Sentences with phrase «meaningful access to justice»

These policies or practices were not designed to reduce the environmental impact of hearings, but were designed to ensure meaningful access to justice.

This has resulted in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people being denied meaningful access to justice.

The real question there is whether pulling the lawyers from the equation will foster meaningful access to justice... can you limit access to advocacy and yet obtain greater access to justice?

It is the experience of providing meaningful access to justice for the most vulnerable which fills my heart with hope and provides me with the motivation I need at those times when I find the day - to - day practice of family law disheartening.

If we want meaningful access to justice in Canada (and I am assuming we do), addressing the gaps must begin with education and information about substantive law and legal processes.

We envision a society where poverty or race is not an impediment to justice, work to expand meaningful access to justice systems and work to achieve justice within the framework of the law.

CJCs acknowledge that communities and their residents are key players in advancing meaningful access to justice outcomes.

In the wider scope, the Law Society and the Bar have established positions to ensure meaningful access to justice which have been voiced may times to the MoJ in the LASPO and subsequent debates.

C. Meaningful access to justice and information about the law, legal issues, and the civil and criminal justice systems

Meaningful access to justice requires more than just providing women and children with access to any lawyer, or any judge.

Their efforts to serve the public by providing an accessible, fair, efficient and innovative forum for justice also include several notable initiatives with direct public impact: In addition to hosting the second - ever Twitter Town Hall, the Court is also taking greater efforts to improve meaningful access to justice for self - represented litigants (SRLs), and has recently released Guidelines for Using a Support Person in Provincial Court.

However, the words of support for creativity in achieving meaningful access to justice should provide some comfort for tribunals and adjudicators looking to design more efficient processes that respect procedural fairness principles.

The problem, they say, is that the courts are failing to use technology to open up the justice system and provide meaningful access to justice to the extent possible in the internet age:

Judge Mendelson heads the newly expanded Office for Justice Initiatives (OJI), which is tasked with ensuring meaningful access to justice for all New Yorkers in civil, criminal and family courts, regardless of income, background, or special needs.

Each year, the Legal Foundation of Washington Board of Trustees presents the Charles A. Goldmark Distinguished Service Award to an outstanding individual or organization that has assisted in providing deep and meaningful access to the justice system.

While we all know that this increase is not enough to ensure meaningful access to justice for all Washingtonians, it is a much needed step in the right direction.

The introduction of a residence test would mean that anyone who has recently moved to UK and was treated unlawfully would have no meaningful access to justice unless they were wealthy enough to pay for lawyers.

He is also encouraged by evidence that courts are deepening their commitment to access to justice, such as last year's adoption by the Conference of Chief Justices of Resolution 5: Reaffirming the Commitment to Meaningful Access to Justice for All.

MLSA continually develops innovative programming to attempt meeting the need, but because of lack of resources and staff, at the end of the day many low - income people with meritorious legal claims have no meaningful access to justice.

Indeed, the denial of meaningful access to justice to a significant segment of our society — those who can not afford attorneys — is a failure of our profession and of our system of democracy.

In any particular situation access to lawyers may be key to meaningful access to justice and the courts.

(3) Did the adjournment of the trial cause serious prejudice to the appellants, effectively denying them meaningful access to justice?

... the digital revolution and the modern social and economic forces it has unleashed are creating new modes of delivery of traditional legal services, creating new demands and expectations for meaningful access to justice, and eroding the fundamental assumptions upon which the legal profession of the past was built.

-LSB-...] the attitude of the organized bar toward self - help assistance in courts is crucial to achieving meaningful access to justice — and -LSB-...]

Meaningful access to justice is required to provide assistance to individual women and to continue to develop family law legal principles which reflect women's legal rights to substantive equality.