Sentences with phrase «of improving access to justice»
The legal help guide model deserves close attention from government and the bar as a means of improving access to justice by improving public legal literacy, a concept I've written about elsewhere.
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On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers... [more]
The Legal Resources Foundation, with the support of the EU under the Zimbabwe Justice Sector Programme, is offering legal training to traditional leaders with the aim of improving access to justice for rural communities in Zimbabwe, particularly those who are marginalised and vulnerable.
Furthermore, all of our software applications — including ISA — are designed and developed in a perspective of simplicity, sharing and flexibility, which is consistent with our overarching objective of improving access to justice through technology.
It may seem an odd proposition that the Woolf reforms, with their legitimate aims of improving access to justice and reducing the cost of civil litigation, have, 10 years on, failed a constituency many would argue least worthy of assistance in the first place.
When thinking about ways of improving access to justice, it can help to begin at the beginning and review the barriers that inhibit access to justice.
Several Slaw contributors and countless others elsewhere regularly grapple with how to identify, define and address a variety of access gaps the overcoming of which would presumably meet our common goal of improving access to justice.
That said, no matter what barriers remain in the overall pursuit of improving access to justice, we must continue to do all we can to ensure knowledge of the law is accessible to those who seek it out.
In addition, the Action Committee works to bring people together nationally around a common agenda of improved access to justice.
Innovation can be a driver of improved access to justice.
On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers.
The government has now accommodated those concerns to an extent by providing, in LSA 2007, s 83 (5)(b) that a licensing authority must, in its licensing rules — which are subject both to consultation and to LSB approval — provide for the ways in which it should, when considering an application for an ABS licence, take account of the regulatory objective of improving access to justice.
But even among lawyers with an awareness of the presence and mission of the PLEIs, a dismissive attitude about the benefit of public legal education as a means of improving access to justice can surface.
Schonhoffer says law societies feel emboldened by the Canadian Bar Association's Futures report, which encouraged legal regulators to reimagine how the profession is governed in hopes of improving access to justice.