The problem, they say, is that the courts are failing to use technology to open up the justice system and
provide meaningful access to justice to the extent possible in the internet age:
How will the legal profession meet the challenge of
providing meaningful access to justice for ordinary and disadvantaged Canadians?
Not exact matches
Until our
justice system is color - blind and able
to treat immigrants equally under law, we must end the cycle of incarceration that defaults
to locking immigrants behind bars rather than
providing meaningful access to our courts.»
Open data could
provide a critical next step toward the culture - shift that is needed for us
to realize
meaningful and lasting improvements in
access to justice.
The current federal election campaign
provides a key opportunity for lawyers
to shift the discourse and effect
meaningful change towards greater
access to legal and
justice services.
As a result, the attention being focussed on the need
to address the obvious and growing imperative
to provide more effective and
meaningful access to justice in the last few years has been unprecedented.
Meaningful access to justice requires more than just
providing women and children with
access to any lawyer, or any judge.
Each year, the Legal Foundation of Washington Board of Trustees presents the Charles A. Goldmark Distinguished Service Award
to an outstanding individual or organization that has assisted in
providing deep and
meaningful access to the
justice system.
However, the words of support for creativity in achieving
meaningful access to justice should
provide some comfort for tribunals and adjudicators looking
to design more efficient processes that respect procedural fairness principles.
Meaningful access to justice is required
to provide assistance
to individual women and
to continue
to develop family law legal principles which reflect women's legal rights
to substantive equality.
Their efforts
to serve the public by
providing an accessible, fair, efficient and innovative forum for
justice also include several notable initiatives with direct public impact: In addition
to hosting the second - ever Twitter Town Hall, the Court is also taking greater efforts
to improve
meaningful access to justice for self - represented litigants (SRLs), and has recently released Guidelines for Using a Support Person in Provincial Court.