Sentences with phrase «justice challenges»

The program may serve as a model for other rural areas, which face serious access - to - justice challenges as older lawyers retire.

One of the most pressing access to justice challenges facing low and middle - income countries is being able to offer basic legal services in a financially viable manner.

With new tools to address access to justice challenges comes a key turning point in the application of data to solve complex social problems.

If we are ever to address the access to justice challenge then we need to make some serious commitments.

CONAF is one of four organizations to receive seed funding through WJP's World Justice Challenge in Senegal in 2015.

The East Bay SPCA's Humane Education Department has a unique program for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about animal welfare, human rights, environmental protection, and social justice challenges in our community.

In 2008/2009 all MLSs were required by the settlement of U.S. v. NAR, the case brought by the Department of Justice challenging NAR's previous VOW policy, to repeal any locally adopted rules implementing the previous VOW or ILD (Internet Listing Display) policy, and to certify adoption of the agreed upon new NAR model VOW rules.

These are Justfix.nyc which came third in HiiL's Justice Accelerator Innovating Justice Challenge for 2017 and Project Callisto, a tool to combat sexual harassment on university campuses.

«Staten Island faces serious criminal justice challenges — some of the most serious in the entire city — including a crippling drug epidemic, skyrocketing domestic violence rates and increasing instances of violent and gun related - incidents,» DA Michael McMahon said in a statement.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is also currently running a social media campaign aimed at raising public understanding of accessible justice challenges as a component of a healthy democracy.

During her tenure, NAR has faced significant legal challenges, including an antitrust lawsuit in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging NAR's policy on the display of listings on the Internet.

The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) is catalyzing solutions to Ontario's access to justice challenges by facilitating collaboration with institutional, political and community stakeholders.

Read more about the World Justice Challenge at the bottom of the page.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

A new joint report from the Vera Institute of Justice and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge initiative says that women locked in local jails are now the fastest growing incarcerated population in the nation.

When the Supreme Court justice challenged every person to demonstrate the benefits of diversity in the classroom, Lee realized that he could do more.

SASANE is the recipient of a 2014 World Justice Challenge award for its SASANE Paralegal Training Program, which provided paralegal certification and a 6 - month paid practicum to trafficking survivors.

The Vanuatu Chief's Legal Education program was awarded a World Justice Challenge seed grant to create a culturally appropriate legal education program to equip chiefs with knowledge of state and customary laws to improve the delivery of justice.

Ryerson University's Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) launched the Ontario Access to Justice Challenge with support from the Ministry of the Attorney General.

While there are many dedicated individuals and organizations working towards solutions to access to justice challenges in Ontario, there is also a recognized and critical need to increase efficiency, coordination and innovation.

The Justice Department can't «tackle all criminal justice challenges» and must use its resources in a smart and targeted way, said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia who was nominated by President Barack Obama.

The Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters launched the #justiceforall campaign designed to raise public understanding of accessible justice challenges as a component of a healthy democracy.

The Buterman decisions demonstrate some of the access to justice challenges faced by the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the parties when the settlement agreement is at issue.

The World Justice Challenge is an initiative of the World Justice Project (WJP), an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the rule of law worldwide.

Eberts acknowledges the gravity of the access to justice challenge in this country but she believes that the burden of ensuring access «falls with particular harshness on what [she calls] the legal proletariat.»

The logic being that a better link with the public will inform more meaningful and innovative solutions to access to justice challenges.

Last month, Ryerson University's Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) and Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General hosted The Final Pitch of the Ontario Access to Justice Challenge.

Foresight methods are one way of getting to understand today's justice challenges.

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

The cost - effectiveness of cloud technology (aka «virtual law office» or VLO) that enables lawyers to deliver online legal services has been touted as one of best methods to address access to justice challenges, increasing as a result of a prolonged economic downturn.

• On March 31, 2014, we announced the winners of our 2014 World Justice Challenge, a seed grant competition designed to strengthen the rule of law worldwide through practical, on - the - ground programs.

Last June, I reported on the plan by BYU Law School to launch LawX, a legal design lab in which second - and third - year law students would take on the ambitious goal of solving one access - to - justice challenge in a semester.

It was recently announced, for example, that the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Legal Innovation Zone at Ryerson University will partner to launch the Ontario Access to Justice Challenge (A2J) which will «foster the growth and success of startups that are developing products, technologies, processes, and solutions that have a direct positive impact on access to justice in Ontario.»

I think the number of even higher because the 4 billion assumes that the justice systems in rich countries don't face an access to justice challenge.

The cost - effectiveness of cloud technology that enables lawyers to deliver online legal services is one of best methods to address access to justice challenges.

Now, Ontario isn't necessarily representative of the rest of Canada — or of the United States or any other jurisdiction struggling with access to justice challenges and an underserved population.

The Guerreiras Project received a seed grant through WJP's World Justice Challenge to begin training 25 of Brazil's top women soccer players as «ambassadors» to address gender discrimination and accessibility for women in sports.

As long as access to justice challenges are only understood within the justice system, the possible solutions will be limited to the scope of influence, resources and imagination of the justice system.

For context, we'll do a deep dive into the current state of the legal profession, to understand the range and scope of service delivery challenges faced across the spectrum, from access to justice challenges to BigLaw struggles, and everything in between.

A partnership between the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto has set up an Ontario Access to Justice Challenge.

Participants worked in teams to develop a tech solution to one of three access to justice challenges: