Sentences with phrase «more about the access to justice»

For my column this week at Above the Law, I write more about the Access to Justice Lab and its work.

I, along with many of my colleagues in the A2J course, have a genuine interest in learning more about access to justice and pursuing a legal career with an aim to fix some of the access problems.

Find out more about access to justice on Law Day at the Vancouver Public Library at 350 West Georgia St. Law Day events will be held from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm.

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However, another critique launched at the AMP has less to do with its process and more to do with it's digital nature: «what about those people who don't have access to a computer, how will they dispute a charge — this is an access to justice issue».

But the public can't enjoy the benefits of the Court's Web site unless they know how to use it, so the Justices are encouraging lawyers to show their clients how to access the site and learn more about the court process.

For months, representatives from the Access to Justice Commission and legal aid groups have been meeting with members of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and the Governor's staff to talk about two things: how legal aid can help Wisconsin residents resolve their legal problems more efficiently and how that assistance helps the state save money.

Rachel said that this should be more than just areas not in scope anymore, but also about broader legal principles of access to justice.

States are changing criminal justice procedures to grant inmates more access to DNA evidence, address questions about witness identifications, change the way evidence is handled and modernize other procedures, hoping the changes will result in better convictions and fewer challenges, The New York Times reports.

That strikes straight to the heart of the access to justice conundrum: everyone has lots of ideas about what the basic problems are and what could be done to fix them, but there appears to be more eagerness to discuss the issue than to deal with it.

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

[7] If we continue to build a broader and more comprehensive access to justice system, individuals and community groups will come to know about it and use it.

«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.»

If the public comes to perceive that unequal access to justice is more about class dissonance than straightforward affordability, then the cries for professional deregulation and system overhaul will finally tip the legislative scales.

The more litigants understand about the trial process, the closer we come to access to justice.

They have «Access to Justice» committees, and they express «concern» about the problem, but nothing has happened during all the decades during which this problem has been inflicting more damage in one day than have all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers in the whole history of Canada, coast to coast to coast.

If we're serious about access to justice, then our focus should be on reducing all of the inherent inefficiencies in the litigation process — not to mention societal inequities generally — and not on producing more lawyers who can't even afford their own services.

The Susskinds are optimistic about access to justice because they think machines will deliver practical legal expertise more affordably and accessibly than lawyers can.

In the United Kingdom, academics Hazel Genn and others have used research about justiciable problems to reorient how access to justice policy is developed, making it more focused the paths to justice available to users for resolving their problems.

There are five propositions that Canada's law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their «concern about the access to justice problem» are to... [more]

It was great to hear much more about ODR, the history, how it works, et cetera, et cetera, and then to see what the future may hold in terms of the access to justice possibilities.

I asked a colleague teaching a course focused on access to justice about who is in that course and learned that class is also more than 75 % women.

More substantively, the motion raises important questions about the practical availability of access to the civil justice system.

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

However, we must be careful not to think about access to justice as simply a question of how to provide more litigants with legal representation in the courts.

Tune in to hear conversations about technology improving the practice of law, providing greater access to justice, and making legal services more affordable.

At this year's event, more than 500 attorneys heard from various speakers, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Roderick Ireland and the presidents of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Boston Bar Association, about the critical role that civil legal aid plays in ensuring equal access to jJustice of the Supreme Judicial Court Roderick Ireland and the presidents of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Boston Bar Association, about the critical role that civil legal aid plays in ensuring equal access to justicejustice.

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.

With numbers like that, we realized it was possible to learn even more from the experiment and so this year we teamed up with the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (where JP Boyd is now executive director) to commission a multi-phase evaluation exploring not only what people think about the resource, but how this wikified approach to disseminating legal information actually impacts on outcomes and access to justice.

We need those lawyers and, given the appalling statistics about access to civil justice in the United States, we need them now more than ever.

But if more politicians were aware of how serious the problems of access to justice are, they might just have been doing more about them.

More about A2J at the ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives and links to State Access to Justice Commissions.

PBI talks to Perkins Coie's Leah Medway about her career, the firm's pro bono program, the access to justice culture in Seattle, the documentary «The Chance for a New Life — The Sara Kruzan Story,» and more.

[1]... More substantively, the motion raises important questions about the practical availability of access to the civil justice system.

And so it goes, inevitability vs. vulnerability, excitement vs. cynicism, sustainable justice vs. aspirational justice, with all sides more convinced than ever about what access to justice needs to look like.

At the end of your response, you make the point that ``... the law societies should be doing more to support junior lawyers entering independent practice, which is the last remaining step from law school to being able to do something about access to justice.»

From now on, access to justice is going to be less about lawyers and more about alternatives to lawyers.

He writes, speaks, and podcasts about legal innovation, the legal technology industry, access to justice, and more.

I've heard more than enough speeches (and I expect you have too) by judges, politicians, and other interested onlookers about «access to justice.»

As access - to - justice advocates turn more of their attention towards lawyer alternatives, the legal profession will start to face some difficult choices about its continued participation in the consumer legal market.

Based on these and other data points, I think we can draw at least this conclusion: from now on, access to justice is going to be less about lawyers and more about alternatives to lawyers.

In future I will try to be more precise about what I mean by «triage» and try to incorporate the broader potential of this tool in the dialogue about improving access to justice.

With over a decade of fairly fundamental regulatory challenges brought about by the Access to Justice Act 1999, s. 58 Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (Conditional Fee legislation) and more recently LASPO (Jackson and DBAs), not to mention the overhaul of the Solicitors Code of Conduct to its present guise of the Handbook in October 2011, one would be forgiven for thinking that the solicitors profession is already sufficiently regulated without yet more intricate legislation.

More incongruous is the video from Attorney General George Brandis, talking about his commitment to access to justice (despite great concerns about funding for Indigenous legal services), and to working with the Native Title sector (despite plans to introduce a bill to reverse the effect of a federal court decision regarding the Noongar people), with nary an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flag in sight nor mention of his support for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.