Sentences with phrase «on access to legal services»

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A nationwide survey on access to legal services, which is currently underway, will ultimately help improve public access to justice, Minister of Justice Mark Burton said today.

The Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award was established by the Special Committee on Access to Legal Services of the Virginia State Bar in 2016 to honor organizations that have made outstanding contributions in the area of pro bono legal services for the poor.

Established by the bar's Special Committee on Access to Legal Services, the award is presented at a luncheon for interested members of the legal aid and pro bono communities.

The Federation of Law Societies of Canada (www.flsc.ca), the national coordinating body for law societies, has a Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services.

A recent article in the ABA Journal on access to legal services in rural America noted that «Nearly 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, but the New York Times says just 2 percent of small law practices are in those areas.

Jeff currently chairs the Federation's Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services and represents Council on Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

• An indication of how the project will: - broaden knowledge about the legal needs of persons who are Deaf, the best ways to meet those needs, and how to ensure access to sign language interpreters in community legal settings; and - contribute to a vision on access to legal services in community settings by persons who are Deaf, deafened or hard of hearing.

[5] Click on the highlighted word «inventory,» in the last line at this site, which states: «The Federation's Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services has produced an inventory of access to legal services initiatives of Canada» law societies.»

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«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

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Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.

Commenting on the announcement from the Ministry of Justice that CMC customers will have access to the Legal Services Ombudsman from next year, Chris Lawrenson, Head of Legal Services at the Building Societies Association said;

Eight protesters were arrested after they blocked access to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office while calling on the state to cover the cost of legal services for the poor.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.

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We are mostly capable users of the different illegal og legal services on the internet that provide access to digital content and we have big accumulated hard copy libraries that we don't use anymore because we have become used to fx.

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The City Strategic Plans on UPA drastically improved the legal status of urban producers and the security of their land use; better service provision to urban farmers (training and extension, veterinary services; improved access of urban producer groups to local sources of financing and credit)

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

For this reason, lawyers must establish policies and procedures, and periodically train employees, subordinates and others assisting in the delivery of legal services, in the use of reasonably secure methods of electronic communications with clients, as well as on reasonable measures for access to and storage of those communications.

«People want access to legal advice online and they want that to be offered with complete transparency on cost and scope of service.

The profession is far from settled on having a comprehensive and effective plan to promote access to legal services, and we are likely to hear loud calls for accountability.

The firm also sells additional services, both through monthly memberships, which provide additional access to lawyers and legal documents, and on as as - needed basis, which allows purchase of various unbundled services, such as having an attorney draft a document or argue in court.

See also: (1) «Access to Justice: A Critique of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (pdf; posted on the SSRN on, May 21, 2014); and, (2) «Self - Represented Litigants» Tax Money Provides More Funding for Legal Aid Ontario,» (posted on Slaw, on July 31, 2015).

Neither report focuses on non-market provision of legal services through legal aid and otherwise or effect of the law and legal institutions on access to justice.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

Its proposals are set out in a consultation paper published last week and due to end on 15 June, «Protecting the users of legal services: balancing cost and access to legal services».

Registrants will receive what are described as «bundled benefits,» including digital access to five news articles every 30 days from ALM's legal publications, discounts on ALM products and services, and access to ALM's news alerts and newsletters.

The article's author begins by explaining that in an earlier article he had criticized the ABA for «failing to step up on a number of pressing social issues,» such as preserving the rule of law, defending human rights and inadequate access to legal services.

More and more legal firms and service providers are relying on Cloud storage to keep data safe, as it provides access to better security and expert remote management of software / IT as part of the service, and more robust backup procedures than what may be available in house.

Not surprisingly, the panel had some disheartening statistics on access to justice, with Gulotta noting the United States ranks a dismal 94th of 113 nations surveyed on access to justice, Minow adding that 15 - 30 percent of legal services lawyers have been laid off over the last eight years, and Justice Goodwyn citing US Department of Justice data indicating that more than half of those qualified for civil legal aid had to be turned away — and that wasn't even considering the many people who didn't even know where to go.

Alternative structures and ending the lawyer monopoly on legal services are fundamentally about access to justice and equal protection of the law.

For every hour spent teaching students how to access information (in books, on the paid services, or on the open web), professors should devote many more hours to assuring that students understand legal authority and gain significant experience actually working with it.

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.

Further, any woman who has an unwanted pregnancy while attending TWU will face an unconscionable restriction on her autonomy in having to continue with that pregnancy or face expulsion or other discriminatory sanction for accessing legal abortion services.

Outgoing AALS president Paul Marcus of the William & Mary Law School organized the opening plenary on access to justice where he was joined by Cara Drinan of Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, Associate Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn of the Virginia Supreme Court, veteran legal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Mlegal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha MLegal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha MLegal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow.

Richard Granat moderated a Panel on Technology and UnBundling Legal Services - a path towards access to justice.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

Report Commented On: Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, Access to Legal Services in Women's Shelters

By: Eleanor A. Carlson PDF Version: Law Students, Legal Services, and Access to Justice Legislation and Rules Commented On: Legal Profession Act, RSA 2000, c L - 8; Rules of the Law Society of Alberta; Law Society of Alberta Code of Conduct... Continue reading →

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

Legal Services Corporation has released a new video on the statewide access to justice portals.

We maintain a 24 - hour call service to protect your rights and to ensure that you have access to justice at all times and accept cases on private retainers as well as Legal Aid.

I believe the program it's good it could have an unprecedent impact on delivering legal services to those who lack access, and the resources to get effective legal services.

The Florida Bar Foundation strives to provide greater access to justice in Florida by: expanding and improving representation and advocacy on behalf of low - income persons in civil legal matters; improving the fair and effective administration of justice; and promoting public service among lawyers by making it an integral component of the law school experience.