The study also shows that the leave requirement, at least as it has been applied in recent years, creates an arbitrary limit
on access to justice for refugees.
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.
Make existing research easily accessible and understandable to civil legal aid programs, pro bono programs, bar associations, state
access to justice commissions, researchers, funders and policy makers.
An argument often made
about access to justice initiatives with technology is that it might actually make things worse.
Increasing
access to justice by expanding funding to family law, and criminal, mental health, poverty, and refugee legal aid.
Nonetheless, many, like those in BC experimenting with an inclusive family justice social lab and those working to establish local
access to justice committees, are already trying.
Members of the profession are also being encouraged to support the drive by donating the equivalent of one billable hour in support of
access to justice initiatives by the five organizations involved.
In theory, contingent fee pricing is an elegant way of providing
access to justice at a fair and reasonable price.
Seeing the same faces and hearing recycled taking points on «how technology will ensure
greater access to justice for the poor» is really getting old.
Under his leadership, his teams have used online technologies to
expand access to the justice system and have passionately helped more than a million consumers connect with legal representation.
Ensure
better access to justice by working to improve the use and application of litigation funding as part of the rational management of financial risk in dispute resolution.
As long as
access to justice challenges are only understood within the justice system, the possible solutions will be limited to the scope of influence, resources and imagination of the justice system.
A logical solution to
solve access to justice and lawyer affordability would be to bring in big business and economic minds to help.
We believe it is vital for the government to ensure that nobody is
denied access to justice based on their ability to pay.
Thus, ensuring
effective access to justice under the rule of law should not be done according to socialist principles but this means serious resource concerns.
Today's ruling determines that the cost of delivering that objective was too great in
restricting access to justice and the protection of employee rights.
This plan has a structured timeline meant to
further access to justice using technology across a variety of courts and areas of the law.
Over the past several years, a number of
access to justice reports have noted this lack of research, and have called for more.
It seems the public are getting greatly
reduced access to justice, but the bureaucracy of legal aid is costing much the same.