Sentences with phrase «justice problems who»

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President Donald Trump has nominated a former corporate lawyer — who previously said that AT&T's bid for Time Warner doesn't pose a «major antitrust problem» — as the U.S. Justice Department's next competition chief.

In a 1994 Angus Reid poll, for example, one - in - five Canadians who thought crime was on the rise in their communities (19 %) said — unprompted — that justice system leniency was part of the problem.

Allan Flynn, who runs the «Comex, We Have a Problem» blog, this week posted a fascinating review of the traders who are the major targets of the recent investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission of «spoofing» in the monetary metals futures markets.

The conference invited leaders in the Buddhist movement for social justice in Southeast Asia who are now dealing with problems that have long since surfaced elsewhere.

So the natural philosopher who aims for comprehensive explanations that do justice both to science and to ordinary experience is obliged to wrestle with the problem of the «goodness,» or otherwise, of predominant mythologies, especially those that underpin the scientistic ideology.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

One process thinker, virtually alone, who does deal extensively with the problems of equality and justice, is Kenneth Cauthen.

«They're a problem for all Americans who care about justice.»

«This sums up the skewed priorities of a justice secretary who has no solutions to the problems in our prisons,» he said.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

Clegg, who is a committed europhile, warned that pulling out of EU justice measures would hit anti-terrorism and crime efforts, despite expectations that Cameron will highlight problems with the European arrest warrant.

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

The problem is that the criminal justice system has been too soft on prisoners who just come out of jail and reoffend.

«If we could design a small molecule inhibitor that would look like heme - iron but would actually clog up a key metabolic pathway in bacteria, we may be able to get around the problem of antibiotic resistance,» suggests Dr. Mason, who adds that he and Dr. Justice plan to use the new five - year NIH grant to further studies of just such an inhibitor.

Bermudez, who speaks in America and abroad about the power of persistence and the need for justice reform, calls his story «a cautionary tale against this happening to others as a public safety problem that allows true perpetrators to escape punishment while families are ripped apart.»

Milton Justice, who won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1987, called the changes «insulting to black people,» saying Selma's only problem was that not enough voters liked it.

Such schools serve very high - risk student populations, including those in the juvenile justice system, with substance abuse problems, who are persistently truant, and more.

I realize that these things should be taken seriously, and anyone who does it should be disciplined, but at the same time, at least in the first case, if the woman still has a problem with it after 2-1/2 years to take to twitter to try and get justice, then there are other means by which she can pursue remedy.

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

These features include: (a) it is a problem caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «To have any hope of tackling our climate crisis, we need to see urgent and ambitious action, led by those who caused the problem.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

On top of that and lot's of other problems here, three of the Supreme Court justices think it's A-OK not to positively identify people who want to vote in our elections.

Questions That Should Be Asked Of Politicians And Others Who Oppose National Action On Climate Change On The Basis Of Scientific Uncertainty Or Unacceptable Cost To The Economy Given That Climate Change Is A Profound Global Justice And Ethical Problem

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

As New York Times reporter Luanne White reports in this article, In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice (11/21/06), in the aftermath of Katrina, «as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.»

In support of its position, the guide notes six of the seven California justices who adopted the all - citations - in - footnotes style several years ago «have now abandoned it because of the «bobblehead doll» syndrome and quotability problems noted above.»

The fact that the majority of Canadians can not afford to seek justice through the current system is a problem which far outstrips in magnitude concerns about maximizing procedural and due process protections for those litigants who are presently able to access the system.

That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions, debt collections, foreclosures — even lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly, with both sides of a dispute having access to an attorney.

«One of the reasons I started this campaign was because I kept getting calls from litigants looking for services at a lower price, so I'm excited that we're finally going to get access to justice for people with family law problems who can't afford a lawyer,» says Yarmus, who runs Toronto - based Civil Litigations Paralegal Services.

«For Muslim women who already experience racism and other forms of discrimination, a signal from the court that the Canadian justice system is an unwelcome place to them will further exacerbate that problem.»

Access to justice is an incredibly difficult problem not only for those who are indigent or without resources but increasingly for those in the middle class who can't afford legal services in order to meet their basic needs or find them difficult to access.

To solve a complex social problem like access to justice, we need to learn to work closely with others who may not share our views, our experiences and maybe even the same perception of the access to justice problem (and solution) that we do.

The chief justice wrote a brief foreword to the book and noted that those of us who have no problem reading may not fully comprehend the frustration of those who have difficulty reading when facing «the document - laden justice system»:

The program brought together a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students who received a short primer on problems in the justice system.

Focusing on common legal problems faced by people with low or moderate incomes, Steps to Justice also aims to assist first - contact community workers, who are often the trusted intermediaries for many experiencing legal problems.

They are the lawyers who are blazing trails towards collaborative law, restorative justice and other alternative ways to resolve conflicts and solve problems.

Many of the people, who find themselves in the criminal justice system, do in fact have an addiction problem.

Who stands to lose nothing to this access to justice problem of unaffordable legal services?

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

In my specialized roles as a limited retainer lawyer and as a legal research professional, I have an insight into a problem that has long posed a challenge to the legal community: access to justice for those who can not afford to retain a lawyer to take full carriage of a file.

Lack of A2J Threatens Us All Reason number 5: we frankly have an embarrassing access to justice problem and while we can continue to ignore it, we have some responsibility to our profession and to the public, who has extended to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections.

As a lawyer who has worked in small claims courts, my clients need for affordable access to justice is a problem I have struggled with.

While rooted in the very best of intentions, this standard approach to justice reform fails to consider the opinions and suggestions of the only people who can speak fully to the severity of the access to justice crisis — the people who sought to resolve their legal problems through the justice system and who failed somewhere along the way.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal problems ever make it to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.

Let us hope that more and more past supporters will have the courage of epiphany and (1) give up trying to deliver ownership of our profession to those who do not and can not share our ethos, and (2) work toward improving access to justice by tackling the real problems.

The problem with access to justice is a function of the existing regulatory framework, which ABS doesn't change — namely that legal services must be provided by lawyers who, in order to become lawyers, must be highly skilled people (in order to jump through the hoops to become lawyers), and who typically have high reservation wages (i.e., they don't need to be lawyers, they could get good jobs in other fields).

To the extent that it is correct to say (as some here have said) that access to justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.»

Native Youth at Risk Courtlink A program designed to address the justice - related issues of aboriginal youth who are at risk and who exhibit low self - esteem and behavioural problems.