Sentences with phrase «promoting substantive equality»

A CCP focused on promoting substantive equality should not exclude such claims from the outset.

Based in Vancouver on Unceded Coast Salish Territories and focused on issues in BC, West Coast LEAF promotes substantive equality for women and girls in the courts, in the legislature and in schools.

Not exact matches

Since then, through its public education, direct advocacy, and law reform initiatives, CAMWL has endeavoured to help shape a legal profession that is responsive to our collective obligation to promote substantive justice and equality.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

Promoting (substantive) equality entails «the promotion of a society in which all are secure in the knowledge that they are recognized at law as human beings equally deserving of concern, respect and consideration.»

The purpose of the Code is therefore to promote «substantive equality» rather than identical treatment.

v. Promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system

These activities involve supporting lawyers in their efforts to meet obligations related to Regulatory Objective # 5: to «promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system».

Promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system

Perhaps if you (and the criticism would apply equally to Omar, since he and I have had this debate here before, as well as numerous other benchers and law society bureaucrats) actually addressed the substantive concerns — perhaps actually cited a source for the purported obligation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion generally — rather than dismissing the critics of this proposal for being inadequately woke, you might win over critics like me (and many of the people I've spoken with).