Sentences with phrase «means access justice»

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Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

It has insisted on equality between women and men, and on justice for women regarding access to basic needs, the means of sustaining a livelihood and the decision - making processes that organize and regulate the common life.

We mean by justice an order of life which gives to each member of the community the fullest possible access to the sources of fulfilment.

The proposals, which look to increase the small claims limit for personal injury claims from # 1,000 to # 5,000 for all those involved in road traffic incidents, would mean that thousands of injured cyclists would be unable to recover their legal costs and therefore be denied access to justice.

«We should treat every person who works here with respect and dignity, and that means creating a climate where there is accountability, fairness, respect, and access to justice if sexual harassment takes place.

Still, we should not discount the significance of what Citizens United meant for independent expenditures, something that Justice John Paul Stevens argued comes close to direct contributions: «The difference between selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not kind and selling access is not qualitatively different from giving special preference to those who spent money on one's behalf.»

This success means that more asylum seekers and migrants will have access to justice.

The justice secretary says the potential accession of five more countries, including Turkey, will lead to an immigration «free - for - all» which means politicians could not guarantee «the same access» to health and housing as at present.

She is involved with and an advocate for community partnerships aimed at overcoming the barriers of access to mental health services as a means of addressing social justice issues that are prominent in our society.

An initial # 1m donation from Emma Watson, followed by early generous financial gifts from actors such as Tom Hiddleston, mean the fund will be able to make workplaces safer and fairer, they hope, and ensure that anyone subjected to harassment and abuse can access professional support to seek justice.

We believe global justice means equal rights for all including future generations, through access to resources, knowledge and decision making.

A 2005 report published by Graeme R. Newman and Megan M. McNally for the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that 14 % of people who knew how their information was compromised believed it was obtained through «other» means, which include theft by people who had access to their information.

ABS was first proposed as a means of enhancing access to justice.

Alan Shanoff has argued that real access to justice means reducing the roles that lawyers play in the courts.

Will it improve access to justice or does it still depend on who has the ways and means to effectively raise money?

As to what we mean by a «legal» problem, justice and access to justice evolve with innovation and new ways of thinking.

[129] By circumstantial fairness, I mean the fairness of the settlement to the parties and the class members in their particular circumstances, and by institutional fairness, I mean the fairness of the settlement from the perspective of a robust notion of access to justice that includes an outcome that objectively should satisfy the class members» entitlement to justice for their grievances.

For clients, access to justice means access to courts.

Thus, ensuring effective access to justice under the rule of law should not be done according to socialist principles but this means serious resource concerns.

In my view, that duty ought to be understood to at least require that the debate on ABSs and access to justice include consideration of possible means for ensuring that the new and improved services ABSs are expected to develop will benefit not just the middle class, but people living on low income as well.

The Washington LLLT program came about after our Supreme Court commissioned a Civil Legal Needs Study in 2003, which concluded that there was limited access to justice for those with little or no financial means.

«A Contingency Legal Aid Fund could provide a valuable method to fund litigation and facilitate access to justice for those who lack the means to pay for legal services.

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

That said, access to justice as access to courts afforded to people with little financial means shouldn't be contingent only on whether we have a mosaic - like legal community.

Private prosecutions are increasing and sometimes are regarded as a more effective means of accessing justice than a law suit brought in the civil courts.

This allows people of little means access to the civil justice system.

If some can not access justice because it is beyond their means, then the rule of law everywhere suffers.»

In the context of this case, the court recognised that the «potential impact on the livelihoods of solicitors and access to justice» meant that a «high degree of fairness was required».

A critic might say that a better way to understand what the right of reasonable access to civil justice means in modern British Columbia is to look to the laws and regulations passed by politicians and their delegates.

Law Society Report «Disqualified from justice: Legal aid means test»: On 20 March 2018, the Law Society published a report, which can be downloaded here, which finds that the civil legal aid means test is preventing families in poverty from accessing justice.

Justice Rowles explained that special education is the means by which «meaningful access» to educational services was achievable by students with learning disabilities.

Mr. Clark has on many occasions worked for reduced rates where the client's financial means and access to justice are real issues.

I hope to bring together that special group of lawyers in the Self - Rep Navigators: lawyers who understand the true purpose of law, who recognize that providing unbundled services is the means to the ultimate goal of access to justice.

Justice Bridge is described as a legal access center and law practice incubator that will help enable new lawyers to deliver high - quality, affordable legal services to clients of modest means.

I say «business» advisedly because it costs money to hire the lawyers necessary to know what the words might actually mean, and this sets up an «access to justice» problem with which we're all familiar and about which we seem to be floundering right now.

What does it mean for law and access to justice?

We know that increasingly our legal system is not providing effective access to justice to those without significant means.

According to defence counsel, such a summary procedure would facilitate access to justice by his client, who may otherwise be unable to afford to defend the action through to trial given her limited means.

Jamie Beagent of Leigh Day & Co, acting for PLP, says: «To undermine a key means by which the public can access the constitutional court of this country without introducing the balancing reforms recommended by Lord Justice Jackson is unjustifiable.»

That some individual class members may have the financial means and that class members do not confront any social barriers and would not be intimidated in taking on Thomson, does not mean that a class action is unnecessary to provide access to justice.

As one speaker in Madison observed, access to justice means more than just being free to participate in a proceeding.

So here, with some slightly more reasoned thoughts, I explore whether well - resourced BTCs — with a strong client focus and with the means and the motive, could, in fact, have a positive effect on access to justice.

For the most part, lawmakers have been welcoming of Litigation Finance as a means to enable parties access to the justice system.

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

[2] The Court then commissioned the Civil Legal Needs Study in 2003, which concluded that there was limited access to justice for those with little or no financial means.

I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your legal problem or your life problem with legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice problems are access to lawyer problems.

«I call on you to continue to do what you're doing; advocate for more funding, examine systems and create new systems, work together, be creative and think about the exorbitant fees we charge and what that means for people who need access to justice.»

Although we often refer to restructuring legal services and increasing funding for legal aid as means for enhancing access to justice, if we can not properly fund the existing system we put unnecessary pressures our justice system.

I mean, when you talk to judges about the access to justice crisis, lots of times you'll hear them say, «Oh, it's terrible.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.