Sentences with phrase «promote access to justice for»

From 1993 the Family Court of Australia established an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awareness Committee that oversaw several significant initiatives designed to promote access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The University of Ottawa's Law Practice Program, in French the PPD, «Programme de pratique du droit,» was designed to «promote access to justice for Francophones» and as an alternative to traditional articling.

Professors Alain Roussy and Michelle Flaherty are currently conducting a study of the University of Ottawa LPP, which is delivered only in French and which has a mandate «to promote access to justice for francophones and other marginalized groups by training future lawyers to provide high quality legal services in French.»

Our purpose is to promote access to justice for all Ontarians, preserve and improve the civil justice system, and advocate for the rights of those who have suffered injury and losses as the result of wrongdoing by others, while at the same time advocating strongly for safety initiatives.

The DC Bar characterized Washington's LLLT program as «an attempt to regulate the provision of legal services by highly trained paraprofessionals while promoting access to justice for those who have legal needs but do not require all the skills of an attorney.»

The Symposium provided an opportunity for the legal community to celebrate and reflect on four decades of accomplishments by Ontario's community legal clinics in promoting access to justice for the most disadvantaged Ontarians.

A highly important factor in promoting access to justice for Indigenous people is a judiciary that is culturally competent, particularly in its understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, child - rearing practices and kinship and the central place that cultural identity and affiliation plays in the life of Indigenous people.

We will endeavour at all times to translate this into practices and policies within the Family Law Courts that are effective in promoting access to justice for Indigenous people.

Being Aboriginal and a Koori from the Sydney region, Stephen has a strong interest in working with Aboriginal families and a commitment to promoting access to justice for Aboriginal people.

Association of Lawyers for Children Association for children's lawyers that promotes access to justice for children and young people within the legal system

Not exact matches

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

[79] «The new sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations call for the international community to come together to promote the rule of law; support equal access to justice for all; reduce corruption; and develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions at all levels.»

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

16.3 promote the rule of law at the national and international levels, and ensure equal access to justice for all

Lawyers will now be able to advise their clients with greater certainty, and this will help reduce litigation costs and ultimately promote greater access to justice for meritorious claims.

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in the US.

It is essential for the public's faith in our rule of law to promote not just access to the courts, but also access to real justice.»

«It is essential for the public's faith in our rule of law to promote not just access to the courts, but also access to real justice,» Stern said in the press release.

It's good for the whole community and survival of the language and to promote access to justice in French,» she says.

Law schools should promote access - to - justice - friendly careers, suggests Sarah Glassmeyer, director of content development for the Center for Computer - Assisted Legal Instruction.

It is well known that Canadian lawyers have worked to promote access to justice through both legal aid and pro bono work for many years, and this has generally been conducted at a provincial level.

The Law Foundation of Ontario used to provide grants to Ontario's law school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice system.

Before launching the LSCP, Maryland developed an independent non-profit with its alumni called Civil Justice, Inc. to offer mentorship and promote access to justice, which turned into the Solo Practice Incubator for Justice in JanuarJustice, Inc. to offer mentorship and promote access to justice, which turned into the Solo Practice Incubator for Justice in Januarjustice, which turned into the Solo Practice Incubator for Justice in JanuarJustice in January 2011.

What's especially noteworthy about Free the Law, though, and what distinguishes it from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with free, public access to them, on the conviction that access to legal information promotes access to justice.

Sreerupa is interested in using technology for promoting access to justice, and in developing solutions to age old problems.

Established in 1992, Australia's federal class action regime was developed to promote the more efficient resolution of multiple claims sharing common issues, to increase access to justice for small claimants and to safeguard the interests of group members and respondents alike.

He explained that like many other states, «Oregon has been promoting pro bono service for at least a generation, but the access - to - justice gap keeps growing» as self - represented litigants top 80 percent for family law and landlord - tenant.

He believes in equal access to justice for all, the entitlement to a fair hearing and is dedicated to promoting the interests and welfare of immigrants and those seeking protection in the UK.

Earlier this month the Department of Justice Canada announced funding for projects that will help families deal with difficult issues related to divorce or separation with funding aimed at improving access to the family justice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or sepaJustice Canada announced funding for projects that will help families deal with difficult issues related to divorce or separation with funding aimed at improving access to the family justice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or sepajustice system and promoting compliance with family obligations related to divorce or separation.

In 2013, Justice Stephen Goudge was recognized as one of Canada's most respected appellate judges and an inspiration outside of the Ontario Court of Appeal for his activities aimed to promote access to jJustice Stephen Goudge was recognized as one of Canada's most respected appellate judges and an inspiration outside of the Ontario Court of Appeal for his activities aimed to promote access to justicejustice.

It calls for support for access to justice research in order to promote evidence - based policy choices.

Goal 16 is to promote «peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development», provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels».

You can see that with all other UN member states Canada committed to promote the rule of law at the national and international levels (a fairly general target — not too hard to achieve) and to ensure equal access to justice for all (much more concrete and challenging).

Our organization exists to promote a better understanding of the law for all and to support access to justice for those who for any reason, represent themselves in legal matters by providing coaching, appropriate encouragement, legal information, referrals or other resources to those people

Participants will be invited to design various tools to support online courts — for example, tools to help litigants structure their legal arguments, organise their documents, negotiate settlements without advisers, improve access to legal advice as well as systems that will promote open justice and even machine learning solutions that will help analyse all the data generated by the online courts.

All members of the legal profession, as part of our commitment to the rule of law, should be concerned about the manifest inadequacies of the legal aid system, and work for a better way of promoting access to justice.

The incentives for adopting ABS appears to primarily be for the purposes of attracting capital and promoting access to justice.

«But I think it has lowered the risk for companies that are engaged in the public interest and promoting public access to justice,» she adds.

The Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&rAccess to Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&Justice Commission similarly is charged with «promoting, facilitating and enhancing equal access to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&raccess to justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&justice with an emphasis on access to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable&raccess to the Illinois civil courts and administrative agencies for all people, particularly the poor and vulnerable».

Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low - income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.

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This bold and commendable initiative, tentatively titled «Standards of Excellence for Conduct,» is intended to advance the interests of accident victims, by promoting better service and access to justice.

[As an example of its dedication to legal technology,] IIT Chicago - Kent College of Law established the Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) to make justice more accessible to the public by promoting the use of the Internet in the teaching, practice, and public access to thAccess to Justice & Technology (CAJT) to make justice more accessible to the public by promoting the use of the Internet in the teaching, practice, and public access to tJustice & Technology (CAJT) to make justice more accessible to the public by promoting the use of the Internet in the teaching, practice, and public access to tjustice more accessible to the public by promoting the use of the Internet in the teaching, practice, and public access to thaccess to the law.

ALF's Mandate reads as follows: «The Association of Litigation Funders of England & Wales (ALF) is dedicated to promoting best practice in the Litigation Funding industry and campaigning to improve the uses and applications of Litigation Funding as an additional resource for Access to Justice and rational management of financial risk in making claims.

Even the legal services community who for years has called for only full service representation for all is now starting to promote unbundling as one of the major ways we can improve access to justice in our country.

Pro Bono Law Alberta (PBLA) is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote access to justice in Alberta by creating and promoting opportunities for lawyers to provide free legal services to persons with limited means.

Promote, for Council and members of the Society, awareness of gender equity issues in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice in Nova Scotia;

That the federal government earmark specific funds for civil legal aid in order to promote women's access to justice and safety, and ensure that women are not further economically disadvantaged after relationship breakdown by having to represent themselves in court proceedings.

Aside from the amount of time spent by counsel for the plaintiff, the matter appears to have moved forward efficiently and within the culture shift referenced by Justice Karakatsanis in [Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2014] 1 S.C.R. 87] as part of promoting timely and affordable access to the civil justice Justice Karakatsanis in [Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2014] 1 S.C.R. 87] as part of promoting timely and affordable access to the civil justice justice system.

The CALI folks have been involved, promoting their A2J (Access to Justice) platform for automating / scripting «interviews» to provide web - based document assembly.