Sentences with phrase «improving access to justice»

As Malcolm points out, Robinson thus rightly calls for a contextualized analysis of the prospects for improving access to justice via ABS.

The answers to improving access to justice are (1) greater public education which can be easily and disinterestedly (as opposed to self - serving ads by firms) delivered by the Law Society at remarkably modest cost per member, and (2) legislative amendments to the litigation process.

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.

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.

Improving access to justice focus of legal aid survey Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 2:19 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government 13 June 2006

This research shows that strategies for improving access to justice must focus much more on scarcity.

Another relatively large grant, of $ 194,322, was given to McGill University's Paul - André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, for a project to produce «linguistic and legal tools intended to contribute to improving access to justice in English in Quebec» for jurists, law students and translators.

SBM's A Lawyer Helps aims to do just that in a sustained way by persistently highlighting the real - life stories of our members» improving access to justice and contributing to the betterment of their communities.

While these are important ways that the legal community is improving access to justice, they are by no means a comprehensive solution.

Legal Action Group (LAG) is a national charity committed to improving access to justice.

The new Child and Youth Legal Centre presents a very significant development in improving access to justice for children in British Columbia.

Earlier in 2017 the Canadian Bar Association released a national Child Rights Toolkit with a view to improving access to justice for children in Canada.

However, as a practical step in improving access to justice, this decision will result in more people — in particular, women, disabled people, First Nations people and immigrants, who are less likely be able to afford hearing fees — gaining access to the justice system without having to compromise their everyday cost of living.

That said, no matter what barriers remain in the overall pursuit of improving access to justice, we must continue to do all we can to ensure knowledge of the law is accessible to those who seek it out.

By this vote, the law society «has sent a strong message that the train of full and total commitment to improving access to justice has left the station and that it will not stop until all Canadian law societies have embarked upon the journey,» said one official.

The national umbrella organization of PLEI providers, PLEAC (Public Legal Education Association of Canada), functions as a «nation - wide, member - driven association committed to improving access to justice through public legal education.»

But even among lawyers with an awareness of the presence and mission of the PLEIs, a dismissive attitude about the benefit of public legal education as a means of improving access to justice can surface.

If more than half of Canadian youth intend in the first instance to use private company complaint processes to mobilize their privacy rights when violated, we should be paying much more attention to these complaint processes as sites for improving access to justice.

«We applaud the provincial government for its ongoing commitment to improving access to justice, and we look forward to working with Legal Aid Ontario on expanding the availability of community legal services across the province.»

For many years, West Coast LEAF has been involved in improving access to justice.

G3ict, an advocacy initiative created by the United Nations to support digital inclusivity, submitted a paper this week on improving access to justice for persons with disabilities through technology.

These objectives include: protecting and promoting the public interest, supporting the constitutional principle of the rule of law, improving access to justice, protecting and promoting the interests of consumers of legal services, and promoting competition in the provision of legal services.

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

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).

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 birthday.

I am a big believer in technology improving access to justice.

The legal chatbots, and other online apps and services geared towards improving the access to justice have seen quite a bit of success.

Improving access to justice requires lawyers and law firms to find new ways of doing business that make legal services more affordable and accessible to Nova Scotians.

The Legal Resources Foundation, with the support of the EU under the Zimbabwe Justice Sector Programme, is offering legal training to traditional leaders with the aim of improving access to justice for rural communities in Zimbabwe, particularly those who are marginalised and vulnerable.

An Edinburgh - based legal tech start - up is looking for law firms and social sector organisations that want to put into action a new generation of chat bots aimed at helping clients and improving access to justice.

«With an eye on improving access to justice in rural Alberta, our goal is to develop further streams of the Justice Bus to expose a more students to different aspects of the practice of law in rural Alberta.»

Improving access to justice in Nova Scotia requires cooperation throughout the justice system.

Five lawyers and trainees at Howard Kennedy — Anastasia Demetriou, Adam Fellows, Ajay Prithwi, Nikita Sellers and Phoebe Morris — are proposing Avattorney, a virtual reality lawyer service intended to be accessible to all, improving access to justice for clients and work / life balance for lawyers.

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

Furthermore, all of our software applications — including ISA — are designed and developed in a perspective of simplicity, sharing and flexibility, which is consistent with our overarching objective of improving access to justice through technology.

The stuff about improving access to justice are should rules, meaning you aren't subject to sanction for not doing them.

They are consistent in their work and in their commitment to preserving and improving access to the justice system.

The views of Alberta legal professionals on important current issues in family law favour change and improving access to justice to a greater degree than those of their counterparts in the rest of Canada and are surprisingly at odds with Alberta's generally conservative social values.

Joining forces among legal aid boards in this way, developing international quality standards, and thus improving access to justice, is the dream of Peter van den Biggelaar, director of the Dutch legal aid board.

«Improving access to justice is a key part of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Improving access to justice and legal representation is a mobilising force for Josh and something that makes him excited where Consensus will go in the future.

«We should be very proud of this site and the commitment it represents to improving access to justice in this province,» said Mr. Daley.

It has shown its value in financing litigation for corporates and institutions and improving access to justice for smaller investors in David and Goliath cases.

It sheds a light on the challenge that the legal field faces with taming technology and adopting it as a solid and functional component for the sake of improving access to justice.

«Two years ago, when I was first elected, the goal I set was to define a new role for the law society in improving access to justice,» says Conway.

The ultimate goal of the AJRN is to create a community of justice stakeholders who are committed to improving access to justice in Canada.

Variations of this model include the creation of articling positions for duty counsel in Small Claims, Legal Corps dedicated to improving access to justice, clerkships in Family Court, and increasing funds to legal clinics in order to hire students.

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.

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.

A national retail law firm would need a much different model than a national corporate law firm, particularly if improving access to justice is a goal.