HiiL's Innovating Justice Accelerator ran
a justice innovation challenge in Africa on Small Medium Enterprises, together with the Ford Foundation.
Chris Bentley, executive director of Ryerson's LPP, and director Gina Alexandris say they are evaluating all aspects of the program over the summer, such as doing more work on client development and the access to
justice innovation challenge.
Not exact matches
Odunoluwa Longe is a Nigerian lawyer who was recently awarded SME Empowerment Innovation
Challenge for East and West Africa at the Innovating
Justice Awards which aims to turn «promising and disruptive ideas into effective
innovations».
So hard, in fact, that the HiiL, a première
justice innovation lab located in the Hague, has identified developing guidelines for inclusive participation in
justice innovation as a
challenge for regulatory bodies.
What we are however also learning is that it is not easy for a ministry of
justice to go from a winner of an
innovation challenge to a system change.
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 reform of legal education could bring benefits in the form of economic growth, access to
justice, and ongoing legal
innovation to meet the
challenges of the 21st century, as well as reducing the burden of debt on the next generation of legal professionals,» Hadfield says.
The big barriers to
innovation seem to be (in no particular order): lack of data about the needs and experiences of users of
justice systems; the natural monopoly of judges and lawyers; the
challenge of developing the smart public - private partnerships that
innovation needs; limited or no access to finance.
Freshly home from the inspiration of the 2015 conference of the International Institute of Legal Association Chief Executives (ILLACE) in Washington, D.C. I have a heightened appreciation for the promise of Innovating
Justice's annual challenge to direct entrepreneurial energy into developing innovations in the justice
Justice's annual
challenge to direct entrepreneurial energy into developing
innovations in the
justice justice sector.
Yet, without breaking out of old moulds, without trying something new from time to time, without accepting that trying and failing is a necessary step to growth, the legal profession and
justice system as a whole can not effectively move past the current
challenges with respect to access to
justice, homogeneity of the profession, technological
innovation and consumer demand for change.
A motion was adopted by the Dutch Parliament asking the ministry of
justice to issue an
innovation challenge on the topic of divorce.
«The reform of legal education could bring benefits in the form of economic growth, access to
justice, and ongoing legal
innovation to meet the
challenges of the 21st century, as well as reducing the burden of debt on the next generation of legal professionals.