Sentences with phrase «people have access to justice»

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The Canadian government must also take concrete steps to ensure that people who are harmed by Canadian companies overseas have the opportunity to seek justice in Canada through a mining ombudsperson and access to Canadian courts.

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«Both the statute and case law surrounding private prosecutions are adamant that courts must protect the right of access to these private prosecutions, by not assessing punitive costs against the person seeking justice - unless the case is frivolous, and never should have been brought.

Legal aid enables people to have access for justice.

Speaking to reporters in Times Square, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said that as early as Wednesday, Democrats would move to add legislation to ban people suspected of terrorist inclinations from accessing firearms as an amendment to a Justice Department appropriations bill.

«Disabled people should not have delayed access to justice of sometimes several months in order to first pursue an often futile mandatory reconsideration request to the DWP.

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached an agreement with North Adams to improve access for people with disabilities.

Gibb said: «As part of our commitment to social justice, we are restoring rigour to the curriculum so all young people, irrespective of background, have access to an excellent, well - rounded education.

A 2005 report published by Graeme R. Newman and Megan M. McNally for the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that 14 % of people who knew how their information was compromised believed it was obtained through «other» means, which include theft by people who had access to their information.

However, another critique launched at the AMP has less to do with its process and more to do with it's digital nature: «what about those people who don't have access to a computer, how will they dispute a charge — this is an access to justice issue».

The conversations that lawyers should be having about access to justice should be about the law itself — the stuff that other people don't understand and can't work with.

I am extremely honored to announce that I have been elected a trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the premiere legal charity in Massachusetts working to increase access to justice for all people in the state.

Our CEO, Charley Moore, says: «The 14th Amendment's purpose is equality before the law, it is our duty to make sure that every person has equal access to justice.»

The news will come as a relief to many lawyers, who feared fixed costs for all cases up to # 250,000 — as previously suggested by Jackson LJ — would make many cases commercially unviable, curbing access to justice for many people with valid claims.

It also plausible that the access to justice gap would be even worse if ordinary people did not have assurance of minimum competence, quality and conduct.

It is widely accepted that many people with serious civil justice problems do not have access to the courts and thus do not appear as un-represented litigants.

The Aarhus Convention through that provision only permitted refusal to access to documents if it would adversely affect «the course of justice, the ability of a person to receive a fair trial or the ability of a public authority to conduct an enquiry of a criminal or disciplinary nature».

That said, access to justice as access to courts afforded to people with little financial means shouldn't be contingent only on whether we have a mosaic - like legal community.

protected access to justice as Acas's conciliation service has been effective in assisting people resolve their disputes.

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 wherejustice, 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 wherejustice, 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 whereJustice 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 whereJustice 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.

Last but certainly not least, with more than 1 in 4 respondents (26 %) having experienced a stress - related illness and more than 1 in 5 respondents (21 %) reporting the loss of employment or need to relocate as a result of their legal problem, Global Insights on Access to Justice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sJustice reinforces the role of justice issues on people'sjustice issues on people's lives.

We look forward to her leadership in guiding the organization into the future and ensuring that people most in need have equal access to justice,» Kidwell says.

This then ensures all people have equal access to our justice system with experienced attorneys representing them.

[38] I would point out that an order under section 140 (1) does not deprive a person of access to justice; rather, it provides extra scrutiny by the court, and impresses potential claims with a form of orderliness without prejudicing their merits.

Many people are hesitant to pursue justice because they are worried about the cost of an attorney, but at Morgan & Morgan, we believe all people should have access to high - quality legal representation.

This way, an increased number of people will be able to have access to justice.

Following the legal aid cuts introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO»), it is clear that access to justice has been severely limited — both in terms of the areas of law for which people can obtain publicly - funded legal advice and representation, and in relation to the proportion of people who are financially eligible for such legal help.

This app provides a great example of how a particular technology channel — an app on a smart phone — was used to provide access to justice to a group of people who likely would not have been able to obtain help in any other manner.

While we have a moral and ethical responsibility to provide people with access to justice through pro bono work and other public programs, when running a law firm, the question of profitability can not be ignored.

The Society has a duty to act so as to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario.

The Ministry of Justice claimed that the measures which will remove injured people's access to free or affordable, independent legal representation would tackle a «rampant compensation culture», however these figures clearly show that claims are already on the decline.

We need new approaches in the quiver of access of justice services to address the vast majority of legal problems experienced by the public that are, from the point of view of the people experiencing them, serious and difficult to resolve and that have negative consequences if they are not dealt with.

The layer just below the water line probably for the most part represents people who should have access to the formal justice system.

It would give more people access to justice and make the process easier to navigate for them.

The United Nations Development Program maintains that «[i] n the absence of access to justice, people are unable to have their voice heard, exercise their rights, challenge discrimination or hold decision - makers accountable.

«We have to find creative new ways to connect people to the services they need and one way is to provide access justice on line,» she says.

People speak about access to justice as a reason, but it's incorrect to think that swarming the market with new lawyers would facilitate that.

In Ontario, the Law Society Act instructs that the Law Society has duties to (i) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, (ii) facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario and (iii) to protect the public interest.

Lord Justice Briggs» Civil Court Structure Review proposed the new online court and said it would improve access to justice and be simpler for people to use than the current court Justice Briggs» Civil Court Structure Review proposed the new online court and said it would improve access to justice and be simpler for people to use than the current court justice and be simpler for people to use than the current court system.

The reforms allow for people who have different skills and expertise to be brought together, people that typically aren't brought together, in order to meet customer needs, and in order to improve access to justice and to legal services.

Without personal injury lawyers, many people would not have access to the civil justice system.

This award is presented each year to an individual who has made significant contributions to further the rights, dignity, and access to justice for people with disabilities.

Sam Glover: As a civil rights lawyer I imagine you have a much clearer window into some of the ways that access to justice is harder for people with disabilities.

Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group, says: «The LASPO Act has denied tens of thousands of people access to justice and equality before the law.

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.

Her goal is to reform the entire legal system by helping as many people as possible to understand their general rights, encouraging individuals to be proactive about legal issues, increasing access to justice for low and middle income individuals, and providing education to the community so that re-entering individuals can have seamless and successful returns to the community.

We talked about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their legal problems solved.

This concept of access to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewaccess to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viejustice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

What this is all about though, or at least it should be all about, is that many people do not have access to justice, in large part because they do not have access to the legal services they need.

The debate over legal aid in the UK has been an all or nothing basis — either legal aid will get money, or it won't, and so people either will have access to justice or they won't.