Sentences with phrase «longer access justice»

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For an agonizingly long time, such victims of torture and gross injustice had no access to justice.

The Tories have undermined access to justice for too long, something we have seen in family law as well.

E.D. Hirsch, Jr., has long been making the social justice case for giving disadvantaged children access to the knowledge and language that have long been assumed by the privileged and powerful.

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Frazier's practice spans photography, video and performance and focuses on the artist's deeply rooted and long held concerns exploring the legacies of racism, inequality, economic decline, access to healthcare and environmental justice.

Similarly, JUSTICE's 2015 Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term&JUSTICE's 2015 Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term&Justice in an Age of Austerity Report focused on the pre-issue stage and promoted the need to educate LiPs at an early stage, arguing «improved access to information and advice can offer important cost savings in the long term».

For a long time we saw the reports and heard conference speeches from one chief justice or another decrying the state of legal aid and access to justice.

Public legal education and information (PLEI) has a long history in Canada, but recently has received greater emphasis as a key component in the reinvigorated debate over access to justice.

As long as justice has existed there have been those who have struggled to access it.»

That the provisions meant the costs of litigation were no longer «reasonably predictable», which would dissuade parties from pursuing challenges and compromise access to justice

While I personally advocate for sensible regulatory reform and the introduction of appropriate authority for and regulation of ABSs in the US, I am weary of any claim that asserts regulatory reform will miraculously fix long standing access to justice issues.

Or call it a «right to legal representation act», or an «access to justice act»: call it what the politicians will, so long as it does not pretend to give a «right to justice».

From Texas comes word of an innovative program to help meet the mounting legal needs of low - income victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Lend - A-Lawyer, organized by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation and supported by the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, which will underwrite a year - long fellowship position -LSB-...]

As long ago as the mid-90s, Lord Woolf observed in his report on Access To Justice that witness statements have become «an elaborate, costly branch of legal drafting».

Brown said Clarke «used the argument that CFAs would protect access to justice as legal aid is withdrawn for clinical negligence cases, but failed to explain that this access to justice will no longer be as widely available because of the reforms he is proposing to no win no fee agreements».

Generally lauded by judges and leaders of the profession, the long - term systemic value of pro bono legal service is a matter of limited but uneasy debate in the community of reformers, progressives and do - gooders dedicated to the concept of equal access to justice for everyone.

Fixed costs will impact access to justice & lead to long term deterioration of healthcare in the UK, says Nina Ali

In my specialized roles as a limited retainer lawyer and as a legal research professional, I have an insight into a problem that has long posed a challenge to the legal community: access to justice for those who can not afford to retain a lawyer to take full carriage of a file.

But I do think the province recognizes that and has made a long - term commitment to access to justice by providing us with additional resources.»

He encourages lawyers to renew our dedication to serving the public, embrace change, participate in access to justice initiatives, mentor young lawyers, and continue our long tradition of community service and involvement in political life.

So far in this discussion (after 63 posts) I haven't seen anybody refer to what the judges have to say about any of the array of various long - standing access to justice problems.

What is interesting and encouraging about Iacobucci's report however, is his suggestion that we will need a wider lens and a longer memory if we are to truly address access to justice issues in Canada's Aboriginal communities.

To the extent that it is correct to say (as some here have said) that access to justice problems reside primarily in litigation — or at least are highly amplified by the one percent of lawyers who are litigators — then offering up solutions to these problems would go a long way to undercutting Mr. Kowalski's «we need ABS stance.»

Mr. Grabel has long fought for the rights of his clients and strongly believes in the rights of all people accused of a criminal offense, he is proud to support the Access to Justice Fund, The Innocence Project and Proving Innocence, a Michigan based organization fighting to free the wrongly convicted.

Luckily, law provides a number of touchpoints where we can engage and support entrepreneurs to identify and solve problems that have long gone unnoticed — especially around access to justice.

It also proposes long term solutions for new lawyers, new models of CLE, and that a commission be established to explore new service delivery options and regulatory reform that would encourage competition, innovation, and increased access to justice while also protecting the public.

Because ABSs have not been in existence all that long and because for much of that time it has been difficult to get approval to operate them, there is today little empirical evidence regarding changes to access to justice.

The term «civil justice gap,» has long been employed to highlight the reality that the poorest and most vulnerable persons have tremendous difficulty accessing legal services.

Sebastian Ko, Regional Director and Senior Legal Counsel of integrated legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring about transformational change and solve long unresolved problems in the law, such as access to justice.

From Texas comes word of an innovative program to help meet the mounting legal needs of low - income victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Lend - A-Lawyer, organized by Texas Appleseed and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation and supported by the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, which will underwrite a year - long fellowship position to support the program.

Tribunal fees have long since been described as preventing access to justice — a fact clearly evidenced by the seismic reduction in claims since their introduction.

The Law Society, which published its own access to justice review today, has said that «only the poorest of the poor will continue to be eligible for legal aid» and that the proposals represent «a sharp break from the long - standing bipartisan consensus that effective access to justice is essential to underpin the rule of law ``.

Read more about West Coast LEAF's long - standing work on access to justice and the right to legal aid here.

And John's comment that «we lay awake at night worrying about our client's cases; we have a unique view as long as we pay attention» emphasizes the need for technology to improve the efficiency and increase access to justice.

As long as access to justice challenges are only understood within the justice system, the possible solutions will be limited to the scope of influence, resources and imagination of the justice system.

Harmonized forms that follow uniform standards would go a long way to addressing the access to justice crisis.

Cohen Milstein and Leopold Law have a long relationship of litigating complex cases that have a significant impact on the rights of citizens to obtain access to justice.

Access to justice is no longer centered on an effort to appoint legal assistance of counsel to fulfill pro bono needs.

Law is increasingly not getting the job done, let alone addressing the long - term crisis in access to justice and modern challenges such as automation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate change, and safety and fairness in global supply chains.»

As I sat in the auditorium full of law school administrators and legal service providers at my first Annual Law School Access to Justice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New York Access to Justice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New YorkJustice Conference, I anticipated a long day of theoretical discussions about diversifying the profession and getting law schools more involved in access to justice initiatives in New York access to justice initiatives in New Yorkjustice initiatives in New York State.

«The unavoidable consequence will be that quality will be driven out of the publicly - funded justice system — the ultimate losers will be the public who in the long term will be denied access to quality representation.»

The JDP was a week - long workshop for post-secondary students interested in law, design and access to justice held in August 2015.

When it is considering its short term budgetary targets the government must stop and properly consider the long term consequences and the damage which will be done to the public's access to justice.»

High sounding lawyerly self - descriptors such as this is are only possible for as long as discussions about access to justice are careful polemics devoid of the messy particulars in case after case after case.

The Barreau du Québec has added its voice to a growing chorus of legal groups calling for more public funding and radical reforms to help reduce what they say are ridiculously long court delays that are hindering access to and making a public mockery of the province's court system, particularly in regards to criminal justice.

As trials became longer and as a result more expensive, access to justice was being impeded as most people could not afford to descend into the arena of trial litigation.

Building the capability of the next generation of citizens to anticipate and manage legal problems is a long - term strategy for increasing access to justice.

Before long, it was clear that the rules of evidence play substantially different roles in access to justice depending on the sphere of the legal system (i.e. in a criminal court, in an administrative tribunal, in a setting of self - represented individuals, in mediation, etc.).

As David Udell has been urging, it is long past time for US access to justice advocates to engage with the UN on Goal 16 of its Development Goals, dealing with access to justice, and with its potential implications.