Sentences with phrase «legal system has»

The uncertainty of what the divorce legal system has in store for us is can be overwhelming.

As a founder of our local collaborative practice group and a matrimonial attorney since the early 1980's, I regard collaborative practice as the answer to my dreams of a better way for handling matrimonial cases, and also a tacit acknowledgement that our traditional legal system has left much to be desired in the way of accommodating the real world of emotions and personal needs of divorcing people.

A starting point for the recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law is a critical examination of the ways that the mainstream legal system has dealt with Aboriginal women's issues.

He claimed that the legal system has historic gender bias that deems mothers to be more compassionate and better at rearing children.

Unfortunately, the legal system hasn't advanced the way our social system has, preferring the old idea that children belong with one Parent even though Social Science show this to be harmful to children.

This book was written to help the low - and moderate - income women the legal system has abandoned by walking a hypothetical self - represented woman step - by - step through the divorce process.

But sometimes it seems as though our legal system has n....

The ultimate sanction is a change of custody, but there are many others we could suggest the legal system has traditionally used fines and loss of liberty as punishments for failure to comply with court orders.

But sometimes it seems as though our legal system has not caught up with the times.

Our legal system has enshrined very few of the rights contained in the two main international human rights treaties, on economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights.

This lawsuit raises new questions about a practice that has quickly become commonplace in the cryptocurrency community: teams dividing a project between a startup and a nonprofit foundation based in Switzerland, where the legal system has created a unique cryptocurrency haven.

A proposal to introduce real - time content monitoring drew controversy in late 2011, while its legal system has housed a number of cases against Internet firms like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter.

Glaspell also says while the legal system has dealt with many national class actions, the difficulty, as this case shows, is often how to implement them.

But with those buffers in place, the legal system has been able to proceed in majestic oblivion to the public's response to its behaviour AS WELL AS being able to effectively neutralize any initiatives taken by the politicians so elected.

The Anglo - Canadian legal system has long recognized the possibility of awards of costs in civil cases being made against counsel personally, though only for egregious misconduct of the case.

BVI is the home to the Eastern Caribbean Commercial Court and its legal system has full recourse into the Privy Council in London.

Given the authority and knowledge that the legal system has granted to lawyers, we all have a responsibility to think critically about how we can contribute to a more just, safe, and affirming world for everyone whom the criminal legal system fails.

For years the English legal system has been dominated by litigation.

... [T] he legal services that we provide, as lawyers, doesn't effectively solve the issues between the parties... [I] f we see that the public confidence is dropping in our legal system, based on the way that we are dealing with these issues, every single one of us in the legal system has a responsibility to make those changes happen...

The public audiences completely resonate with her findings and comments; many in the audiences of lawyers dismiss the results and insist «the public should be assured that the legal system has worked well for 150 years, and we must trust it to continue to take care of us all.»

The legal system has failed to provide fair and just treatment for our communities based historically on such factors as economic status, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual preference, race, religion, nationality, and language.

Additionally, this process can even resolve some disputes that the legal system has no formal method of handling.

The legal system has long operated on the basis that it is owned by lawyers and judges, rather than the public.

In a world where the legal system has been accused of trying to thwart the «freedom» and «flexibility» of the «gig economy», these two different answers to essentially the same question have caused further confusion and uncertainty.

The real disincentive to lawsuits in the Canadian legal system has always been cost awards.

With the demise of both the carding practices and the TAVIS program, the legal system has an opportunity to reflect on the practices of policing and its relationship with racialized communities.

Likewise, the American legal system has long contemplated automated vehicles.

The reason why our already burdened legal system has this requirement is to avoid having to hear every frivolous dispute that may arise.

My extensive knowledge of the Connecticut legal system has led my firm to some notable successes, and I have the honor of being named one of Connecticut's Super Lawyers.

Chinese legal system has no law to follow: blind China dissident after nephew beaten, jailed, Reuters

The legal system has priced itself far beyond accessibility.

Unfortunately, our legal system has become out of reach for many people, due to complexity and high cost.

As far back as the Levinson Report in 1970 (co-sponsored by The Florida Bar and the University of Florida), the legal community in Florida has been faced with documentation of the overwhelming unmet legal needs of the poor in Florida, and the adverse effect this lack of access to the legal system has not only on the poor, but on the entire legal system.

Our legal system has the highest liability costs as a percentage of GDP.

The Portuguese legal system has had an influence on other countries that have a strong history with Portugal including Brazil and Cape Verde.

CFRILA is dedicated to the proposition that «the legal system has, over time, been perverted from its original goals much to the detriment of American society.»

The adversarial legal system has largely eluded or ignored this objective, largely in part of its historic roots, as well as the cultural blinders that Sue references.

Attention all ye who think the legal system has run amok: It took six years, two appeals and who - knows - how - many lawyers to arrive at the legal conclusion that the word «hotel» is generic.

Well, it may have taken over half a decade, but Jose Padilla's long, strange, Kafka-esque journey through the legal system has finally come to some resolution, with today's jury verdict finding Padilla guilty of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.

Let's say someone wanted to force a US State to get into a legal battle to resolve an open issue that the legal system has been reluctant to resolve and for which existing laws were murky.

A BuzzFeed News investigation has shined new light on the extent to which a secretive international legal system has enabled global mining companies to muscle their way into Indonesia's last...

The UK legal system has clearly stated that the cru team deliberatley broke the law wrt FOI avoidance.

The American legal system has long recognized that people who make and sell products knowing that they will cause harm should be held responsible for those injuries.

Thankfully our legal system has moved past the Dark Ages.

However, this idea rests on a definition of «public money» that the legal system has found unrecognizable.

By comparison, the state legal system has a very poor geographical coverage, and is beyond access for large sections of the population.

After all, he is convinced that Lara is incapable of having committed such a heinous act, even if the legal system has concluded otherwise, and far beyond a reasonable doubt.

Shanifa Bennett, 21, a survivor of sex trafficking who was also featured by The Post, said the proposed legislation «sends a signal that our legal system has our back.»

This is not, of course, the first time the notion of integrating Sharia law into our legal system has been suggested; readers will recall that no less a person than the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said that it was «unavoidable».

As The Sunday Telegraph said at the time of the Law Society's initiative: «Britain's legal system has its roots in Judaeo - Christian morality.