Sentences with phrase «justice system which»

The act will also create a more efficient and effective family justice system which improves the experiences of children and families who go to court.
Ministers affirmed their commitment to a responsive, fair, efficient and accessible justice system which includes access to legal aid and referenced the common statement of principles approved in October 2010.
This also allows for identification of gaps in the justice system which incubators can potentially fill.
Justice Wagner finds the objectives of effective and uniform parole administration, and the support of public confidence in the justice system which is supposed to result form it, pressing and substantial.
The Ghomeshi trial has exposed a reality of the criminal justice system which is the bane of every criminal defence lawyer's existence.
Lieutenant Colonel Delius helped the Afghans establish a military justice system which included training Afghan legal officers and establishing a military court.
Further, the agreement is intended to promote co-operation between the executive branch of the government and the judiciary and the efforts of both to develop a justice system which is both efficient and effective, while ensuring the dispensation of independent and impartial justice.
Taxpayers pay for the justice system which provides employment for judges and lawyers, but those same taxpayers can not afford lawyer services and must use the courts without lawyers.
Legal aid was conspicuous by its absence from the government's paper Transforming Our Justice System which was published in September last year.
The Commission is comprised of key stakeholders in the criminal justice system which was created to evaluate and make recommendations on reforms and improvements to the Colorado Criminal Justice system.
The Family Justice Review is an independent review of the family justice system which was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice.
«This is a criminal justice system which is not just creaking, it's about to croak.»
The cardinal used the death penalty in America to illustrate his argument that there were questions about the US justice system which needed re-examining.
The focus is on the criminal justice system which fails the 70 to 80 per cent of women who don't report abuse,» she told politics.co.uk.
The victim of a mugging or the witness to a robbery is forced to navigate their way through the crooked byways of a criminal justice system which can be intimating and off - putting.
So there is something distinctive about the youth justice system which shows we can reduce crime and imprisonment at the same time.

Not exact matches

Mr. Rosenstein, America depends on you to restore faith in our criminal justice system, which is going to be badly shattered after the administration's actions today.
The entire spectacle was captured on video, which led Dior to fire him and the French justice system to find him guilty of uttering «public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity.»
We've seen this play out in politics, in media and in the justice system, most emblematically in the harsh cross-examinations to which victims of sexual assault are subject.
Id say the justice system is harder on poor or lower socio - economic classes which happen to be more non caucasion.
However this kind of court would not be open to the public, which is a fundamental part of the justice system in many countries.
So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.
When I think about our justice system, which favors the rich, I wonder.
Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5
Brunner is right that there is a certain impersonality about a system of justice, a definiteness and a structured quality which is not dependent on attitudes of personal like or dislike.3 Yet justice within a family requires adaptation to individual need, and justice within an economic order requires some variation in income according to contribution as well as need.
«I don't think the statements from the United States has had any impact either on this case as this is all going through the Iranian justice system, which is based on the law and evidence.»
Buzzfeed's work lit a fire under the Chicago Justice System, which dropped all charges this morning.
After we see what the biblical foundations are, the primary matters to examine will be the Christian view of property, work and vocation, and some principles of economic justice by which a Christian may be guided amid current conflicting systems.
The churches of the world are a global communication system through which the voices of those rendered voiceless because they lack access to the media can be raised to question societal trends that may be antithetical to justice, freedom and human dignity.
This is certainly a step in the right direction of creating a balanced justice system — one in which big businesses can not capitalize on people's lapses in judgment.
I think the way to do consciousness - raising in the church about justice is to try to get people in touch with the way in which systems effect individual lives.
The conflict which he led broke out over a foreign baal, supported by royal authority and symbolizing the entire system of alien customs, selfish luxury, and iniquitous commercialism that threatened not alone Yahweh's worship but Yahweh's social justice.
Justice is not an abstract concept, but the perspective from which to judge the total system and structure of political and social relationship - the perspective of the poor and the weak.
The internet moves so much faster than the justice systemwhich only serves to destroy reputations.
A program with a narrow perspective — from any faith — may not do justice to the complexities of world affairs in which people of different faiths and belief systems interact.
«The question of inherent unfairness concerns not simply the structure of the system which may be capable of operating fairly, but whether there are mechanisms in place to accommodate the arguably higher risk of unfair decisions for those with mental health, learning or other difficulties which effectively deprive them of the ability effectively to participate in, at least, some of the decisions,» Lord Justice Leveson said.
The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is examining New York's controversial system of civil confinement for sex offenders, which allows convicted sex offenders to be kept in secure psychiatric hospitals indefinitely after their prison terms.
For thousands of people wrongly accused of fraud by the Home Office, this will be a staggering moment, in which they may lose all faith in the British justice system.
For some time, even in the face of turmoil and economic meltdown, it was possible to believe Brazil was taking a decisive step in its long walk towards a more legitimate and fair democratic system in which not even the most powerful authorities were immune to justice.
Speaking on the importance of the forensic centre, the Commissioner said the facility which would be driven by the Ministry of Justice with active support of the Governor, will focus on DNA analysis to support the justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.Justice with active support of the Governor, will focus on DNA analysis to support the justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.»
The statute of limitations, which has been around since the Romans, and first came to the Americas in 1657 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony serves many purposes in our criminal justice system.
At an appearance in Brooklyn this weekend, Sanders said: «We owe a debt of gratitude to the Black Lives Matter movement,» which he said had «raised the consciousness» of the racial disparity within in the criminal justice system.
Lord Justice Leveson opened the latest phase of his inquiry by making a statement in which he pointed out that nobody had said the present system of regulation is «adequate or sufficient».
«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.
Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system
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.
Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard is an eight part series which traces the history of a dispute among neighbors that spiraled out of control and came to consume members of the New Rochelle Police Department, the City Court of New Rochelle and the Westchester County District Attorney's office and raised serious doubts about the justice system in the City of New Rochelle.
MPs voted by 203 votes to seven on Monday night to appoint the MP for Leicester East to the powerful committee which oversees Britain's justice system.
The Republican leader of the state Senate said Wednesday that changes will be needed to an $ 80 million overhaul of the state's juvenile - justice system, which the Assembly had passed unanimously and which is a top priority of Gov. Scott Walker's.
But the measure, which would impact a number of county offices, must come with increased funding for expanded juvenile justice systems, she said.
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