The LRF understands that it is not enough to provide the indigent with legal assistance and legal education if the structures within the justice system do
not facilitate access to justice for the general population.
Not exact matches
But
to use the digital divide as an argument
to stifle the implementation of ODR solutions
to alleviate court dockets and
facilitate access to justice is
not only unwarranted, it's undemocratic since 87 % of Canadians do have
access to computers.
In June 2017, the ABS Working Group presented an interim report
to Convocation outlining a proposal
to enable lawyers and paralegals
to deliver legal services through civil society organizations, such as charities,
not for profit organizations and trade unions,
to clients of such organizations in order
to facilitate access to justice.
Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles,
not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how
to reformulate the future of legal services
to improve
access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty
to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.
Some of the above examples of
access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that
facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes
to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do
not need
to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.
Not only would such a model help address concerns about post-graduate articling positions and work experiences, but it would also help
facilitate the
access to justice and technology focuses of the proposed law school.
LSUC has an outmoded system of management that is
not under sufficient public or political pressure
to make perform its duties under s. 4.2 of the Law Society Act, specifically as
to: (1) advancing the cause of
justice and the rule of law; (2)
facilitating access to justice; (3) protecting the public interest; and, (4) acting in a timely, open and efficient manner.
«No matter where it's been implemented ---- whether it's Australia or the United Kingdom — ABS has
not resulted in greater
access to justice, lower costs for consumers, nor has it
facilitated technological advancements and innovation in the profession.
From this vantage point, we begin
to recognize that
facilitating access to justice is
not about making things better or easier for other people.
Although there is little case - law, it is suggested that an Isle of Man court would take the view that litigation funding
facilitates access to justice and is
not champertous.
I must say I hadn't appreciated the degree
to which,
facilitated by the ease of
access to data on the internet, the
justices do this supplementary fact finding on their own.
The calls
to action are instead geared toward developing
justice system innovations and applying direct and indirect political pressure on governments
to better
facilitate if
not provide equal
access to justice by 2030.
Beautifully simple in its structure and application, pro bono provides the most nimble and direct means for lawyers
to facilitate access to justice by affirming it and living it, and
not simply by talking about it.
Proportionally equitable representation is
not simply just from a governance perspective, it is critical in allowing the Law Society
to act impartially as it drives the provision of legal services
to the most accessible, appropriate level of the professions it regulates — as its duty - bound obligation
to facilitate access to justice requires of it.