Sentences with phrase «really have access to justice»

I.e. you can't really have access to justice until people know what is available to them and what rights they actually have, which are often buried behind legal jargon or in statutes they have no easy access to.

Not exact matches

In testimony before the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee last week, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF] presented the rationale behind Connecticut conducting an Education Adequacy Cost Study in order to determine the level of resources that are really needed to ensure that every child has access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality education.

Sam Glover: Well, I suppose I've fallen into the trap that I often accuse other of, which is conflating access to justice with providing legal services to the poorest of the poor, which is really a foundational question, but it's really just one piece of the access to justice puzzle.

There's an adjustment that's going on and the state supreme court group is really into it and then the various access to justice commissions have done pretty amazing work so this is the second part of the story.

Sam, since today's conversation is about access to justice and potentially advocating for a civil right to counsel, we thought it would be interesting to kind of check the pulse of our listeners and see both how they feel about the concept of creating a civil right to counsel, and also about kind of what their commitment to access to justice and pro bono work is, and so we created a really simple two question survey in the show notes for today's podcast episodes.

This concept of access to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewaccess to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viejustice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

Without malice, too many of them (there are several heartwarming exceptions) see ABS as a way of being seen to be doing «something» about access to justice but without having to tamper with the real barrier and, well, if the low - cost small firm solicitors are badly harmed, well, they didn't really mean to do it and it wasn't their fault, and, well, that's progress isn't it?

We do have to realize that Access to Justice is a blanket term for what are really a series of vertical markets that are silo - ed by legal subject area, jurisdiction, and political will (to name a few).

If we can (1) ramp up the pace and (2) do this really well, the difference we would make to the access to justice crisis — especially if we also pay attention to the role of the non-lawyer «intermediaries «as Professor Friedland and others have emphasized — would be enormous.

As such, if you really want to improve public access to justice in Surrey, the solution is not to flood the Lower Mainland (a market in which law students already have a very difficult time finding articles - yes, even in Surrey) with junior lawyers but to build a new courthouse on the Surrey side of the river.

What really sets the CAT apart from most other Canadian courts and tribunals is the fact that it has no hearing rooms, no chambers, and no waiting room... It is a completely digital endeavour, cutting down on real - estate costs, and bringing access to justice to condo dwellers through their computers, tablets and smartphones.

In the situation where a youth really has stepped out of line and committed what potentially is a criminal act, lawyers need to be well aware that the Youth Criminal Justice Act gives them a whole host of tools and access to potential resources that are not necessarily available to somebody who's 18 or over.

David would seem to be arguing that there really is not a problem but if that were true then why was this matter of potential conflicts such a focus in the debates of the Committee for Justice Policy that led to the Access to Justice Act?.

John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the CRILF and one of the report's authors, explains, «It's really only in the last five or six years that efforts have been undertaken to collect actual empirical information about the courts and other dispute resolution processes,» adding that, «part of the whole access to justice inquiry has to involve the accessibility of different dispute resolution processes and their relative costs.»

«The real import of this decision — not to my client, who is obviously very disappointed — but to the profession is, we have got to get people access to justice, and we've got to do a better job, and so we really need to make this more accessible.»

I guess that part of me is like I really don't think that you have to think about access to justice as sort of nonprofit charity work.