Sentences with phrase «of accessing justice»

In conjunction with this role, he assisted in carrying out a brief survey of Access to Justice efforts and the extent to which they include the voice of actual consumers of legal services in responding to the difficulties of accessing justice in Canada.

For example, one of our keynote speakers is, I am going to totally mispronounce her name, and I apologize to her in advance, but, Haben Girma, and she is the first blind deaf attorney to graduate from Harvard Law School, and she is going to come and talk about the idea of accessibility, both for clients and how there are accessibility challenges in terms of accessing justice, but also for lawyers, and how the different challenges that each lawyer face are surmountable, and she will use her personal example to walk you through that.

It is within this context that Atticus is set forth with the task of accessing justice for an African - American man where institutionalized racism prevails.

Private prosecutions are increasing and sometimes are regarded as a more effective means of accessing justice than a law suit brought in the civil courts.

Not exact matches

In the words of the chief justice in the Chaoulli v. Quebec case, in which the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the prohibition against private health insurance in the province in 2005, «Access to a waiting list is not access to health care.&Access to a waiting list is not access to health care.&access to health care.»

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

The case was dropped after the Department of Justice was able to access the iPhone.

Soon after Daniela Barbosa Assunção de Souza, a judge in Rio de Janeiro state, told mobile operators to stymie access to the Facebook - owned (fb) messaging app, the chief justice of Brazil's supreme court suspended her decision.

For now a Department of Justice internal bulletin has instructed that, unless border officers have a search warrant, they need to take protective measures to limit intrusions, and make sure their searches do not access travelers» digital cloud data.

The World Justice Project ranked the US 18th in the world in its most recent rule - of - law rankings, judged by criteria like accountability, absence of corruption, respect for fundamental rights, and access to jJustice Project ranked the US 18th in the world in its most recent rule - of - law rankings, judged by criteria like accountability, absence of corruption, respect for fundamental rights, and access to justicejustice.

«To get full access to the single market you have to contribute to the budget and accept the freedoms, the four pillars and you have to accept the jurisdiction [of the European Court of Justice],» he told Andrew Marr in an interview due to be aired on BBC One on Sunday.

Some justices worried during arguments in April that a ruling for the broadcasters could also harm the burgeoning world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information.

The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept by a 25 - year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards» in the days leading up to the election.

Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron, however, said Pai has «never met a mega-merger he didn't like or a public safeguard he didn't try to undermine,» calling him «an inveterate opponent of net neutrality, expanded broadband access for low - income families, broadband privacy, prison - phone justice, media diversity and more.»

«The difference between selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not kind,» Justice Stevens wrote.

In search of any evidence of White House pressure on the Department of Justice, AT&T asked the judge overseeing the case for access to White House correspondence, which the judge denied.

But so many other dimensions of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.

The Time Warner deal, which would give AT&T access to content like HBO's «Game of Thrones» and Warner Bros» «Justice League,» reflects AT&T's effort to compete for advertising dollars against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Facebook (FB.O).

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of four defendants, two Russian intelligence officers and two state - sponsored hackers, for the theft of Yahoo user data in late 2014, as well as cookie forging to obtain access to user accounts on our network in 2015 and 2016.

The majority opinion, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

These data provoke concern in terms of economic justice, but another real issue is that media owners and players are «gatekeepers,» with the power to define who has access to information.

Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king's manner toward all who knew law and justice, those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom): «What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus brought to her by the eunuchs?»

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

FCC Smedes, justice involves the right for all persons to share in the; common goods.36 To be able to provide for your family, to live where you can afford a house, to have access to adequate health care and public accommodations, these are rights that all possess by reason of their God - appointed humanity.

«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

It has insisted on equality between women and men, and on justice for women regarding access to basic needs, the means of sustaining a livelihood and the decision - making processes that organize and regulate the common life.

We mean by justice an order of life which gives to each member of the community the fullest possible access to the sources of fulfilment.

The churches of the world are a global communication system through which the voices of those rendered voiceless because they lack access to the media can be raised to question societal trends that may be antithetical to justice, freedom and human dignity.

Emboldened by the pope's overt approval of his regime, made manifest in their meeting in Rome this past spring, the octogenarian dictator boasted: «We have founded an equitable society with social justice and extensive access to culture, attached to traditions and to the most advanced ideas of Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.»

For an agonizingly long time, such victims of torture and gross injustice had no access to justice.

Justice Thomas, in dissent, wrote, «The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that «the freedom of speech,» as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors» parents or guardians.»

In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

On access to justice, claim «cost prohibitive for an independent supermarket or liquor store owner to bring an action with the Federal Court seeking relief from anticompetitive behaviours...» - argues for «no cost orders» and a mandatory enforceable Supermarket and Liquor store Code of Conduct.

Justice Greenwood found that the respondents» conduct «had the purpose and effect of preventing a competitor from entering the market by obtaining direct access to a source of flyash in South East Queensland» and, as a result, having the purpose and effect of substantially lessening competition.»

There were also several submissions from IGA stores - most adopting very similar (in some cases identical) wording - these typically focus on misuse of market power, access to justice, zoning restrictions and a supermarket code of conduct.

In the beginning I did not have access to pomegranate molasses so I subbed a reduction of pomegranate juice, which doesn't do the cake justice!

The proposals, which look to increase the small claims limit for personal injury claims from # 1,000 to # 5,000 for all those involved in road traffic incidents, would mean that thousands of injured cyclists would be unable to recover their legal costs and therefore be denied access to justice.

Such consideration would add a measure of justice to the current divorce process; it would also discourage some divorces, as spouses who would otherwise seek an easy exit might avoid a divorce that would harm them financially or limit their access to their children.

See for example, United States of America vs Smyrna Playschool, Department of Justice Complaint 202-14-46, revised 6 February 2001, accessed August 2007, http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cumberld.htm.

Low - income communities lack access to affordable healthy food and that is one of the most critical social justice issues today.

The Press summary of the judgment explains that «The Fees Order is unlawful under both domestic and EU law because it has the effect of preventing access to justice.»

They found that the rules to access legal aid for victims of domestic abuse were so restrictive that 40 % of women didn't meet the requirements to get the support they needed to access justice.

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

Meanwhile, the Bach Commission on Access to Justice found a collapse in the number of legal advice centres from around 3,226 in 2005 to 1,462 by 2015.

«Juxtaposing the corruption that has recently been exposed to our topic of discussion today, brings so much to deliberate on because it is universally recognized that increased access to justice depends on public confidence in the justice system.

As Mr Justice Singh rather crisply pointed out, refusing all prisoners access to the telephone line was based on «an understanding of the law which is wrong».

But ensuring broad access tocontrol over productive resources is a central demand of his view of social justice.

«I'm extremely grateful to Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and my colleagues in the Democratic Conference forcing today's vote and letting New Yorkers know where their senators stand on this basic question of access to justice.»

The Ministry of Justice says prisoners still have access to the prison library and can spend any money they make in prison work on books.