Sentences with phrase «justice system reforms»

This announcement comes on the back of the implementation of the most significant family justice system reforms in a generation.

Our Justice Reform for BC report, which has been shared with BC's Attorney General, Solicitor General, and opposition critics, proposes justice system reforms categorized into 10 main areas of law and policy, including but not limited to policing, access to justice, family law, corrections, human rights, mental illness and addiction, poverty and income inequality, and government compliance with outstanding legal protections.

The report, which has been shared with Attorney General David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, as well as the opposition critics, proposes overarching areas of proposed justice system reforms categorized into 10 main areas of law and policy, including but not limited to: policing, access to justice, family law, corrections, human rights, mental illness and addiction, poverty and income inequality, and government compliance with outstanding legal protections.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

I'm researching the criminal justice system reform...

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to justice.

This piece falls short of that standard, and there is so much at stake in justice system reform that I hope a higher standard will apply.

«However, investors continue to lack trust in the Albanian judiciary, hence I think that the successful completion of justice system reform that is currently under way, will be an enormous step towards improvement of the business climate and that obviously goes hand to hand with addressing other issues raised by investors such as transparency of public procurement and PPP processes, frequency of changes to legislation etc.».

Michel - Adrien points out the Civil justice system reform underway in Ontario, and reading it I realize I've been a bit remiss in not reporting earlier on the success of the Into the Future Conference, organized by my workplace, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice in partnership with the Canadian Bar Association, the Association of Canadian Court Administrators, and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

The summit culminated in a compilation, by the participants, of ideas and concrete strategies for legal and justice system reform.

This was one of the major concerns about justice system reform over that past few decades — reports with tons of wonderful ideas and recommendations for what other people should do but little in the way of actual action on the ground.

Excerpts: pages 134, 137 - 38 (selected by the author, who has a companion website: Administrative Justice System Reform)

He is a strong advocate of criminal justice system reform and speaks publicly about his wrongful conviction and imprisonment.

Topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, using new technologies and good corporate citizenry.

Justice system reform efforts definitely require an affinity for asking generative, open questions requiring deep thought.

Plenary and workshop topics will include: justice system reform, supporting self - represented litigants, serving Indigenous communities, unbundled legal services, reduced rate legal services, paralegal pro bono services, the politics of access to justice, and good corporate citizenry.

Not exact matches

We must reform our criminal justice system because everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law.

That means end - to - end reform in our criminal justice system, not half measures, but a full commitment with real follow - through.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

Like his father, Sen. Paul has aspirations to reform the criminal justice system and legalize medical marijuana usage.

Canadians were told that reforming the justice system was a priority for Jody Wilson - Raybould and the Trudeau government.

Passage of implementing legislation for the Constitution Reform to Mexico's labour justice system has been delayed beyond the February 24 deadline as political parties jockey for advantage in the midst of an election campaign and NAFTA negotiations.

The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.

Christians can disagree about the use of drugs like marijuana and their legal status, but we should be united in our agreement that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed.

For true reform, we must rethink the approach to the justice system.

What would it look like if we took the same approach to reform of our justice system for those who have broken the law?

For example, one of the great problems of the criminal - justice system is that not enough reform - minded people enter the field.

As we've written about before, more and more advocates are calling for measures to decriminalize marijuana and reform the criminal justice system, as advocates say that not only are the current laws unfair, but they are also expensive and ineffective at stopping crime.

The scandal there could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with church abuse and challenging the church's claims that that reforms adopted in the wake of the Boston scandal have largely rooted out abuse.

Cuomo has spoken in recent days both to Lynch as well as activists including Russell Simmons and Jay Z regarding potential reforms to the state's criminal justice system following the Garner case.

The governor reiterated that he's planning to introduce a «comprehensive package» of criminal justice reforms that «will restore and improve confidence» in the criminal justice system.

These included cracking down on corruption and reforming the justice system to bring it further into line with the European norms.

In Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity, the new New Right skate around the world looking for examples of approaches that will help Britain bring growth to the sluggish economy, reform the education system, boost social mobility and social justice and abolish the slide into mediocrity.

We now have, I hope, an opportunity for a grown up debate on how to make our youth justice system work, for the young people within it and the communities it protects — by examining the root causes of youth offending, what preventative action can be taken, how to most appropriately punish and reform offenders and rehabilitate them back into our society.

The Internet can not be seen as an appropriate substitute or adjunct to a reformed justice system, particularly as violence can often erupt when citizens take a case into their own hands.

But at the same time, have a youth justice system that effectively punishes and reforms those who do commit offenc es.

The Democratic - led Assembly over the next two days will take up a package of a dozen bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system in the state.

«Criminal justice reform to end mass incarceration, and bringing our voting system into the 21st century.

In accepting this responsibility on behalf of his colleagues, Speaker Heastie has stepped forward at an incredibly important time for New York as a whole, and I look forward to working with him to enact an aggressive agenda that ensures economic opportunity for all, improves and reforms our education system, ensures justice in perception and in reality, and restores trust in our government.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

Governor Cuomo is proposing significant reform of the State's juvenile justice system and greater use of preventive services to generate better outcomes for children and family as well as significant savings.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Since he took over as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has been pushing ahead more productively with cuts to legal aid, reform of the courts system and a new, more accountable prison regime.

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the need for reforms to the criminal justice system to ensure fairness, improve community / police relations and to protect the safety of law enforcement officers, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, 19th Floor, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

The number of things done by government could be one measure (such as the number of tax returns or passport applications processed, or the number of prisoners in the criminal justice system) but how should we measure how well those functions are carried out, and how should we separate the effects of government reforms from those of technological and societal changes?

As a member of the Legal Aid Society's junior board of directors and recent recipient of their Outstanding Advocacy in Defense of the Accused award, Zellnor cares deeply for the reform of our criminal justice system.

De Blasio countered by saying that Albany can help speed things up by enacting its own criminal justice reforms and removing its own parolees from the city's system.

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.