Sentences with phrase «public interest litigants»

Crowdfunding is not the only, nor necessarily a major solution to the access to justice crisis confronting public interest litigants in Canada.
This reformulation has significantly reduced the onus on prospective public interest litigants.
As such, Forest Ethics was entitled neither to standing as of right nor as a public interest litigant in bringing this judicial review application.
Ways in which individuals can fight for rights, are by contributing towards interventions on cases and initiating litigation as a public interest litigant on: Designated Countries of Origin, The Designated Foreign National Regime, for the Refugee Protection and Refugee Appeal, and Humanitarian and Compassionate Consideration and Pre-Removal Risk.
However, public interest litigants must do their research before engaging in any sort of crowdfunding campaigning, as there are options out there and they are not equal.
CARL itself is a public interest litigant.
This includes interventions on cases relevant to CARL's mandate, and initiating litigation with CARL as a public interest litigant.
Answering this question involves reviewing the public interest litigant's capacity to bring the claim, the existence of realistic and more efficient alternatives, and the potential impact of the proceedings on the rights of others (SWAUV at para 51).
It recognized that public interest litigants are crucial to realizing the Charter's democratic potential because they can address the systemic impacts of the law on the most vulnerable people in a way that isn't possible in individual litigation.
There is no automatic right to be a public interest litigant.
Those «others» include, by the way, a type of outfit that is not usually thought of as a «public interest litigant,» but which in a very real sense is exactly that: the federal Department of Justice and its provincial counterparts (which I will refer to as the DOJs).
When I get a submission that may reduce costs to zero I do not expect to get submissions and authorities that amount to «there is a certain je - ne - sais - quoi quality to the nature of a public interest litigant.
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