Sentences with phrase «raise access to justice issues»

The Quebec Bar Association has launched the Votre Justice (Your Justice) website to raise access to justice issues during the provincial election campaign.

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I would be interested to know whether any of the panelists raised the issue of access to justice.

The issue of access to justice was also raised in the context of CFAs; it was available to those whose solicitors were prepared to act under a CFA (backed up by adverse costs insurance).

The economic issues these types of requests raise is but one consideration: Access to justice — which has become a prominent issue in Ontario lately — also figures in the equation.

Yet, until now, there has been no identifiable, central platform in Canada where a wide range of justice stakeholders can exchange research and resources, raise questions and share ideas and concerns about access to justice issues.

The tragedy has highlighted the divisions in society and raised many questions including issues as to: access to justice and legal funding, as the tenants were unable to obtain legal aid for advice due to the legal aid cuts; the legal protection of tenants both in private and social housing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authorities.

This raises real access to justice issues and will tend to anonymise even further a service that consumers in a crisis are scared enough of.

While the Statutory Accident Benefit regime may give a right to an accident victim to challenge the wrongful denial of a benefit, where the cost of pursuing such a remedy is prohibitive, this raises significant issues as to access to justice that have yet to be addressed.

And with a federal election underway, she said, it would be playing a role in trying to raise the access - to - justice issues it has been focusing on during the campaign.

In my view, while this case does not deal substantively with the issue as to whether the requirement that one pay the costs of the transcription of the proceedings below results in a barrier to access to justice, it raises tangentially the question as to whether access to justice has become an illusory concept for most Canadians.

While the courts must struggle to weed out cases without merit, the numbers we discovered when we dug deeper into the CanLll database raise a serious access to justice issue.

But imposing this rule in cases where no money or valuables will pass through the lawyer's trust account may has implications for access to justice, lawyer efficiency and raises privacy issues that are not adequately addressed.

and to report within 2 years, making recommendations for changes with a view to improving access to civil justice in Scotland, promoting early resolution of disputes, making the best use of resources, and ensuring that cases are dealt with in ways which are proportionate to the value, importance and complexity of the issues raised.

The articles focus mainly on the effect of arbitration on consumer and class action litigation and raise important issues of fairness, transparency and access to justice.