Sentences with phrase «on access to justice if»

Law Society president, Robert Heslett's letter states: «The implications for the 3,600 businesses and the people employed by those businesses are stark, to say the least, and could have a knock on effect on access to justice if any are forced to close as a result.»

Because two of the three legal aid sources are predominately supported by lawyers, decision makers should consider the potential impact on access to justice if lawyers were to dramatically reduce their time / financial support of pro bono services and legal aid programs, which is likely as competition increases and the social contract under which lawyers and society have operated Vis a Vis the state sponsored monopoly continues to unwind.

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As regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.

Finally, if you are looking for an article to fire up your passion for the need for real and tangible action on access to justice, I urge you to read this article by Mitch Kowalski on some of the shortcomings of the most recent CBA report on the subject.

If the Legal Aid Agency is to have a future it should be focused on enabling access to justice not refusing legal aid, says Jon Robins

Lord Jackson believes that BTE insurance is a beneficial product as an add - on to a household insurance policy and if his reforms relating to a choice of solicitor were implemented BTE insurance would have an important role in promoting access to justice.

The case was brought by the Public Law Project, a national legal charity that promotes access to justice, on the basis that the residence test would, if implemented, violate fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

They also wonder if the legal profession isn't focusing its efforts on civility to the detriment of the larger issue of access to justice.

If we were to draw on their collective wisdom to tackle the issues of access to justice with a multi-disciplinary approach, not only would we enhance the discussion, but we would also broaden the range of potential solutions to issues identified.

LAG would suggest that, if the government is serious about access to justice it needs to put back capacity into the system so that these people can get early advice on their legal problems.

I've only just had a chance to skim it, but in doing so I have noted a continuous thread throughout the report suggesting that it is essential, if we are to move forward effectively on the issue of access to justice, that we know what we know and what we don't yet know.

If the time is not reduced, the access to justice problem will roll benightedly on.

If we continue to view access to justice through an outdated lense that is fixated on an ancient method of delivery, we are lost.

The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Cromwell will open the Lectures on Friday, speaking about the culture shift that is necessary if the legal profession is to get a handle on ensuring access to adjudication of disputes through the courts.

Combine that with another trend — younger and new lawyers coming on stream tend to establish their practices in larger communities — and a real access to justice issue clearly begins to emerge if something were to suddenly happen to the lawyer practising on her own.

It seems to me that there are at least three principles that should be applied to the design and drafting of legislation on family law subjects if access to justice is a goal worth pursuing:

On that side, if you can learn how to code, you can just build cool little tools that will support your practice, and solve access to justice questions, or disrupt existing competitors, et cetera.

But before leaving the category of proceedings into which magistrates» court child support work falls: for the Legal Services Commission if a lawyer should seek legal aid for his client in committal proceedings (CSA 1991 s 39A — 40) it is treated as «criminal proceedings» under Access to Justice Act 1999, s 12 (2)(g) and Criminal Defence Service (General)(No 2) Regulations (SI 2001/1437) by application on CDS14 and CDS15.

The Chief Justice of British Columbia, Lance S.G. Finch, addressed a meeting of the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Bar Association recently on the subject of access to justice, singling out the high cost of legal services as a prominent, if not new, obstacle to thaJustice of British Columbia, Lance S.G. Finch, addressed a meeting of the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Bar Association recently on the subject of access to justice, singling out the high cost of legal services as a prominent, if not new, obstacle to thajustice, singling out the high cost of legal services as a prominent, if not new, obstacle to that goal.

If we're serious about access to justice, then our focus should be on reducing all of the inherent inefficiencies in the litigation process — not to mention societal inequities generally — and not on producing more lawyers who can't even afford their own services.

If the Ontario personal injury lawyers are successful in turning back the Wynne government's attack on their profits — they might want to reach out to folks like Mr. Wright and finally get busy fighting for solutions to blatantly obvious access to justice problems rife in their turf.

Even if it does, silver linings may be found in better access to justice via intelligent machines, and a renewed focus of human lawyers on expanding access to justice.

Surely we must listen to the judges who speak to the public through their decisions if there is to be any hope of honest and meaningful dialogue on all manner of access to justice issues — including the cost of personal injury lawyers — including in the context of (not always «fair and reasonable») CFAs — and including all manner of alternative delivery structures — including ABS.

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.

Lawtender believes, and itself warns, that U.S. citizens» access to justice is a serious problem, although it's not sure if ranking a subfactor of the WJP Index — something which the WJP didn't do in its report — is particularly scientific, especially when the data is based largely on an online survey of 1002 people in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

As such, if you really want to improve public access to justice in Surrey, the solution is not to flood the Lower Mainland (a market in which law students already have a very difficult time finding articles - yes, even in Surrey) with junior lawyers but to build a new courthouse on the Surrey side of the river.

If one assumes that «access to justice» and «justice» are public goods that the state takes over as soon as it detects a legal dispute (e.g., on filing a Notice of Civil Claim), then one's perspective changes.

If the public and the legal profession can reach common ground on the utility of LSRs, they have the potential to increase access to justice by providing tailored and affordable assistance when needed.

Please, if you are still on the wrong side of the rabbit hole — join your colleagues in re-imagining the value that lawyers can bring to clients, re-establishing the credibility of the legal profession among ordinary Canadians, and re-commiting to both the ideals and the reality of access to justice.

If we are to make good on the Constitutional promise for equal justice for all, we need to work with our State Legislature, as Representatives MacEwen and Kilduff said, to create much greater access to civil legal services.

On the other side of the coin, one respondent highlighted that if genuinely caring for the less fortunate «is not enough motivation, odds Pro Bono legal work is one the biggest assets the legal world has in providing «access to justice» for all.

If we are to address the twin crises of articling and access to justice we must do so on our own.

If there is growing weariness, I expect some of that is generated by those on the frontlines who continue to slog forward while waiting for those in governments and courts to finish «exploring initiatives» and start funding and implementing initiatives that actually do increase access to justice.

If you're not on the frontlines but are getting tired of hearing the cries for access to justice, you have a few options:

What if law societies made it more economically feasible for lawyers to work on pro bono or in the access to justice sector by providing practice fee rebates or credits?

What if ethics committees were required to consider the impact of proposed rule changes on access to justice for those of middle and low socioeconomic status?

My personal view is that isn't a problem, if at least some of the graduates are enabled to go in directions that do have an impact on access to justice.

Following up on Department of Justice Access to Justice Director Lisa Foster's recent speech, and my video on «The Litigant Voice,» I had an idea about how we can all start to think about, in Lisa Foster's words: What if... Continue reading →

If not for her passion for court administration and access to justice, she may have focused her energies on impressions of the «before» scenes in infomercials about the difficulties of plastic wrap.

The calls to action are instead geared toward developing justice system innovations and applying direct and indirect political pressure on governments to better facilitate if not provide equal access to justice by 2030.

Also consider: If the on - line system provided supporting information and guidance through the dispute or payment process, would this enhance access to justice for self - represented litigants?

If you have access to it, an excellent paper by Justice Sherr on his approach to focussed hearings is available from the National Judicial Institute in the materials for their 2014 Family Law Seminar.

In the Lam case, MacDonald put forward a Supreme Court of Canada decision — Hryniak v. Mauldin — that talks about proportionality, affordable access to justice, and the fact these kind of summary trial rules should be given a broad latitude and if a judge, in his or her discretion, feels they can grant judgment on the evidence before them they should be allowed to do so.

But what I can say is that is that if we have reached the point that our justice system is so broken that we have to resort to the incarceration of family litigants, based on the subjective assessment of a single justice who has clearly formed strong opinions about the culpability of the parties, we have a very big problem that should be alarming all access to justice advocates.

His Honour Judge Hacon has made an important decision in respect of whether to transfer proceedings out of the IPEC on the basis that if he did allow the transfer, then the Claimant's practical ability to retain access to justice would be hindered.

The Victorian Department of Justice suggests that the Tribunal's Register could be better utilised and provide access to greater levels of information if s 199B was amended to broaden the list of details that must be included on the Tribunal's Register.