Sentences with phrase «improving access to legal»
The Government argument is that efficiency and improving access to legal services are the main priorities in the provision of legal services to Indigenous communities.
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The point is expanding and improving access to legal literature for the benefit of all who have a stake or interest in the research and its results, enhancing access to justice by facilitating access to legal information.
Justice Education Society the Justice Education Society (JES) has been dedicated to improving access to the legal system through hands - on, targeted, two - way education between the public and those working in the justice system.
In the first of these three Issues Papers («New Categories of Legal Services Providers» [80]-RRB-, the Commission sought feedback on whether persons (individuals, not companies or other organizations), referred to as «LSPs» should be allowed, via judicial authorization and regulation, «to perform discreet and limited legal tasks with the goal of improving access to legal services.»
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Birmingham Bar's Volunteer Lawyers Program and is committed to improving access to legal services for Alabama's low - income individuals.
«By allowing for the parsing of legal services in this way, they will be more affordable for more clients,» says Mr. Pink, noting that improving access to legal services in Nova Scotia is one of the Society's top strategic priorities.
CanLII's first Hackathon, for example, aimed to foster innovation in improving access to legal and public information.
As you correctly point out, the Benchers have elected to wait to see if, based on experience in England and elsewhere, the case for improving access to legal services through ABSs can be more clearly demonstrated.
Advanced technology is considered the new panacea for improving access to the legal system.
«There should be no glory in striving for diversity; it's about jointly improving access to the legal profession for the brightest and best irrespective of social advantage or other personal characteristics,» says Barry Matthews, director of legal affairs and third - party sales at ITV.
Legal insurance is an existing model that has proven successful in improving access to legal services.
About AccessLex Institute: AccessLex InstituteSM, in partnership with its nearly 200 nonprofit and state - affiliated ABA - approved Member law schools, has been committed to improving access to legal education and to maximizing the affordability and value of a law degree since 1983.
He will appoint a commission, to be co-chaired by the shadow attorney general, Lord Bach, and the former chief executive of a local Citizens Advice Bureau, Yvonne Fovargue MP to advise on improving access to legal aid.
TORONTO, November 6, 2015 — MaRS Discovery District and LegalRnD — The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law today announced a partnership dedicated to legal sector innovation and improving access to legal services.
Simply put, CanLII Connects was developed to improve access to legal commentary on Canadian court decisions.
Legal Aid of East Tennessee will improve access to legal information by creating a series of videos that provide low income people with on demand guidance on matters such as orders of protection, foreclosure, and other common legal issues.
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.
The Benchers of the Law Society are mindful of the potential benefits of ABSs and, in particular, improved access to legal services.
Linna hopes the index will also be a resource for law schools and law students and that, ultimately, it will help improve access to legal services by promoting opportunities for learning, research and collaboration.
AALL's New Product Award recognizes new commercial information products that enhance or improve existing law library services or procedures, or products that improve access to legal information, the legal research process, or procedures for the technical processing of library materials.
He's also involved with an initiative called Houston.AI which began with the realization that emerging technologies, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, had tremendous potential to improve access to legal services.
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.
However, all lawyers and Law Societies in Canada would be wise to heed the warnings in the last paragraph of that report: «where benefits to the consumer can be attained with proper regulation to ensure that professional values are not lost, the Law Society must develop proper regulation to allow for changes to the profession through which improved access to legal services can be attained.»
To promote legal excellence, high ethical standards and professional conduct in the practice of law; to improve access to legal services for all people in Ventura County; and to work to improve the administration of justice.
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 Matters.
June 10, 2016 — «As part of an initiative designed to improve access to legal services, the Tennessee Supreme Court has created a new way for attorneys to earn required CLE credit for doing pro bono work and the court has designated Nashville's Bass Berry & Sims as the first firm in the state to offer the program.
In 2013, the TIG program gave almost $ 3.4 million to 33 different projects providing a wide variety of services, including ««legal triage» tools to guide self - represented individuals through complex legal procedures, online support for pro bono attorneys, and improved access to legal assistance for people in remote areas.»
The ATJ Tech Fellows program is seeking diverse and entrepreneurial - minded law students who are passionate about social justice and want to spend the summer learning new ways to leverage technology in order to improve access to legal services for people who can't afford a lawyer.
The online law library collections we're building and partnering to build may be scattered initiatives, but we are progressing... towards a shared digital future of improved access to legal information.
The online law library collections we're building and partnering to build may be scattered initiatives, but we are progressing lock - step, in tandem, towards a shared digital future of improved access to legal information.
It honors the development of innovative products that improve access to legal information, the legal research process, or procedures for technical processing of library materials.
And law societies should be sponsoring innovations in the methods of doing the work to provide legal services comparable to what is being provided commercially by MaRS, and by MaRS LegaX and LgalRnD to improve access to legal services.
At the core, perhaps — is a need for an improved dialogue with government and the public about the very real business case to be made for improved access to legal assistance — which, in part, would include reducing barriers to becoming a lawyer.
There is a need to both improve access to legal services and to protect the value of existing legal service provision.
Strategies: Promote provision of community based recreation facilities; improve management of major sporting events; promote provision of appropriate cultural facilities; provide services which will improve social support for young people; improve management of substance abuse; provide facilities and services for families visiting Alice Springs; improve access to legal aid services; improve support for people detained in custody; provide improved rehabilitation for Aboriginal prisoners.
[50] The Commission also recommends improved access to legal services for women [51] and further reform of family law to better protect the safety of women and children.
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2001 — 2002 FRAC and anti-hunger and immigrant allies obtain further restoration of benefits for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, significantly improved access to benefits for working families, and other important improvements in the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002.
«Improving the legal right to freely access our coastline and beaches will deliver huge benefits,» said RA chairman Kate Ashbrook.
In legal papers, city officials insisted they are working aggressively to improve access for the disabled and described Burgdorf's report as «completely divorced from legal and operational realities.»
Special Education Legal Issues Laws and Legal Updates; Building Infrastructure to Serve a Full Continuum of Students with Exceptional Needs; Emerging Trends; Improving Access for Charter School Students and Preparing for LEA Status.
The City Strategic Plans on UPA drastically improved the legal status of urban producers and the security of their land use; better service provision to urban farmers (training and extension, veterinary services; improved access of urban producer groups to local sources of financing and credit)
Professor James Levy reports on the Legal Writing Prof Blog that he's still waiting for a promised password granting him free access to the new and improved Westlaw, officially known as WestlawNext, but still called «Project Cobalt» by some who presumably miss the halcyon days of double secret multi-billion dollar M&A due diligence.
«The Total Attorneys model makes Internet marketing affordable and time - efficient for small law firms and solo practitioners and improves consumer access to legal information and services,» he said.
Kari enjoys using her legal, mediation and management experience to encourage collaboration to improve BC citizens» access to viable and affordable conflict resolution options.
Failing to acknowledge that this latter possibility is still very much alive is particularly problematic given that, in some of your previous SLAW blogposts in support of allowing ABS, you have highlighted the emergence of the not - for - profit ownership model of ABS, in the form of Salvos Legal in Australia, as proof that ABS can contribute to improving access to justice.
Having the chance to combine the knowledge of computer engineers with deep understanding of the specifics of legal texts, a large set of legal decisions (there are over 2 million decisions from CanLII) already available in parsable format and the direct access to the knowledge and experience of one of the leading teams in AI worldwide, Lexum intends to improve once again the way legal information is made accessible in Canada.
Mary E. Juetten is putting her hopes on legal technology improving access - to - justice problems.
The potential for ABSs to improve access to justice lies in the likelihood that the new forms of financing and management expertise that they can attract will spur efficiencies and innovations in the design and delivery of legal services (and «products»).
This does not, of course, provide complete access to justice, but it provides some access to justice, and additional arguments are also to be made that limited legal work has incidental effects that improve clients» overall legal capacity, extending the benefit received beyond the brief services provided.
Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.