Sentences with phrase «public legal education initiatives»

The Quebec Bar Association has shown itself to be quite ambitious and innovative in recent years when it comes to public legal education initiatives.

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Gov. Gray Davis of California and civil rights groups announced a deal last Thursday to drop legal challenges to a 1994 voter - approved initiative that sought to end public services, including education, to illegal immigrants.

I am looking forward to continuing our work with the parent plaintiffs in PEJ's teacher quality cases, and to launching new initiatives with the 50CAN network that will expand the scope of legal strategies improving public education for kids all across the country.

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.

Engage in numerous additional initiatives to create public education and awareness to challenge current attitudes and behaviours; update health and physical education curriculum for students; develop tools and best practices to support compassionate response from law enforcement authorities; strengthen supports provided by hospitals; create a pilot program to provide free independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors whose cases are proceeding toward a criminal trial, and many other broad - based initiatives.

We also engage in law reform, public legal education and community development initiatives.

The initiative features three stages: a report discussing emerging trends in how social media and web 2.0 technologies can be used to provide legal education and information; a series of webinars exploring different models to provide access online to public legal education and information; and a national conference on technology and public legal education.

Just a Click Away is an initiative to enhance how technology can be used to deliver legal education and information to the public in Canada.

Just A Click Away, a Canada - wide initiative on public legal education and information (PLEI) being coordinated by Courthouse Libraries BC, is organizing a two - day intensive conference in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 23 & 24, 2011.

This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.

Online information can be the basis for public legal education and information initiatives that are particularly important with the growing number of self - represented litigants in the courts.

Public legal education outreach and initiative will help residents of Kingston «avoid unnecessary and expensive legal interventions,» says Mills.

Clinics provide these services through a variety of methods, including traditional casework, summary advice, self help, public legal education, community development and law reform initiatives.

HALCO and other specialized clinics like it focus «both on front - line work, such as direct legal services for people, in addition to public legal education, law reform and community development initiatives,» Peck said.

As an early initiative, LawConnect will host the annual conference of the Public Legal Education Association of Canada (PLEAC), the national association of PLEI providers, here in Toronto in the fall of 2016.

The project of improving legal education, to deliver both public and private value, will require independent, yet coordinated, initiatives by all participants in the system.

The campaign, «Justice for All», is designed to increase the public's awareness and interest in justice issues and to connect them to local public legal education and access to justice initiatives.

In regards to policy development, there is a need for innovative public legal education and training initiatives for members of the public and online writers; and the development of more proportionate and relevant libel and privacy dispute resolution methods for small and individual publishers.

Drew Jackson discusses two initiatives: (1) the Clicklaw website, which provides legal information and education for the public from 24 contributor organizations; and (2) Law Matters, a program intended to enhance the collections of legal information in libraries across the province.

How do you bring the stakeholders (Court Administrators, AG's, Tax Authorities, Law Societies, Law Foundations, non-profit legal agencies, the profession and rich benefactors) to the table, without an initiative or proposal which outlines some common goals: reform and streamline, access and sustainability, shared responsibility and accountability (legal and fiscal) and better public education?