Sentences with phrase «of justiciable problems»

The Australian study is also important because it reminds us of a similar study done here for the federal Department of Justice and released in 2009: The Legal Problems of Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians, by A. Currie.

The following chart from The Legal Problems of Everyday Life shows both the nature of justiciable problems and the those that cause problems for the public

This report helps us explore the nature of justiciable problems experienced in Canada.

What can be taken from all of this is that a very low proportion of justiciable problems are addressed with legal assistance.

The Legal Problems of Everyday Life (at p. 56) is the source of the information noted in an earlier column that legal assistance is sought for only 11.7 % of justiciable problems.

Only 3 % of justiciable problems were related to personal injury.

The report was entitled The Legal Problems of Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians.

Not exact matches

Unless I've forgotten how the English language works, the definition means that literally every single event which occurs in someone's life is a «justiciable» problem and is therefore the appropriate subject of the attention of the legal profession and the courts.

«Justiciable problems are problems of everyday life, often linked to social exclusion, which may have legal aspects and potential legal solutions.»

For the 16.5 % who did not address their justiciable problem (and did not seek any assistance yet thought their problem important), approximately one - third thought that there was nothing that could be done, approximately 10 % were uncertain of their rights and approximately 10 % thought that taking action would take too much time.

Having taken a cursory look at the DOJ's study, I agree with Bob's criticism and in fact, given the generality of the questions put forward as to what constitutes a «justiciable» problem, I'm actually impressed (in a positive sense) that only 44.6 % of respondents report experiencing an issue in the three years prior to the study.

To quote from the 2013 UK Legal Services Research Centre «Civil Justice in England and Wales» report, the definition of «justiciable problem» that they use is:

The analysis of the use of non-legal assistance to address justiciable problems is interesting:

These problems are referred to as being «justiciable» to focus attention on problems experienced by individuals that raise legal issues, regardless of whether they recognize them as legal issues or take action to resolve them.

Moreover, there are very different rates of resolution as well as ways to resolve these justiciable problems, depending on the nature of the problem and its relationship to other justiciable problems.

Research indicates, however, that most justiciable problems never reach the courtroom (Andrew Pilliar, «Law and the Business of Justice: Access to Justice and the Profession / Business Divide» (2014) 11 Journal of Law & Equality 5 at 10).

I presume that Lee has in mind the 70 % who don't use lawyers in family law disputes, the 70 % without powers of attorney, the 60 % without wills, the 40 % who do nt seek legal advice when injured, the 1/3 who know that they have legal problems yet don't seek legal assistance and the 85 % who don't seek legal assistance for justiciable problems.