Sentences with phrase «of racialized»

Noting that there has been an over-representation of racialized communities in the justice system, LAO will be asking clients in these communities a series of questions about what may not be working for them in terms of LAO's rules and processes, and what gaps there may be in legal services.

To further this mandate, LAO reports that it is launching a Racialized Communities Strategy, which it hopes will allow it to «build upon [its] services and supports to better help with the legal needs of racialized communities.»

The first year of the Racialized Communities Strategies will be spent identifying ways in which LAO's legal services can be enhanced to address the needs of this specific community.

Using the information gathered from these diverse sources, LAO will build upon its services and supports to better help with the legal needs of racialized communities, in order to:

The concern arises where document review lawyers disproportionately consist of racialized young lawyers, or female lawyers who demand greater constraints on work hours.

I have read the articles denying the relative disadvantage of racialized lawyers carefully.

They cite the fact that proportion of racialized lawyers in the profession has doubled over 12 years.

And so the law society in Ontario conducted an inquiry into the status of racialized licensees, and discovered what many of us have been saying all along — there is a widespread and pervasive problem in the legal industry related to racialized lawyers.

Take, for example, the finding in the Consultation Paper that almost half of the racialized licensees surveyed «strongly or somewhat agreed» that they had struggled to find an articling position or training placement.

Identify barriers to and facilitate active involvement of racialized and Aboriginal lawyers in the volunteer functions of the Society, on Council and on other Committees;

How to facilitate entry into the Nova Scotia legal profession of racialized and Aboriginal Peoples;

And it is important to remember that 57 % of the racialized licensees who completed the survey did not identify «ethnic / racial identity as a barrier / challenge to advancement.»

One of its main objectives is «to increase representation of racialized lawyers in the profession in proportion to the representation in the Ontario population, in all legal workplaces and at all levels of seniority.»

How serious should we believe the barriers and challenges to be when only19 % of the racialized licensees completed the survey and 57 % of that 19 % cohort said that «ethnic / racial identity» was not a barrier?

Another strategy is the requirement that, for any legal workplace that has ten or more licensees (lawyers), the workplace must have a Human Rights and Diversity Policy that addresses fair recruitment, retention, and advancement of racialized persons and minorities.

Twenty - six percent (26 %) of racialized lawyers reported experiencing disrespectful remarks by judges and other lawyers occasionally, routinely or frequently, compared to 21 % of non-racialized lawyers.»

Survey Participation by Racialized and Non-Racialized Licensees — In terms of racialized and non-racialized licensees, of the 3296 who completed the survey, 1665 (51 %) of the sample) were racialized and 1631 (49 % of the sample) were non-racialized.

The research apparently showed that «43 % of racialized licensees identified ethnic / racial identity as a barrier / challenge to advancement».

In terms of the research design of the study, we are told that, «Insight into the experiences of the whole population is critical for contextualizing, and understanding, the experiences of racialized licensees in particular.»

These stereotypes are reinforced by the underrepresentation of racialized members among the judiciary and managing partners of the mid - and large firms.

That means that 19 % of racialized licensees and4.5 % of non-racialized licensees completed the survey.

True labour solidarity means addressing the economic exclusion of racialized and Aboriginal workers.

COP - COC is a province - wide initiative made up of individuals, groups and organizations working to build community - based capacity to address the growing racialization of poverty — for both First Peoples and peoples of colour — and the resulting increased levels of social exclusion and marginalization of racialized communities across Ontario.

A lawyer was both a member of a racialized community and first licensed as a lawyer in her late 50s.

Under the guise of relationship building and becoming familiar faces in the community, TAVIS officers have aggressively assaulted and drawn guns on young people on the streets of their neighbourhoods, performed strip searches in broad daylight, and arbitrarily stopped hundreds of racialized people without cause in public areas to question them and gather intelligence — a practice known as carding, which has been targeted primarily at Toronto's Black community.

Today, our profession's resistance to the recruitment and advancement of racialized lawyers, especially among the black and indigenous communities who suffer daily overt racism in Canadian society, is a wrong that must be righted.

It will be interesting to see what impact, in the long run, such a program will have on future reports on the experience and representation of racialized lawyers in the profession.

The police were in fact patrolling a different neighbourhood, 20 km away on the other side of the city, albeit one that has a high crime rate and also a significantly higher proportion of racialized communities.

Think about what is facing us: the calls to action, the future of articling — or if not articling, what to have in its place — the impact of technology on legal practice, the access to justice imperative, the experience of racialized members of the profession, mental health among lawyers and law students and so on and so on.

A potential remedial measure for the lack of racialized women in private law firms may be to implement assertiveness workshops and mandatory diversity workshops.

This gave rise to the final report to Convocation in 2016, Working Together for Change: Strategies to Address Issues of Systemic Racism in the Legal Professions, which found that forty per cent of racialized licensees identified their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to entry to practise, while 43 per cent cited their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to advancement.

With this case, Canadian law has rightly provided protection against defamation to an individual subjected to repeated published attacks on her reputation that were not only false as found by the jury's findings of defamation, but which specifically defamed the plaintiff based on her status as a member of a racialized group.

«We are witnessing a surge in the number of racialized lawyers mirroring the surge of women lawyers that took place 20 years ago.»

In the last decade, gains in the representation of women are attributable largely to increased numbers of racialized women.

The difference in the median earnings of racialized and white lawyers, just $ 4,000 per year for lawyers between 25 and 29, grows to more than $ 40,000 by ages 40 to 44.

On the other hand, if not accepted or if implementation is not properly managed, these valuable recommendations run the risk of being just another great initiative that dies a slow and painful death, ensuring that our system continues to fail the needs of our racialized lawyers.

The fact that many of the stops of racialized men for «criminal offences» and «suspicious activities» did not lead to a charge, arrest or detention suggests that racial profiling — through conscious or unconscious bias, systemic racism, or otherwise — may indeed be responsible for the large number of unnecessary stops.

While 23 per cent of Ontario's population was racialized in 2010, just 17 per cent of the legal profession was composed of racialized lawyers.

In 2015, it was slightly more than 40 % that identified as members of a racialized group.

Sorry that should have read «new calls who are members of racialized groups would still be overrepresented relative to Ontario's population».

Wan na bet that group disproportionately includes members of racialized groups, for all the reasons you mention?)

You said: «I don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law students in all law schools (the figures linked above are for lawyers, and just in Ontario).»

We know from NCA stats and information gleaned from the LPP that a significant portion of these racialized new calls are not graduates of Canadian law schools, so those figures are truly misleading.

Recently, I attended a session that brought together Legal Aid officials and representatives of legal clinics, among others, to discuss how to improve access to clinic services by members of racialized communities.

If you're going to say that you «don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law schools», you can not suggest, as you did in your original post, that law schools are filled with a homogenous population that isolated from the rich diversity of the Canadian population and lacking in experience dealing with diversity.

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».

Key informants, focus group participants and survey respondents identified racialization as a significant factor that shapes the experiences and career outcomes of racialized licensees.

So, at the very least (depending on the non-respondents) almost 40 % of the class identify as members of a racialized group.

Forty percent (40 %) of racialized licensees identified their ethnic / racial identity as a barrier to entry to practice, while only 3 % of non-racialized licensees identified ethnic / racial identity as a barrier.

One point made by equity seeking groups to the Working Group was that not only is access to justice impeded by the systematic exclusion of racialized licensees in the province, but it also runs contrary to the public interest.