Sentences with phrase «justice systems around»

The Committee was charged with advising and reporting to Council of the Federation, whose vision is — acting in the public interest by strengthening Canada's system of governance of an independent legal profession, reinforcing public confidence in it and making it a leading example for justice systems around the world.

The paper included eight recommendations for courts and justice systems around the world to leverage technology to better serve persons with disabilities.

While civil justice systems around the world differ from the U.S. model, we are seeing the globalization of class action litigation.

The awards honor individuals and organizations whose outstanding work has contributed to reforming civil justice systems around the globe.

You need to be building your justice system around the 80 % who aren't represented.

Our view is, isn't it our responsibility to build the justice system around the people, to whom it belongs, to go to where they are, to understand that people have a bundle of abilities and skills and challenges and limitations and to account for all of that, while bringing the justice system to them.

Not exact matches

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

I value the justice system but they should have just walked this guy around the corner to the side of the building and put a bullet in his head.

We feel a responsibility to make the most of our platforms and our privilege by demanding that those around us — those who come to our games to support us, those who voted for us, or those in our neighborhood who have high hopes that we will bring a higher level of thinking to our criminal justice system — are treated with respect, dignity, and fairness.

She is an educational consultant for school districts, the medical and business community, the criminal justice system and other educational associations around the world.

The juvenile justice system does not like the idea of kids skipping school and loitering around town, so there may be hope there.

«For all community advocates and educators concerned with food justice issues, Lunch Love Community is an insightful and creative documentary that will help you open up a rich dialogue around changing the food system for the better.»

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.

But cutting the YJB won't save much money — around # 100,000 over three years — and threatens, through undermining a joined - up youth justice system, to actually increase costs over the long term through higher criminality and the attendant costs to individuals and the state.

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

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.

The case, along with a police shooting in Missouri of teenager Michael Brown that led to no charges of a local police officer there, led to a series of protests in cities around the country and a debate over police tactics as well as calls to reform the criminal justice system.

Many of the issues around the criminal justice system that Clinton addressed and the solutions she provided are similar to proposals de Blasio has made around policing in New York City.

«The settlement provides an important example for other correctional systems around the country,» Manhattan federal court judge Laura Taylor Swain said, calling the settlement between the city, the U.S. Justice Department and a group of inmates «groundbreaking.»

A group of Republican and Democratic sheriffs from around the state on Friday urged state leaders to adopt a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system.

Earlier this month, following a grand jury's decision to not indict an officer in the death of Eric Garner and the murder of two NYPD officers, Senate Republicans announced that they would hold a series of hearings around the state weigh changes to the criminal justice system.

«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.

Her passion for justice has taken her around the country and the world where she has been invited to speak and present at various conference and gatherings in multiple states and countries, including: Senegal, Cuba, Mali and Tunisia as a UN Delegate for the world summit on informational systems.

I had a really relaxing weekend in Boston, hitting up the opening of Handle Bar's new Harvard Square studio, teaching a private class at Btone, doing a class there the next morning (that kicked my ass), and just laying around reading in between (I'm reading Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town and can't put it down).

I think she's exchanging it for giving him a way around the justice system... read more

Restorative justice has replaced zero - tolerance discipline policies in schools around the country following evidence that tough discipline in schools sends primarily poor and minority students into the hands of the justice system.

Webinar Recording: Effective Juvenile Justice Reforms in the Era of ESSA This webinar provided a brief overview of ESSA requirements for students in the juvenile justice system and highlighted models from around the country that are effectively implementing these maJustice Reforms in the Era of ESSA This webinar provided a brief overview of ESSA requirements for students in the juvenile justice system and highlighted models from around the country that are effectively implementing these majustice system and highlighted models from around the country that are effectively implementing these mandates.

He is a strong advocate for expanding educational opportunity, improving America's criminal justice system, and advancing freedom for LGBT individuals in the US and around the world.

This webinar provided a brief overview of ESSA requirements for serving students in the juvenile justice system and highlight models from around the country that are effectively implementing these mandates.

Regardless of that, he was a refreshing take for a fighter based around lawyer and the justice system.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Along with all the improvements and positive impact, technology may also have a negative impact on our society and our system of justice — and most of those revolve around the issue of privacy.

Blatchford may have fallen out of love with the Canadian justice system, but she sure loves to hang around opining in bitter screeds.

Lord Bach wrote for the Law Society Gazette about the need to build a cross-party consensus around access to justice to ensure that the justice system is once again affordable to all.

Second, a central theme in the current access to justice debate has been the idea that there should be a culture shift in Canada's justice system away from being organized around the provision of legal services towards a client - centred and problem - oriented model.

With many questions arising around the impending legislation, Legal Feeds asked lawyers how they think the legalization of marijuana will affect the justice system.

Sam Glover: John, I'm curious what role you think the right to counsel plays in the larger story of increasing access to justice, especially since so much of the work done around access to justice, or at least maybe a prominent part, or a part that's getting a lot of attention, seems to revolve around technological solutions and end arounds the justice system and new technology.

Before we consider details around implementation of ODR in our justice systems, we must confront bigger threshold questions.

Access to justice issues in the Canadian civil justice system are often framed around affordability, geography, and the quality of service provision.

Lord Bach wrote for the Law Society Gazette about the interim report and the need to build a cross-party consensus around access to justice to ensure that the justice system is once again affordable to all.

Freddie Hurlston, who was previously head of criminal justice system initiatives at the Legal Services Commission (the predecessor to the LAA), said many of the staff assessing the bids were from a temporary staff agency on around # 9.30 an hour and had no knowledge of legal aid or previous experience of public sector procurement.

While a Social Lab approach is new for the justice system, it has been used effectively around the world in other contexts including:

In spite of the lack of meaningful engagement by MAG, in summer 2011, CLHE provided MAG with a Report and Recommendations based on community and expert consultations conducted by CLHE around the province with people living with HIV, communities affected by HIV, legal, public health, criminal justice and scientific experts, health care providers, and advocates for women's rights in the context of sexual violence and the criminal justice system.

Or the fact that while personal injury cases are tanking around the country, harassing debt collections are skyrocketing and in fact, dominate the civil justice system today.

Plea bargaining is a hugely important part of the criminal justice system as it is estimated that around ninety to ninety - five percent of federal and state criminal cases are resolved through these types of agreements.

We tend to see a lot of future - gazing around the changing role of the law firm, but relatively little on the future of the court system itself — the fundamental common law institution that for hundreds of years has served as a bedrock of legal process and justice across the globe.

The legal AI and expert systems company's most recent outreach venture will see 20 UTS students develop AI applications to improve the delivery of social justice, which in this case centres around working with not - for - profits.

Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, in order to develop consensus and priorities around improving access to civil and family justice in Canada, while also encouraging cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders in the justice Justice of Canada, in order to develop consensus and priorities around improving access to civil and family justice in Canada, while also encouraging cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders in the justice justice in Canada, while also encouraging cooperation and collaboration between all stakeholders in the justice justice system.

What is unique about A2JBC is that it seeks to impact access to justice by creating a network of justice system stakeholders to align around strategies that are collaborative, user - centred, experimental and evidence - informed.

«The cornerstone of a democratic society is its justice system, so you can't wave the flag of freedom and turn around and not put any money into it,» said Woodburn, whose association represents 7,000 prosecutors.