It is therefore gratifying to see a number of programs spring up around the state and the country aimed at tackling the low -
income access to justice problem, but expandable enough to address the middle - income access to justice gap.
Not exact matches
The most comprehensive and viable options I still think are outlined in the recent «Middle
Income Access to Justice» book, which takes tackles the problem of middle class political apathy for access to justice initiatives he
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Justice» book, which takes tackles the
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justice initiatives head on.
U of T's
access to middle -
income justice initiative, a multi-pronged initiative aimed at addressing the growing
problem of middle -
income access to the civil
justice system in Canada.
Not only was this a manifestation of injustice in itself, but it also raised major political economy
problems in terms of the commitment of middle
income earners
to supporting a legal aid system of which they were never beneficiaries but only contributors as taxpayers, even while they faced similar denials of
access to justice themselves.
The national Action Committee on
Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal
problems ever make it
to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage
to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low
incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.
Historically, the
access to justice problem has been primarily seen from the low -
income perspective — low -
income individuals are consistently unable
to access the courts despite the host of legal
problems many of these individuals face.
An outspoken critic of the systemic bias against pro se litigants, she is a key member of the team that created LegalYou as the answer
to the staggering
access to justice problem that has plagued middle and lower
income families.