Sentences with phrase «increasing access to our court»

mentioned how Matterhorn and Court Innovations» Co-Founder J.J. Prescott are increasing access to the courts through providing an online alternative to appearing in - person at court.

In addition, itnrecommends an immediate increase legal aid funding, the establishment of videoconferencing facilities to increase access to the courts in rural areas, and investment in mental health programs that provide alternatives to the criminal justice system.

This will increase access to the courts for those living outside Harare and Bulawayo

We don't require parties to come in person, again we want to make sure we're flexible, increasing access to our court services.

Bonnie received the Faye Stender award from California Women Lawyers, the Opening Doors to Justice award from the Public Interest Clearinghouse, as well as the Award of Merit from the Legal Aid Association of California and the California Commission on Access to Justice for her work to increase access to the courts for low - income persons.

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We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

House legislation to reverse a federal court decision on state interest rate caps would increase access to credit, not expand predatory lending as critics have argued.

The Court referred to the purpose of access to environmental information as expressed in recital 2 of the Aarhus Regulation, which is to promote more effective public participation in the decision - making process, increase the accountability of decision - making and contribute to public awareness and support for the decisions taken.

In order to fully implement these reforms and to achieve the objective of increasing access to justice, it will be for the new government to revisit the Prisons and Courts Bill and to fully implement the proposed reforms.

While increasing free access is certainly a step in the right direction, Professor Mitchell H. Rubinstein of St. John's Law thinks we shouldn't settle for anything less than 100 percent free access to all court documents.

In addition, Matterhorn helps courts level the playing field — enabling them to engage citizens, increase efficiencies, speed up case closure and collection - with lower default rates, all while improving satisfaction and access to justice — regardless of the court's geographic location or resources.

But perhaps the most important finding of the user survey is the evidence that Matterhorn is significantly increasing citizen access to the courts.

It is also working to increase the use of video conferencing in efforts to reduce court delays, increase safety and improve access.

Courts are finding online dispute resolution attractive given the data showing how citizen access to justice increases and court costs decrease.

As somone who works with the public and self - reps trying to navigate our court system every day, I can say that increasing the number of claims that people can access through that simplified court process will definitely increase access to justice.

Allocations include: nearly $ 4.8 million in additional annual funding for legal aid, with a focus on indigenous and family law services; $ 3.8 million per year to fund expansion of Parents Legal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice services.

Posting would increase public access to the process of the Supreme Court of Canada, and make the research contained in the factums generally available.

Today, in a 6 - 1 ruling written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, the top court came down squarely in favour of increased access to justice.

It also explores Internet technology's potential for increasing access to legal information, predicted by Richard Susskind in 1996, as a means for selfhelp with settlement and support for court access.

The recommendation comes after a study by an expert group, including Dr Sue Prince, Associate Professor at the University of Exeter Law School, suggested online civil law courts would increase access to justice and streamline the court processes in England and Wales.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

A recent scholarly article covers outreach mechanisms to increase the use of access to justice technology at the 30th District Court in Highland Park, Michigan.

Your court worked with Matterhorn to launch your online dispute resolution (ODR) site because you sought to increase access to justice.

Using digital technology to increase the efficiency of courts to enable lawyers waiting to participate in trials to work remotely with free WiFi and access to sockets.

If it were not, the great volume of literature that has been written about this «access to justice» problem since 2007 would not have been published, and the disturbingly high and increasing percentages of unrepresented litigants whom judges are warning are clogging their courts, would not be happening.»

This case will also be watched by those in the copyright community in the educational system, since Access Copyright («AC») has recently increased the volume of its sabre rattling in the fallout from its great defeat on fair dealing in the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, and the resulting hit on its revenues with much more decline to follow.

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.

Although ATE insurance is designed to improve access to justice in principle, it may also increase the number of questionable lawsuits that may otherwise have been settled out of court or abandoned entirely.

«Not only would these reforms perhaps restrict access to counsel, but there are concerns about the capacity of sheriff courts to deal with the increase in cases.

During his term, Sandy worked tirelessly to bring awareness to the need for increased legislative funding for these programs and to explore ways the courts and the legal aid community could better work together to improve equal access to justice for all litigants.

It involves an ambitious overhaul of the way cases are supposed to work their way through the courts and it is intended to increase access to justice.

She adds that if local authorities consider compromises instead of issuing court proceedings as a way of avoiding increased costs, «vulnerable children will be put at risk and denied access to justice».

For most law students and recent graduates this third thing has fallen off the map at a time when everyone from the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court to the Bar Associations, law schools and LSUC are talking about increasing access to justice.

Since Alberta increased its small claims court limits in 2013, concerns about access to justice and about self - represented litigants have only increased.

Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands updates its rules governing the Virgin Islands IOLTA Program, both to establish the Supreme Court's oversight and to increase participation in order to further access justice in the Territory.

Court Innovations Director of Product Development, Tracy E. Davis speaks on panel discussing how legal technology is used to increase access to justice in the public and private sector and the pros and cons of using technology.

The explicit concern of the CCD is that, in increasing de jure access to human rights remedies in civil court actions, the decision in this case may have the consequence of sending a message that a civil action in court can fulfill the same role as an administrative action under the existing statutory schemes, and that de facto financial barriers to access do not matter.

The Divisional Court reinforces the importance of paralegals in making the «justice system more accessible» and describes arbitration in relation to the Small Claims Court as «another parallel process also designed to provide increased access to justice».

[60] In the opinion of the appellate court, the use of such a method recognizes the concerns raised by the commentators and the courts that dollars spent on increased access or shared custody do not necessarily lead to a reduction in expenditures for the recipient parent.

The newest project of the Society is the Supreme Court Docent Program, which will increase public access to the Court by providing tours and other informational services.

This option would increase flexibility for those in the position to choose between the administrative system and the court, but may undermine the statutory system and create serious access to justice issues.

Others still championed LSPs as important for meeting the access to justice gap, but argued against their regulation by state courts on the grounds either it is unnecessary (they are already regulated by consumer protection laws), that it would unnecessarily increase costs, or that regulation would only enable the state bars and courts to exercise their «protectionist instincts» (see this response, this response and this response).

These changes must be made by the courts themselves and are foundational to increasing access to justice.

Along with reduced legal aid, increased complexity further exacerbates the access to justice problem, which puts pressure on the court and bar associations to fix the problem.

In other news senior judges criticised dramatic increases in court fees, the Labour party Access to Justice Commission held its first meeting and Justice Alliance staged the «Voices for Justice» rally in London, in which Jeremy Corbyn described legal aid as a basic human right.

Re Estate of Ireni Traitses is a bold example of a trial judge putting the values articulated by the Supreme Court in Hryniak, namely increasing access to justice, into practice.

Judge Lippman then outlined several projects and proposals to increase the public's access to lawyers that should be a model for courts nationwide:

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.

April 28, 2016 — «A package approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is designed to encourage more pro bono work and increase access to justice.

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