Sentences with phrase «lack of access to justice»

Another generation of CBA executive leaders will pick up the torch and again rail against the horrible lack of access to justice in Canada.

In an era where the cost of legal services and lack of access to the justice system is a great concern, it may be untenable to consider limiting entrance to the profession.

This contribution is manifest in the likelihood that at least some newly - licensed lawyers who are members of historically disadvantaged and excluded groups may be more willing or able to provide legal services to everyday people who are members of those same groups, and others, who experience lack of access to justice.

Lack of access to justice represents a problem where the very legitimacy of the legal system as a way for all Canadians to resolve disputes is at stake.

The #whataboutalex website provides narratives of how the lack of access to justice frequently affects the lives of Canadians.

This finding will be entirely unsurprising to anyone with passing familiarity with the substantial body of work, in Canada and elsewhere, showing unmet legal needs and lack of access to justice and legal services.

Court users all over the world complain mainly about long delays, lack of access to justice and court corruption.

The phrase «access to justice» — or more accurately, reduced, diminished or lack of access to justice — was often quoted in press releases, consultation responses, and lobby group submissions, prior to LASPO coming into force.

As well, in recent years considerable popular and legal media attention has focused on the lack of access to justice and the high cost of legal representation, often making connections to concerns about the adequacy of available legal aid.

She pointed to the enormous public costs associated with a lack of access to justice and suggested more efforts be made to calculate those costs and use that information as a tool to convince governments to increase their investments in access to justice as a cost - avoidance strategy.

In announcing her departure from the profession, she said: «I am sick of the legal aid cuts, the lack of access to justice, the systemic delays for my clients, the deprivations of liberty that have become routine where nobody is outraged anymore.

As a result, Canadians suffer from a lack of access to justice to protect themselves when they try to participate in public matters and speak out or share information.

If we take the law society's argument in extremis, then fixed costs make the cure worse than the disease of a lack of access to justice.

The lack of access to justice is a real issue, but mediation is not part of the problem, it is part of the solution.

A lack of access to justice for such women has wide - ranging implications not only for the women themselves, but also for society as a whole and for public confidence in our justice system.»

It also felt that the Government had overlooked the importance of an effective system for society, and that lack of access to justice could encourage employers to act without fear of repercussions.

The lack of access to justice is often measured by quantifying the number of people representing themselves (pro se) in court.

At its heart, the ATJ Tech Fellows Program is a grassroots movement driven by law students and legal innovators who believe that it is of paramount importance to prepare future lawyers with the skills required to address the lack of access to justice in US.

As detailed in this report, the development of Brazil's class action laws in 1985 was partly a reaction to the lack of access to justice during the country's military dictatorship.

Many jurists, lawyers and politicians have bemoaned the lack of access to justice in Canada for the average citizen, as the costs of a full trial continue to rise.

The former was used to suggest that evidence rules should be understood as an evolution, while the latter illuminated the widespread phenomenon of a lack of access to justice, and how rules of evidence might impede access to justice.

BC's Indigenous peoples have disproportionately suffered from the lack of access to justice, and attempts to solve this problem without them have been persistently unsuccessful.

This opportunity provided me a framework to greater assess the systemic and social issues that account for the lack of access to justice in our nation, as well as understand how innovative solutions can better address these issues.

Across the board, there was concurrence that there is a crisis of legal affordability and that unbundled legal services are needed as one way to address a lack of access to justice and lack of access to legal services.

The Federal Circuit Court RAP is the first to be developed by an Australian court and was initiated by the court's Chief Judge John Pascoe AO CVO after he met with Aboriginal Elders in Dubbo in 2011 and learned that a lack of access to the justice system was common to many Aboriginal people.