Sentences with phrase «promoting access to justice»

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.

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.

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.

Claimants argue that referral sources provide firms with steady streams of work and income and provides claimants with a quick and simple way to instruct solicitors promoting access to justice.

Lord Justice Jackson's terms of reference in his review into the basis of costs of civil litigation featured (i) promoting access to justice at (ii) proportionate cost.

One role for academic law librarians in promoting access to justice is to provide training to p...

I've greatly appreciated and learned much from many of her articles, such as «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law,» «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» (with Jaime Heine), and «Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets.»

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.

In 2009 Mark O'Brien, Pro Bono Net's Executive Director, came to Seattle to urge Microsoft to get involved in promoting access to justice through technology.

Why teaching lawyers how to make great money delivering unbundled services plays such an important role in promoting access to justice

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

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 Dutch courts are also making progress in promoting access to justice through developments on collective redress.

The danger is that what could be a very powerful technology in promoting access to justice could otherwise develop in a piecemeal, unstructured and non-strategic way.

«Priorities include promoting access to justice, ensuring the viability of legal aid and delivering an effective court modernisation programme,» he said.

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

The notions of promoting access to justice and controlling costs in civil litigation have walked arm - in - arm down the red carpet and through the doors of Lord Justice Jackson's reforms which have been in force since 1 April 2013.

(7) Gillian K. Hadfield «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» International Review of Law and Economics (forthcoming); download copy available at: SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2333990.

-- «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law.»

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.

The legal aid system plays a crucial role in promoting access to justice at proportionate costs in key areas.

«The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law.»

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.»

Lord Jackson believes that BTE insurance is a beneficial product as an add - on to a household insurance policy and if his reforms relating to a choice of solicitor were implemented BTE insurance would have an important role in promoting access to justice.

I used to think that the answer was obviously that increased productivity should be encouraged because of the moral and policy obligation to promote access to justice.

It will grant 20 UTS Law students the opportunity to create intelligent web applications that promote access to justice and make tailored legal information more reachable.

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

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.

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 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.

Based on the above, the OPC view is that since search engines already engage in the indexing activity and are covered under PIPEDA, they should have the obligation to de-index and takedown «because the problems that need addressing arise from their own actions; and because it promotes access to justice.»

The case was brought by the Public Law Project, a national legal charity that promotes access to justice, on the basis that the residence test would, if implemented, violate fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

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 justice.

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 Jackson reforms of English commercial litigation came into force on 1 April 2013, and as part of that wholesale review of the funding of litigation in England and Wales, there has been widespread recognition that litigation funding promotes access to justice by enabling litigants to manage their exposure to costs.

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.

Julian Uebergang, Managing Director, Asia Pacific with Neota Logic, added, «Neota Logic is proud to collaborate with MLS and Not - for - profit Law to develop applications that perform important functions for not - for - profit organisations, particularly organisations that promote access to justice.»

Since joining PayPal in 2015, Louise has expanded and invigorated the company's legal pro bono program, which now promotes access to justice on a global scale in alignment with PayPal's vision and mission of serving the needs of communities worldwide.

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Our fundamental mission is to promote access to justice, and in litigation finance, as in so many other sectors, technology helps democratize that resource.

GOALI will promote access to justice by removing the economic and technological barriers to proprietary legal information in developing economies around the world.

[4] The growth in litigation involving self - represented litigants and the responsibility of courts to promote access to justice warrant reasonable flexibility by judges, consistent with the law and court rules, to ensure that all litigants are fairly heard.

Although litigation finance in theory promotes access to justice by providing capital to plaintiffs, in practice, it's departed from its David vs. Goliath roots and started to look more like Goliath vs. Goliath.

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.»

It is driven by five goals, namely (1) to encourage research and scientific development; (2) to promote access to justice through adapted software; (3) to decrease judiciary costs; (4) to improve the quality of legal open source software; and (5) to advocate for the interoperability of the judiciary through the use of open source standards.

His final point to me was that his objective was to promote access to justice.

The purpose of GOALI is to «provide free or very low cost online access to legal information and academic research to governments, universities and non-profit institutions in developing countries to promote access to justice and the rule of law.»

The NCCP is intended to modernize civil procedure, promote access to justice, and reduce costs and delays.

The modernization and expansion of legal services to better promote access to justice is an ongoing challenge.

Our Mission is to promote access to justice in BC by providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit organizations of limited means.