Sentences with phrase «reduced access to justice»

And there is very much this sense, as one of the Court of Appeal judges in these cases put it, that reopening these cases would make our judicial system grind increasingly slowly, so the response to the fact that the judicial system is underfunded — needs more judges, needs more court time, needs more investment — is to say no to cases and to refuse to open cases rather than to fund the system more and the upshot of that of course, is a reduced access to justice.

The unprecedented drop of approximately 70 % in claims when fees were introduced clearly supports the Supreme Court's decision that these fees reduced access to justice.

Lord Justice Jackson, the main architect of recent civil litigation reforms, has responded to critics, who say the new regime has boosted costs and reduced access to justice.

First, that belief presumes that a shortage or absence of lawyers in small centers results in reduced access to justice in those locations.

Per an investigation by The Guardian, the net effect of regulatory reform in the U.K. has actually reduced access to justice, as part of the reforms included substantial cut backs in government funded legal aid programs.

An unfortunate side effect of reduced access to justice for accident victims is that insurers are less likely to be held to account for denying meritorious claims.

That is trying to isolate the Government from judicial review and reduce access to justice at the cost of individuals and businesses.»

However, although the survey suggests a hardening of views that budgeting increases costs, there has been a notable reduction in the number of litigators who believe that the post Jackson regime will reduce access to justice for clients and prospective clients (50 % in September 2014, down from 93 % in August 2013).

«We submit that legitimate budgetary concerns should not reduce access to justice for the poor, the weak and the vulnerable,» she said in testimony submitted to the budget committees of the state Legislature.

The threshold and the deductible combined can prove burdensome for victims of motor vehicle collisions and reduce their access to justice.

3) Unpaid articling opportunities are inherently discriminatory and reduce access to justice, so our regulator should prohibit them in the «noble» legal profession;

We agree that there are problems with the current costs regime but the proposals in the Jackson Report which the government has adopted will reduce access to justice for ordinary citizens to the advantage of insurers and business and we can not keep quiet about that.»

Reorienting ourselves toward preventative care will educate consumers and help reduce the access to justice gap.

This will dramatically reduce access to justice for the most deprived members of society, whilst savage cuts to the criminal legal aid budget can only increase the risk of miscarriages of justice.

The House of Commons transport committee had argued that raising the limit could reduce access to justice and encourage the growth of claims management companies.

I suggest that you review the materials OTLA has published (and will continue to publish) on the subject, where you will find that the issue is not whether ABS will reduce access to justice, but that there is no evidence suggesting that ABS has any positive effect on public access to justice.

Speaker Kristen Sonday, founder and Chief Operating officer of Paladin, devotes her professional life to reducing the access to justice gap.

«Procedural orders that increase the complexity and expense of litigation reduce access to justice in a very real way.»

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That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

[79] «The new sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations call for the international community to come together to promote the rule of law; support equal access to justice for all; reduce corruption; and develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions at all levels.»

«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.

Although resources have grown to support women and girls in the aftermath of violence (e.g., access to justice and emergency care), research suggests that actions to tackle gender inequity and other root causes of violence are needed to prevent all forms of abuse, and thereby reduce violence overall (Paper 4).

Newsom's top priorities are education and increasing affordable access to quality schools at all levels, economic development, creating jobs, reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and social justice.

LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services to secure essential needs like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights like equal access to justice.

Large advocacy groups with access to considerable resources and large followings tell others that we should be asking people to reduce — rather than end — their exploitation, diluting our collective vegan message of social justice and undermining the ethical argument.

While acknowledging that contingency fees are needed to facilitate access to justice, the Court clarified that policy goal of reducing barriers to legal services is but one factor to consider, and that the policy of maintaining the integrity of the profession is a primary concern with deep roots.

Alan Shanoff has argued that real access to justice means reducing the roles that lawyers play in the courts.

There is palpable potential for such apps to help reduce some of the financial, psychological, informational and physical barriers that many people face in accessing justice.

Lawyers will now be able to advise their clients with greater certainty, and this will help reduce litigation costs and ultimately promote greater access to justice for meritorious claims.

It knows as both the legal aid funder of clinical negligence litigation and as the defendant compensator (as it is in the vast majority of clinical negligence cases) that access to justice is extremely costly to it in costs and damages, and that by attacking access to justice its outlay in both regards will be reduced substantially.

In Rhode Island, the president of the bar association, Robert Weisberger, opined that the WSBA's claims that LLLTs would reduce UPL and improve access to justice required statistical analysis.

Because two of the three legal aid sources are predominately supported by lawyers, decision makers should consider the potential impact on access to justice if lawyers were to dramatically reduce their time / financial support of pro bono services and legal aid programs, which is likely as competition increases and the social contract under which lawyers and society have operated Vis a Vis the state sponsored monopoly continues to unwind.

Professor Jasminka Kalajdzic of the University of Windsor's law school in Ontario researched ABSs in the UK and Australia and found no evidence that ABSs reduced legal fees or increased access to justice.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

Mr. Clark has on many occasions worked for reduced rates where the client's financial means and access to justice are real issues.

These policies or practices were not designed to reduce the environmental impact of hearings, but were designed to ensure meaningful access to justice.

Let's stipulate that, based on current views on access to justice, it's not because Canadian lawyer are so much more able (than their Australian counterparts) as to reduce the number of bodies required.

Allocations include: nearly $ 4.8 million in additional annual funding for legal aid, with a focus on indigenous and family law services; $ 3.8 million per year to fund expansion of Parents Legal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice services.

Such discussions will help me as a member of the judiciary and other judges consider if electronic technology can increase access to justice by reducing legal fees.

The phrase «access to justice» — or more accurately, reduced, diminished or lack of access to justice — was often quoted in press releases, consultation responses, and lobby group submissions, prior to LASPO coming into force.

«Appropriate legal aid funding is a significant measure, among others, that will reduce the number of people representing themselves and provide greater access to justice for families and First Nations in the province.

Our experience so far of lay appointments is of: (a) fiscal measures (increasing fees and reducing legal aid) which have a negative impact on access to justice; and (b) unseemly spats with the Lord Chief Justice about law reform and the freedom of thejustice; and (b) unseemly spats with the Lord Chief Justice about law reform and the freedom of theJustice about law reform and the freedom of the press.

The main challenges are: 1) working your way through an ad - hoc process that rests on a yes / no decision of a Chief Justice; 2) juggling a mix of standards and unique requirements that reduce the possible uses of the whole to the strictest of terms imposed by one; and 3) the court actually finding a way to provide or facilitate access to both current and historical decisions in a usable format.

The proposed reforms will dramatically restrict people's access to justice and are unlikely to reduce premiums for motorists.

If the time is not reduced, the access to justice problem will roll benightedly on.

Unbundled legal services, also called limited - scope representation, has gained traction in recent years as a way to increase access to justice and reduce the cost of legal services.

As a matter of access to justice, it is in keeping with the best traditions of the legal profession to provide services pro bono and to reduce or waive a fee when there is hardship or poverty or the client or prospective client would otherwise be deprived of adequate legal advice or representation.

Such a modestly - stated aspiration of the Attlee government seems the heights of heady idealism compared to our reduced commitment to access to justice in a time of austerity.

The Labour Government reduced the scope of legal aid for personal injury claims and reformed the system with the Access to Justice Act 1999.

It may seem an odd proposition that the Woolf reforms, with their legitimate aims of improving access to justice and reducing the cost of civil litigation, have, 10 years on, failed a constituency many would argue least worthy of assistance in the first place.