 years, VLS has been on a mission to improve access to the civil justice system.

Amiqus is building online tools to improve access to civil justice.

Since 1998, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has developed a number of online resources and databases which are designed to increase understanding about the civil justice system, and ultimately to improve access to civil and family justice.

CONAF recognizes that difficulty obtaining vital documents such as birth and marriage certificates is a significant obstacle to accessing public services and claiming basic rights — especially for women and children in rural communities — and will carry out a series of capacity building and educational activities over the course of the next year to improve access to civil registry.

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Hudson and Goodhand called on the HHS Office for Civil Rights to explicitly say that the regulation «includes variant calls» — decisions about whether a variant is benign, for example — «and raw sequencing files, giving patients the right under HIPAA to routinely access them and thus contribute to research and improved health.»

Since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, the government and major international organizations seek new ways to improve education access and quality for the tea plantation community.

I believe that if implemented and enforced the way Congress intended, ESSA will improve access to high - quality, equitable education for all students and will uphold the civil rights legacy of the law.

The Civil Rights Project's Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) is dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for children from subgroups who have been discriminated against historically due to their race / ethnicity, and who are frequently subjected to exclusionary practices such as disciplinary removal, over-representation in special education, and reduced access to a college - bound curriculum

Winkler has spent much of his career on the bench pushing for improved access to fair, timely, and affordable civil litigation in the justice system and he continues to fight that battle.

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.

I suspect that the real heavy lifting in enhancing access to justice is a matter of procedural reform — specialized decision - making bodies with extremely simplified procedural rules for specific civil law issues (something that actually already exists in certain areas such as Landlord / Tenant, but could be further improved upon), wider permissions for over-the-counter motions, fewer unnecessary court appearances, fewer procedurally - mandated appearances (e.g., going from a Case Conference to a Settlement Conference to a Trial Management Conference, and possibly further, before you can get to a family law trial), and so on.

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 -LSB-...]

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.

Lord Justice Briggs» Civil Court Structure Review proposed the new online court and said it would improve access to justice and be simpler for people to use than the current court system.

My parents are from Eritrea, Ethiopia, so they were learning a whole new system: the American culture, our system here, and improving their English in addition to learning about disability access, braille, the civil rights movement, that sort of thing.

The main objectives of Bill 28, An Act to establish the new Code of Civil Procedure (which is explained in my previous post here), are to modernize court procedures and processes, improve public confidence in the court system and make access to justice more efficient, simpler, faster and less costly.

The country's first Community Legal Advice Centre (CLAC) which aims to improve access to publicly funded civil legal advice for local residents, has been launched.

It may seem an odd proposition that the Woolf reforms, with their legitimate aims of improving access to justice and reducing the cost of civil litigation, have, 10 years on, failed a constituency many would argue least worthy of assistance in the first place.

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.

One of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice's primary mandates is improving access to justice.

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.

The Society is engaged in similar dialogue at the national level, through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is working to improve access to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Maaccess to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family MaAccess to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

This video provides an overview of the Tennessee Supreme Court's Justice for All Initiative, an effort to improve greater access to the courts in civil legal matters.

On October 24 2015, Senegalese NGO CONAF — the National Committee for Literacy and Training — convened civil society representatives, public health practitioners, village chiefs, civil registry officials, and religious leaders at the launch ceremony for its program to improve women and children's access to civil registry in the region of Diourbel.

As a part of our ongoing effort to improve the delivery of civil legal services for Wisconsin residents in need, the Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission has begun working with the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, Army OneSource, and our other stakeholders to develop additional legal resources for assisting our veterans.

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.

(2013); Improving Access to Justice through Collective Actions, Civil Justice Council (2008).

As work to improve access to justice in civil and family matters continues to gain momentum across Canada, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in Caccess to justice in civil and family matters continues to gain momentum across Canada, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in Cacivil and family matters continues to gain momentum across Canada, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in CAccess to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in CaCivil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in CAccess to Justice in Canada.

At the intersection of access to justice and innovation, ATJ Tech Fellows will spend their summer working on innovative projects and initiatives aimed to improve our civil justice system.

Stating «There is a difference between the improving the delivery of legal services and access to justice» I believe the later seeks to serve those most marginalized by our civil justice system.

The Press Release states that «Improving access to justice for all Ontarians begins with better, easy - to - use legal information,» a point made by lawyers, the judiciary, legal organizations, the 2007 Osborne Civil Justice Report and the 2008 Trebilcock Legal Aid Review.

Civil Justice Committee The Civil Justice Committee (CJC) report, Improving Access to Justice Through Collective Actions, was published last December, and noted that the aims of private enforcement and regulation differ and that there was a role for both.