Sentences with phrase «of access to legal services»

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.

(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.

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.»

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.

The problem to be solved is the lack of access to legal services.

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.

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.»

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).

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.

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.

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.

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«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.

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.

According to Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT professional services, 54 % of U.S. corporations restrict employee access to social networks due to concerns about productivity, network security, and legal liabilities.

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Lader argued that since early abortions are statistically safer for the woman than childbirth, and since the morality of such abortions is a matter of religious and philosophical dispute, the state ought not to prevent women from having legal access to abortion services:

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

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Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.

Commenting on the announcement from the Ministry of Justice that CMC customers will have access to the Legal Services Ombudsman from next year, Chris Lawrenson, Head of Legal Services at the Building Societies Association said;

As elected officials struggle to address the ongoing opioid crisis, one of the more controversial proposals has been legal injection sites, where addicts would have access to clean needles, medical staff, and a variety of information and services — including treatment options.

Through this project, SPIRASI and Freedom from Torture are working together to provide access to a range of multi-disciplinary support to torture survivors in London and Dublin, including physical and psychotherapeutic treatment, psycho - social counselling, legal services and socioeconomic support to torture survivors.

Eight protesters were arrested after they blocked access to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office while calling on the state to cover the cost of legal services for the poor.

Concerns were expressed about the possibility of police and security services having access to this information, but a DoH spokesman insisted the legal protection of such data would not change.

«I will continue to do everything in my power to not just fight this executive order, but to protect the families caught in the chaos sown by President Trump's hasty and irresponsible implementation — including pressing DHS and CBP to provide a full list of those still detained and allow them access to legal service providers,» Schneiderman said.

Victims of domestic violence may need quick access to shelter, legal advice, medical services and possibly transfer a child from his / her current school to another school.

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Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

NEW YORK CITY — Tenants facing eviction will receive free access to legal services as part of a $ 93 million initiative, city officials announced this week.

A federal judge says the legal services group that oversees the welfare of disabled and mentally ill New Yorkers has the right to access the special education classroom and records of a school district where parents complained of abuse.

Our network of seven NYC Business Solutions Centers located in all five boroughs offer free business courses in multiple languages, access to financing assistance and incentives, recruitment services, employee training, and pro-bono legal advising.

Ms Rudd sought to stress the distinction between the government's illegal immigration clampdown and treatment of legal British citizens in the Windrush generation, who came to the UK decades ago but who have have faced threats of deportation and loss of access to public services.

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.