Sentences with phrase «indigenous access to the legal system»

The legal implications of s. 35 and s. 25 remain filled with uncertainty, but their inclusion represents a continuing civilizing of the Canadian constitution and its recognition of indigenous rights, and an expansion of indigenous access to the legal system to assert and defend those rights.

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After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

Her desire to help improve access to justice led her to spend a summer working at a legal aid clinic in Iqaluit assisting indigenous clients as they navigated the justice system.

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 servlegal 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 servLegal 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.

And according to aboriginal legal scholar Hannah askew, for non-Indigenous learners, understanding Indigenous legal traditions will require not only finding a way to access the content of these traditions, but also learning how to interpret a completely different style of legal system − one that substitutes «a set of interlocking and overlapping processes» for rigid rules, and that requires that those processes be understood via the full range of senses: sound, touch, sight, taste and smell.

Recommendation 50, the lead recommendation in the section on «Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System,» calls upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal organizations, «to fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes for the development, use, and understanding of Indigenous laws and access to justice in accordance with the unique cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.»

Topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, using new technologies and good corporate citizenry.

Plenary and workshop topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, and good corporate citizenry.

There is, however, a long - standing, widespread acknowledgement across all sectors of the legal system that cultural factors and socio - economic disadvantage are barriers to accessing justice within the Australian legal system and that these are barriers that confront Indigenous people across all jurisdictions.