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 head on.
Not exact matches
Jeremy M. Creelan, who
headed up a number of reform
initiatives for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has been named a visiting fellow of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government where he will focus on reform and social
justice issues.
Freddie Hurlston, who was previously
head of criminal
justice system
initiatives at the Legal Services Commission (the predecessor to the LAA), said many of the staff assessing the bids were from a temporary staff agency on around # 9.30 an hour and had no knowledge of legal aid or previous experience of public sector procurement.
In an
initiative the Law Society of Upper Canada's outgoing treasurer is touting as his legacy, the regulator brought some 100 members of the
justice sector under the same roof for the first time this week to put their
heads together on the access to
justice crisis.
I blogged about it here and have summed up my concerns in the following letter to the Department of
Justice lawyer who is
heading up this
initiative: