Sentences with phrase «of facilitating access to justice»

It was seen as an opportunity to maintain relationships in pursuit of facilitating access to justice for the people of Ontario and to educate legislators about regulatory functions and mandate.

Copibec believed the judge's logic went against the class action's goals of facilitating access to justice, preserving judicial resources and sanctioning wrongful acts.

The profession needs to progress from its current starting point of facilitating access to justice, to the point where it can be seen to be actively prioritising it.

Not exact matches

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

While acknowledging that contingency fees are needed to facilitate access to justice, the Court clarified that policy goal of reducing barriers to legal services is but one factor to consider, and that the policy of maintaining the integrity of the profession is a primary concern with deep roots.

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.

This is the question that I was asking myself as I participated a recent workshop on enhancing access to justice in the area of family law, coordinated by the Manitoba Law Foundation and facilitated by John Paul Boyd.

You claim that «the duty to advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, as well as to undertake measures to facilitate access to justice and protect the public interest, is also synonymous with a duty to «promote».

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.

The goal of the website is to expand access to justice by facilitating the sharing of information and resources among legal services advocates and by promoting pro bono representation by the private bar.

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.

Electronically facilitate access to criminal justice by increasing the turnaround time for delivery of pro-bono legal services through collating, analyzing, and collaborating on existing case data.

The Society has a duty to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

The benchers are to regulate the legal profession so as to, «maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,» and, «facilitate access to justice,» and, «to protect the public interest,» being, for example, among the express duties of LSUC (the Law Society of Upper Canada), [2] being duties expressly set out in legislation such as... [more]

Project LemonAid aims to electronically facilitate access to criminal justice by decreasing the turnaround time for delivery of pro-bono legal services through collating, analyzing, and collaborating on existing case data.

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.

In Ontario, the Law Society Act instructs that the Law Society has duties to (i) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, (ii) facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario and (iii) to protect the public interest.

This situation violates the duties imposed upon the Law Society of Upper Canada by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, and to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

When we levy unfair, unjust fees that undermine our capacity to facilitate access to justice, we betray the trust of Ontario's citizenry.

«My colleague's interpretation effectively bars Part XXIII.1 from fulfilling either of its goals; it can neither facilitate access to justice for investors nor deter corporate misconduct,» she wrote.

While counsel must heed the Supreme Court's call to «act in a way that facilitates rather than frustrates access to justice,» the success of Hryniak will hinge in large part on whether judges take up the Supreme Court's broader call to «actively manage the legal process in line with the principle of proportionality.»

The main challenges are: 1) working your way through an ad - hoc process that rests on a yes / no decision of a Chief Justice; 2) juggling a mix of standards and unique requirements that reduce the possible uses of the whole to the strictest of terms imposed by one; and 3) the court actually finding a way to provide or facilitate access to both current and historical decisions in a usable format.

On February 22, 2018, Justice Parry found that the officer breached her obligation to inform Mitchell of his right to counsel without delay and breached her implementational duty to facilitate access to counsel at the first reasonable opportunity.

The goals of the website are to expand access to justice by facilitating the sharing of information and resources among legal services advocates and by promoting pro bono representation by the private bar.

With the government's intent to sell justice on the open market, it has never been a more relevant and appropriate time to promote the Magna Carta and increase public awareness; in doing so achieving the important goal of prioritising access to justice, rather than simply facilitating it.

«That Convocation approve the creation of a framework to facilitate the reinforcement and integration of access to justice objectives into the core business, functions and operational planning of the Law Society, the key components of which are as follows, and as further described in this report:

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.

Even the judiciary have become embroiled in the debate, heavily criticising many of the Lord Chancellor's decisions, and in doing so upholding and facilitating access to justice (see R (on the application of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 145 (Sep); and R (on the application of the Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All Ejustice (see R (on the application of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 145 (Sep); and R (on the application of the Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All EJustice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All ER 689).

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

The Boston Bar works to advance the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, facilitate access to justice, and serve the community at large.

Commercial litigation finance is helping to facilitate access to justice — for companies that may have been on the receiving end of bullying behavior by larger entities — and need to have their day in court and get on with their business.

As such the articles are a form of free first legal advice, and facilitate access to justice.

The goal of the Measuring Justice Research Project is to increase fairness and access to justice globally by facilitating and promoting an evidence - based approach to criminal legJustice Research Project is to increase fairness and access to justice globally by facilitating and promoting an evidence - based approach to criminal legjustice globally by facilitating and promoting an evidence - based approach to criminal legal aid.

Visionary endeavours like the CAT and other similar initiatives like the Civil Resolution Tribunal in British - Columbia are wonderful examples of how ODR can be used in a way to facilitate true access to justice through virtual means.

That is a violation of the duties imposed on the law society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient manner.

Unless lawyers adopt the same approach, taking into account their clients» means and the nature of the case, access to justice will continue to be frustrated, rather than facilitated.

In this respect, the report observes that to understand the factors that impede or facilitate access to justice, it is essential for researchers to be able to engage with users of the justice system.

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.

The goal was to apply innovative ideas and emerging (or any) technologies to progress the business of law or facilitate access to justice for the public.

The goal is to apply innovative ideas and emerging technologies to progress the business of law or facilitate access to justice for the public.

Evidence of this could be found, for example, in the large amount of materials posted on the Commission's website (videotaped presentations, webinar, written submissions,...) and the Commission's efforts to facilitate a large number of what it termed «grassroots meetings,» which the Commission described as «local conversations [to] create new avenues for access to justice for all and open doors to new career opportunities for current and future lawyers.»

Finally, the paper calls for a greater commitment from the Supreme Court of Canada to facilitate access to justice.

The mission of AJEFA is to facilitate public access to legal services in French and to promote the use of the French language in the administration of justice in Alberta.

Lawyers have a special obligation to act in the best interests of their clients: «counsel must, in accordance with the traditions of their profession, act in a way that facilitates rather than frustrates access to justice.

To further its commitment to facilitating access to justice for Ontarians, Convocation voted overwhelmingly to change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.&raquTo further its commitment to facilitating access to justice for Ontarians, Convocation voted overwhelmingly to change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.&raquto facilitating access to justice for Ontarians, Convocation voted overwhelmingly to change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.&raquto justice for Ontarians, Convocation voted overwhelmingly to change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.&raquto change the Law Society's name at its next meeting in November and to discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.&raquto discontinue use of the words «Upper Canada.»

In outlining its reasons, the Court stated that «the class action is designed to facilitate authors» access to justice while preserving judicial resources and, where appropriate, to effectively sanction acts that would otherwise remain protected from judicial intervention because of the low level of injury when assessed on an individual basis.

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 point is expanding and improving access to legal literature for the benefit of all who have a stake or interest in the research and its results, enhancing access to justice by facilitating access to legal information.

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.