Sentences with phrase «of access to legal»
The Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Program (FVPLS) has been introduced as a response to Indigenous women's lack of access to Legal Aid services.
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SmartOne aims to bring the disruptive capabilities of blockchain - based enterprise to the legal sector by creating a means of access to legal services for the crypto community.
No other event affords this kind of access to the legal information community.
(6) «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (SSRN, May 20, 2014); and,
Across the board, there was concurrence that there is a crisis of legal affordability and that unbundled legal services are needed as one way to address a lack of access to justice and lack of access to legal services.
While I can understand that occasionally one might visit a library while on vacation, I had never realized that one might choose not merely one's destination but also one's hotel by virtue of access to legal information.
Addressing the annual conference of the Institute of Barristers» Clerks (IBC), Browne praised clerks and practice managers for their constructive thinking, and invited them to consider direct access and block contracting as possible solutions to the issue of access to legal representation.
See: «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (SSRN, pdf.).
Trebilcock notes most studies show a U-shaped distribution of access to legal services.
However, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's report, Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada (Sept. 2012) defines the problem (paragraph 1) as being merely, «gaps in access to legal services.»
It may help the government cut spending, but there's a bigger social cost in the long run — the lack of access to legal advice could see an increase in drawn - out courtroom battles, increased acrimony between ex-spouses, and most worryingly, a detrimental impact on children.
wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.
I wonder if today's Lexis Nexis chauffeur (se) s, relative to their key competitors, see themselves at the cutting edges of access to legal expertise, tomorrow's technology, market intimacy, innovation and the other key measures that make for the likelihood of successful futures, necessary to sustain the premier position, for purposes of driving Mister Butterworth, travelling «to Infiniti and beyond» or will they be a dull old Lexus?
The current misdistribution of legal services and common lack of access to legal advice of any kind requires innovative and aggressive remediation
The problem to be solved is the lack of access to legal services.
Brill Nijhoff had initiated GOALI because it will clearly fill a gap in the area of access to legal information in developing countries.
She has consulted in areas of access to legal information, gender, & children rights, and land and environment rights in Kenya.
Students will have gained an understanding of new career roles that are emerging with courts, non-profits, and legal service agencies that involve the application of technology to the problem of access to the legal system.
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, low and middle income individuals and small businesses in the US will continue to suffer from lack of access to legal services.
Limited scope retainers are designed to provide valuable legal guidance at an affordable cost, making them a facilitator of access to legal services and access to justice.
Because lack of access to legal rights can have as much impact on an individual life as an ability to access health care, or education, or housing.
They include demographic shifts, like the aging of the profession and depopulation of rural lawyers; disruptions, like advances in technology and competition from non-legal entities; and a well - documented crisis of access to legal services and the justice system.
[vi] See: Ken Chasse, «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada».»
For example the Federation of Law Societies» (FLSC's) text, Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada of 2012, [v] defines the problem in its opening paragraph as being merely, «gaps in access to legal services.»
Consumers of legal information, including law firms, law school users and the general public are also considered, particularly with respect to the implications of legal information industry organization and operation for questions of access to legal information.
In addition though, more direct consideration of the issue of access to legal services should mean that the current licensing requirements are assessed for the extent to which they positively or negatively impact access to legal services.
The confession that the legal profession is unable to cope is well documented and made patent in the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's (the FLSC's) published text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (Sept. 2012).
Some would say that in term of access to legal information, the labour sector has somehow been left behind.
But law societies are expanding the field of professionals they authorize to give legal advice: see the Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.
As far back as the Levinson Report in 1970 (co-sponsored by The Florida Bar and the University of Florida), the legal community in Florida has been faced with documentation of the overwhelming unmet legal needs of the poor in Florida, and the adverse effect this lack of access to the legal system has not only on the poor, but on the entire legal system.
The lawyers slated inflexible Home Office rules and target - obsessed officials, and complained of a lack of access to legal help for detainees.
Our judiciary, right up to the Supreme Court of Canada has complained bitterly about the lack of access to legal assistance, specifically in the area of family law.
Lawyers giving evidence for the report highlighted the lack of access to legal help.
In fact, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (Sept. 2012; FLSC website), refers to the problem as being merely, «gaps in access to legal services....»
[5] Click on the highlighted word «inventory,» in the last line at this site, which states: «The Federation's Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services has produced an inventory of access to legal services initiatives of Canada» law societies.»
(4) Reports, dated May 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, recommending that legal services be provided by non-lawyer professionals who provide related services: Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group; and, Report of the Court Processes Simplification Working Group.
Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.
Important from the perspective of both access to legal services and access to articling positions, the new plan is expected to improve availability of composite articles, secondments, and shorter - duration hires for firms.
See also: (1) «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (pdf; posted on the SSRN on, May 21, 2014); and, (2) «Self - Represented Litigants» Tax Money Provides More Funding for Legal Aid Ontario,» (posted on Slaw, on July 31, 2015).
See: «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (pdf.).
For example, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's publication, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada,» (Sept. 2012) recommends lowering legal costs so as to preserve the existing system by means of using much less competent alternatives to using experienced lawyers — students, paralegals, unbundling of legal services, and the unpredictable capacity, availability, and timing of services provided pro bono.
Not exact matches
In adopting its Cannabis Equity Program, the City of Oakland made a clear commitment to ensure access and equity in legal cannabis for communities most negatively impacted by the drug war.
The order is likely to grant legal status to nearly half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., giving many access for the first time to legitimate work visas, or protection from deportation.
Eighty percent of those polled say it's more important to have access to the cheaper legal advice that A.I. might offer than to preserve the jobs of lawyers.
If the government wins, this case will be cited as legal precedent in hundreds of cases going forward, just as the DOJ cites the 1977 ruling that ordered New York Telephone to give the FBI access to a suspect's pen register (the file that contains the time and phone number of every call).
It's never been easier to call it quits thanks to a slew of simple online offerings that can be accessed from any mobile phone aiming to help couples navigate the divorce process and avoid hefty legal fees along the way.
Marijuana interdictions at the Mexican border are down substantially, youth use has not increased in states with legal access to cannabis, and responsible cannabis businesses are contributing tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact to their communities.»
«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.
A good next move for Congress would be to launch a long - overdue update of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from 1986, which makes it unlawful to break into a computer to access or alter information and, astoundingly, still serves as a legal guidepost today.
Shell companies can have legal aims such as easing access to international markets or servicing clients in many countries and none of the actions by the companies necessarily signal improper dealings.