Sentences with phrase «on civil justice»

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice is pleased to play a support role in the execution of research and dissemination activities for the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

Our vibrant research environment is further enriched by the presence of several interdisciplinary centres and institutes, including the Centre for Constitutional Studies (CCS), the Health Law Institute (HLI) and the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ).

Meanwhile, David Bilinsky reports on a recent conference on civil justice at Duke University.

Through its role on the Civil Justice Council's costs sub-committee, the ACL will continue to lobby to make the costs management regime as sensible and workable as possible — to the benefit of lawyers, clients and the wider administration of justice.

Issue 12 of the News & Views on Civil Justice Reform, from the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, released a few days ago, has a piece by Jordan Furlong, «This is Not the End of Lawyers... but this is the End of the Traditional Legal Business Model» [PDF], responding to an excerpt from Richard Susskind's book, The End of Laywers?

A condensed version of this article first appeared on the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice A2J Blog.

Of course, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice gives Slaw a regular column on Justice Issues, originally under the name of its Director, Diana Lowe, and now under the organization name.

Mitchell Perlmutter is a research assistant at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

Diana Lowe, QC is the Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

There is a list of the works collected on the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Archives site.

What about the research products of a not - for - profit, such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, or the UK's Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, or ALRI?

Its recent forum on civil justice was no exception, bringing together high level speakers and stakeholders, led on this occasion by the two big hitters on recent proposals for change, Lords Justices Briggs and Jackson.

«Justice Scalia's legacy in civil justice issues,» Tenth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, George Mason Law School, Arlington, VA, May 23, 2016 (lunch speaker)

As a passionate advocate for access to justice, Nicole spent two years as the Executive Director of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ), a national not - for - profit that works on issues of access to justice and civil justice reform and has led several local and national research projects that examine the cost, affordability and effectiveness of the civil justice system in Canada; she remains a Senior Research Fellow at the CFCJ.

Chief Justice Scott Bales established a Committee on Civil Justice Reform that is considering the CJI Recommendations and making recommendations to ensure that Arizona courts are forums for the fair and efficient resolution of disputes without undue expense or delay.

Dame Hazel Genn, Dean of the Faculty of Laws at University College London, sat on the Civil Justice Council Working Group on Litigants in Person and was the keynote speaker at the National Action Committee Symposium in Toronto last month.

Coordinated by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice the AJRN allows its members to share research, resources and other material related to access to justice.

In particular, The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice provide administrative, communications and research support.

The workshop titled, The Cost of Evidence, was facilitated by Osgoode Hall Law School professors Benjamin Berger and Trevor Farrow, and was supported by the CIAJ, Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

Along with the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and Osgoode Hall Law School, we are involved in a number of exciting Canadian projects, including the:

As Dennis O'Connor said in his keynote address in 2006 at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, «the market is sending us clear messages.

No comment on the civil justice system would be complete without some reference to summary judgment.

This review may have sat alongside a Green Paper on civil justice which the MoJ had threatened for the autumn.

[3] The Cost of Justice: Weighing the Costs of Fair and Effective Resolution to Legal Problems is a five year long study being undertaken by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice with the goal of defining the economic and social costs of justice.

An awful lot of Canadians are literally sick of their legal problems and that's having an impact on health care costs, according to new findings of a study by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

This report, which was undertaken by a sub-committee of the Council's Administration of Justice Committee, is based on records developed at its request for the new Inventory of Reforms created by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (http://cfcj-fcjc.org/inventory/).

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) has released several new publications from their Cost of Justice research project, which examines the cumulative social and economic costs associated with everyday legal problems.

The project will be carried out by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.

Some research has been collected by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice through its online «Clearinghouse» and ACE may work with the Forum to enhance that collection.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has posted a short blog on the meeting as well as short updates from A2J groups in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Professor Trevor Farrow, Academic Director, Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, Chair, Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

As part of the Cost of Justice project, The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice recently published a Selected Annotated Bibliography of some of the major national and regional legal needs surveys from 1990 to present.

The following post, which is the latest in a blog series on the project published by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, highlights the fact that engaging in unique partnerships can lead to the development of innovative products and programs.

* This piece originally appeared on the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Access to Justice Blog.

A report on civil justice in Northern Ireland took a rather cautious view of developing an online small claims court but no such inhibition has restricted progress in England and Wales.

The American Association for Justice (AAJ) is committed to advocating for the civil justice system, whether that means taking on powerful corporate interests, opposing unconstitutional attacks on the civil justice system or fighting harmful legislation that limits Americans» access to the courts.

Executive Director Paul Bland will speak on the above topic at as part of the George Mason Law & Economics Center's Symposium on the Civil Justice Issues.

OTLA is hardly out of step with this position: The very same concerns were raised in 2007 by none other than Ontario's former associate chief justice Coulter Osborne, who wrote in his report on the Civil Justice Reform Project:

The Society is engaged in similar dialogue at the national level, through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is working to improve access to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

Whatever the cause and impact of unrepresented litigants on the civil justice system may be, I am of the view that the civil justice system must exist to serve members of the public — whether represented or not.

See the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and their Access to Justice Blog and Cost of Justice project, for example, as well as the work of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP).

One of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice's primary mandates is improving access to justice.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) surveyed over 3,000 people in Canada to better understand their experiences with the civil and family justice system.

On September 15, 2015 the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) published Civil Non-Family Cases Filed in the Supreme Court of BC — Research Results and Lessons Learned.

In addition to his work as a Research Assistant at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, Lucas currently serves as a contributing editor for the Osgoode IP IPilogue, and a clinic fellow at the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic.

In this spirit, I would l like to thank the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice for inviting me to write this post, and for its ongoing efforts to keep access to justice and system reform on the agenda across the country.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice is a non-profit, independent organization dedicated to bringing together the public, the courts, the legal profession and government in order to promote a civil justice system that is accessible, effective, fair and efficient.

This documentary examines the legal, moral, and ethical ramifications of the Victim Compensation Fund and its impact on the civil justice system.

But unlike your new Task Force, those earlier ones may have had members with expertise on civil justice issues or disagreed with your desire to provide a financial windfall for your members.

Nicole Aylwin is the Assistant Director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution, Assistant Director of Research at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.