Sentences with phrase «justice process»

This chapter provides a broad overview of issues that Indigenous women face in criminal justice processes.

Online dispute resolution is one thing but the delivery of the civil justice process over the internet is another.

Through this work, I hope that the students will be empowered to take action, to choose to participate, and that we can develop our own restorative justice process at my school.

Not among firms, however, but in major administration of justice processes.

They were then free to answer questions, educate, and explain the criminal justice process for an eager public and did so with dignity.

No matter what type of charges you face, our criminal defense attorneys will navigate you through the entire criminal justice process from start to finish.

If that's the case, we do need to think about how to make justice processes «easier» for self - represented litigants.

One thing I see as inevitable is the need to reform justice processes so that they are much more manageable and accessible for self - represented litigants.

On that theme the argument that having an accessible justice process is one of the pillars of civil society appears to have been forgotten altogether.

An adept administrative justice process will therefore facilitate settlement whenever and wherever the parties are ready to consider it.

Many elements of the criminal justice process fail to adequately reflect the personal and traumatic experience of sexual violence.

Before the restorative justice process became a tool in sentencing, offenders could and would avoid confronting the consequences of their behaviour.

This book is yet another reason why we need a radical innovation revolution around justice processes.

Whatever one's views of the restorative justice process there is a critical need for imaginative ideas to alleviate the chronic prison crisis.

Can a «one nation civil justice process» become a reality in a budget restricted world?

His current focus is on victim dissatisfaction with criminal justice processes, and the degree to which certain restorative justice practices might offer scope for improvement.

We just need to shift perspective and think of justice processes and procedures from the perspective of users and their justice needs rather than from the perspective of substantive and procedural rules and rights.

This could have been avoided if restorative justice processes were being implemented in the country.

The panel will explore what is needed to help both countries achieve greater social cohesion and lasting peace, and will conclude by considering whether lessons learned from Mali and Côte d`Ivoire have implications for transitional justice processes in other countries where ABA ROLI is working, such as Burundi, the Central African Republic, and Mauritania.

Her goal is to use her school nursing expertise and education in assisting with the national agenda and national policy to shift the juvenile justice process from a punitive reform to one that includes a focus on physical / behavioral health and family engagement.

I think one of the key points from the bits of Ab's research that I have read, and from my own work in law reform, is that there are lots of issues that can be fairly called «legal» and thus involving «justice» that will never come to the adversarial justice process in any foreseeable future, and some will never come at all, however cheap that process becomes.

Bachar describes the Laboratory as being a space for reflection and creation where justice processes are modeled and redesigned to better meet the needs of individuals.

One of the best ways to develop cultural literacy and help our students understand these goals is through social justice processes and projects, activities that develop a mindset of concern for our society's inequity in wealth, education, and privilege.

Moreover, lawsuit lending distorts the civil justice process by altering a plaintiff's decision making process.

d) Over-policing: A further concern about Indigenous women's contact with criminal justice processes relates to the potential over-policing of Indigenous women.

Turning from high politics to popular views, it's clear that Americans are concerned about these kinds of drone attacks - apparently unilateral, apparently violating the 350 - year - old norm of state sovereignty and conducted without a formal justice process.

It is a tension which is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain as the criminal justice process moves discernibly towards retribution.

Your [Daily Journal] article on the outcome of the much - publicized trial of Robert Blake casts the criminal justice process as simply a strategic game in which a verdict of acquittal my be seen as a «stinging setback» or a «major loss» for the prosecution.

Meanwhile, political and legal activists urged him to use his position to free those in military prisons since 2011, that is, to begin what might resemble a transitional justice process earnestly.

However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in sponsoring Justice Sector Reform (JSR), recognised the invaluable role of the Prisons in perfecting justice process hence the need to accommodate the NPS in JSR programme.

Ryan believes that every individual charged with a criminal offence deserves a thorough and vigorous defence and deserves to have a lawyer that is accessible to explain the criminal justice process at every step of the proceedings.

Our familiarity with prosecutorial techniques and knowledge of the federal criminal justice process ensure that you will receive a vigorous, well - planned defense.

This long running case has brought to the public attention issues relating to the criminal justice process which are far wider than those in the case itself — including the length of time that Mr Wallis was on bail,... Read more»

However, the civil justice process not only provides the soundings to commerce but is also the vehicle for the protection of vital human rights whether it be, for instance, in relation to housing, the right to life or the right not to be tortured.

You can be prosecuted for the crime in the U.S., both at the federal level and at the U.S. state level (or both), completely without regard to what happened in the criminal justice process elsewhere.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay's Victims Bill of Rights could overhaul role of victims, loved ones in plea bargains, justice process generally, The Globe and Mail

Family Law John - Paul Boyd Symposium on Children's Participation in Justice Processes Coming to Calgary

Who's responsible for this win: This case resulted from the hard work of many CAFL staff members, especially Ann Balmelli O'Connor, Attorney - in - Charge of CAFL Appeals Unit, who shepherded the case through the single justice process and wrote the brief and argued the case before the SJC, and Beth Ranz Sherwood and Gretchen Gillung - Fontanez, who advocated for Walt's father from the outset of the case in the Worcester Juvenile Court.

«The government was perfectly entitled to establish where the high - watermark of the law was in relation to controlling suspected terrorists, who you can't put through the normal justice processes.

But it has only recently begun to break through into mainstream public justice processes, with the passage of the Civil Resolution Tribunal Act, and with the passage of the ODR Regulation in the European Union.

Served as co-lead counsel for the property acquisition, permitting, environmental justice process, and drafting of all Community Benefits and Tax Agreements for a large independent energy company siting a new power plant.

The Community Justice and Policing Division offers services to victims that can assist you in dealing with the emotional and physical consequences of crime, and the associated justice processes.

It is always possible that even a Conservative government with a substantial majority and a new Lord Chancellor will want to complete a review of LASPO and possibly other aspects of the civil justice process before making further reforms.»

After a long period of development and testing the UK's HM Courts & Tribunals Service has rolled out an online divorce application platform, which should reduce stress for parties involved and also — and this is the key bit — reduce the cost of a key justice process.

Our Interviewers are available to interview a child and prepare a report that contains the child's verbatim views so that their views can be considered by adults making decisions about the child's best interests in a family justice process such as a mediation or court case.