Sentences with phrase «provide access to justice»

A matter of particular concern is the limited ability of funding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS) to provide access to justice for Indigenous women through legal representation and family violence services.

• provide access to justice for those who can not properly resource their litigation; • enable corporate clients to more effectively manage cost and risk; • permit lawyers to take on cases they might not otherwise be able to accept; and • generate more efficient and reliable revenue sources for law firms.

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.

«We're all there to provide access to justice.

To provide access to justice (and not just access to the justice system), it is essential for lawyers, judges and immigration officers to take professional training in how to recognize and respond to domestic violence, and in the tactics and dynamics of coercive control.

We believe that our lawyers have a responsibility to provide access to justice to those who can not afford it.

«Different incentives are at work here, whether you're trying to provide access to justice, where an individual trying to advance their case is not going to get hit with extremely onerous costs for advancing what they think is a legitimate case,» says Macek.

In her presentation, «Law Students + Technology = Closing the Justice Gap,» Kaufman discussed ways in which law students are moving beyond traditional curriculum paradigms, learning «lawyering skills of the future,» and how those skills can help the next generation of lawyers and legal organizations provide access to justice for underserved groups and individuals.

Our mandate is to provide access to justice for low income Ontarians.

Litigation funding can provide access to justice for the economically disadvantaged.

Being able to provide access to justice is core to what we do at Neota Logic.

The Courts view litigation funding as a means to level the playing field and provide access to justice, and they have set out the parameters within which the Courts would expect third party funding to function.

In the alternative, if CN Rail made an error then proceeding as a class action «would provide access to justice and judicial economy for a mass mistake in an efficient and manageable way.

It held that a litigation funding agreement did not violate the rule against champerty and maintenance and indeed helped to provide access to justice to the plaintiff.

Can computing technologies provide access to justice, provide legal aid more effectively, or make government and the law more open?

Based on the Advocate General's approach, it would have been possible to give some teeth to the requirement to provide access to justice.

The oath's vagueness avoids licensees having a duty to provide access to justice and legal services to «anyone» or «everyone» who seeks their service and may not be able to afford such service.

2) The joint failure of government and the legal profession to provide access to justice in Ontario (ie affordable legal services for the public and equitable access to the profession for qualified licensees) is reason enough to make the LPP permanent;

1) For a profession whose raison d'être is to provide access to justice by meeting the public's legal needs, the fact that the status quo has left and continues to leave significant legal needs unmet in Ontario is another (perhaps the most important) driver of the need for change;

A group led by David Wiseman and Suzanne Bouclin at the University of Ottawa proposed that the profession (i.e. 44,000 lawyers) pay and provide access to justice articles, not place the financial burden on students http://www.lsuc.on.ca/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2147487551

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».

The «prove it first» approach, presupposes that the current arrangement is already the very best way to provide legal services and the very best way to provide access to justice.

Some advocacy groups in the U.S. have promoted the idea of letting non-lawyers invest equity in law firms as a way to provide access to justice, enable innovation in the legal marketplace, and expand legal services.

An injection of federal funding in civil legal aid can be one source for the expansion of the role of law school clinics, who can in turn provide the access to justice needed by Canadians.

That some individual class members may have the financial means and that class members do not confront any social barriers and would not be intimidated in taking on Thomson, does not mean that a class action is unnecessary to provide access to justice.

Salter believes that the model of online tribunals and the Internet to provide access to justice and legal information will be a deepening trend.

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.

Linkilaw helps all pre Series - B startups with their legal needs and was built out of the admirable desire to better provide access to justice.

Others, likely in larger numbers, perceive this will increase their costs and decrease their ability to provide access to justice.

«I am clear that we need to focus our resources on protecting the public, punishing offenders and providing access to justice - in a way that is both intelligent and transparent,» Mr Clarke said.

have taken at least one course or volunteer activity that involves experiential learning providing access to justice.

In Briggs LJ's estimation, according to his Interim Report, the OC «offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources».

Providing access to justice to people who need legal advice can only increase with providing incentives for said people.

This does not, of course, provide complete access to justice, but it provides some access to justice, and additional arguments are also to be made that limited legal work has incidental effects that improve clients» overall legal capacity, extending the benefit received beyond the brief services provided.

Across the country lawyers find the time to participate in interesting and important pro bono projects that give back to their communities and aid in providing access to justice for those who might not otherwise be able to afford legal counsel.

It is clear that in Scotland at present there are significant problems in providing Access to Justice for personal injury claimants.

Another thing that we do is give our students an education in access to justice — we help them to understand the difficulties in providing access to justice, and how lawyers fit into that picture.

The Centre provides access to justice through student training, through looking at the culture of legal services and how doing good fits into it.

The folks at Axess Law are providing access to justice.

In addition to being litigators, mediators and advisors to individuals, organizations and business, Pink Larkin launched a full - time pro bono practice focused on systemic litigation that presents law reform possibilities for the poor — a first - in - Canada approach to actively providing access to justice.

Furthermore, public financial investment in providing access to justice must be considered within the context of the social value of ensuring an effective accessible system.

ELAP provides access to justice through free civil legal aid to low - income residents of East and Northeast King County (Washington) and domestic violence legal aid throughout King County.

Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida is a nonprofit law firm that provides access to justice for low - income people.

«In my view it offers the best available prospect of providing access to justice for people and small businesses of ordinary financial resources,» wrote Lord Justice Briggs.

By 2020, all graduating law students have taken at least one course or volunteer activity that involves experiential learning providing access to justice.

In theory, contingent fee pricing is an elegant way of providing access to justice at a fair and reasonable price.

Crucially, funding provides access to justice for those who might not otherwise be able to meet the costs of a claim.

Alissa is passionate about giving back to the community and is actively involved in providing access to justice to low - income Montanans.

We believe this is an essential and valuable part of our legal system, providing access to justice for everyone, no matter what their income or background might be.

The Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit agency that provides access to justice through free civil legal aid to low - income residents of East King County Washington and to low - income survivors of domestic violence throughout King County.