Sentences with phrase «justice crisis»

The extent of the access to justice crisis in family law warrants immediate attention.

Climate change has caused a reproductive justice crisis, activists say, as its projected impacts lead some to question how they could have a baby with such an uncertain future.

He announced proudly, «This agreement builder shows the answer to the access justice crisis and the bankruptcy of the adversarial system».

I respect the different goals that law schools pursue, but I always ask myself what can we be doing to better address the access to justice crisis facing our country?

We have an access to justice crisis in family law.

Hurrell - Harring v. New York would have been the first time any state stood trial for its public defense failures, calling attention to a nationwide criminal justice crisis where poor, or indigent, defendants are too often effectively denied the right to counsel, creating a two - tiered system of justice.

During our meetings in D.C., we thanked our legislators for passing a budget that increased funding for LSC, and we encouraged them to take another step in solving our civil justice crisis by increase funding to $ 482 million, which is the inflation - adjust equivalent of the 2010 funding level.

All three resigned amid social justice crises or after championing programming with a political edge.

We have a civil justice crisis in Washington, but with help from the state, we can solve it.»

As the access to justice crisis worsens, law student pro bono is a win - win - win for the community, law students and the profession.

There is an educational justice crisis.

As many judges and now the Governor General have reminded us, we have an Access to Justice crisis which is a demand side problem.

The result of these two trends is a dwindling number of lawyers practicing in small communities and rural areas of Canada and a looming access to justice crisis if large numbers of lawyers decide to retire without replacements in place.

But documents only take the layman so far, and the access to justice crisis persists.

Benchers, legal ethicists, personal injury lawyers, and academics dominate the debate, with some arguing that if there's no prospect of benefit to the public, we shouldn't adopt ABS, versus others who argue that if the access to justice crisis continues, we shouldn't maintain the status quo.

Crowdfunding is not the only, nor necessarily a major solution to the access to justice crisis confronting public interest litigants in Canada.

In a sign of the unbundling movement's maturity, Mosten and Scully integrate discussion of client vulnerabilities, disadvantages and sources of mistrust of lawyers and new knowledge about the access to justice crisis among family law clients.

A recent article points out that ``... focusing on technological solutions to the access - to - justice crisis risks letting policy - makers and the legal community off the hook.»

The access to justice crisis caused by these significant delays has evidently motivated many of the changes in the New Code.

The access to justice crisis suggests that the legal guild has lagged in its societal representation.

I once memorably shared a stage at a public meeting organized by the Ottawa Writer's Festival on the Access to Justice crisis with the (then) Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Learn about the need for credible and plain language legal information caused by a growing access to justice crisis in Canada.

In October 2015 VICE Magazine published Mending Our Ways, an examination of solutions to America's criminal justice crisis.

Both resigned amid social justice crises and after championing programming with a political edge.

The access to justice crisis worsens and we are back looking at articling only three years later because we need bold solutions.

Both are technology companies adapted to legal service that are taking a bite out of the access to justice crisis by introducing vast numbers of otherwise disenfranchised customers into the market, And in doing so, these providers are prospering and redefining the public's perception of legal services.

Unfortunately, I find that Webb oversimplifies not only my argument in Redeeming a Prison Society, but also our criminal - justice crisis.

We are in an access to justice crisis in this country.

A program of lawyer supervision would have no impact on the access to justice crisis in family law, she wrote, adding that «only licensed and independent paralegals can offer meaningful competition to lawyers.»

Michael Trebilcock has for years argued for economical solutions to the access to justice crisis, noting that the ««only normative reference point that is defensible is a consumer welfare perspective.

This is caused by both changes in available technology and outside pressures, like changing client needs and the access to justice crisis.

We are wrapped up in our classist history perhaps — we want to be the well - heeled retainers of well - heeled clients, but if lawyers are going to help with the access to justice crisis we will have to be the middle - class (even lower middle - class) agents of middle - class clients.

We need to create an Ontario Legal Corps composed of lawyers and articling students to address the access to justice crisis in this province and we need to do it now.

He calls homelessness «a national disgrace» and believes it is critical to address the access - to - justice crisis.

Those that work in the legal trenches have known for years that another crisis exists — the access to justice crisis — now well documented by the Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project... [more]

Speakers have been selected for their expertise and to reflect the varied dimensions of the access to justice crisis.

And that will help resolve the national shame that is referred to as the «access to justice crisis.»

This has created a huge access to justice crisis (The «Fat Middle» and the «Lean Middle»).

Many organizations connected with the United Way know firsthand about the access to justice crisis.

It also provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the access to justice crisis and the plight of many vulnerable individuals who are without legal representation because of the significant reduction in the availability of legal aid.

Candidates working in smaller firms and in smaller cities — places where the access to justice crisis is most keenly felt — will not have the benefit of such subsidies.

(10) Seizing the opportunity to create meaningful legal jobs for graduates while helping to solve the access to justice crisis