Sentences with phrase «serious about justice»

But if I'm serious about justice — and if I'm serious about climate, morally serious — then I have to face these things.

Not exact matches

«Chief Justice Roberts could have serious misgivings about the unprecedented implications that Hobby Lobby's position could have in upturning centuries of corporate law practice,» Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel Constitutional Accountability Center says.

The series, while entertaining, also raises some serious questions about oppression, violence, materialism, entertainment, and justice.

The more serious we become about being salt and light in the world, the more devoted we will become to mission and justice, the more concerned for the least and the lost, the more stubborn about forgiving those who don't want our forgiveness, the more determined about exposing the works of darkness — and the more we will suffer.

In addition to his sense of the sacred, Camus's sense of the limits of human reason and justice is worthy of serious attention for its incipient natural law approach combined with a sober prudence about how far even the best human intentions can be trusted.

Every revolution can be opposed on the grounds that it will adversely affect someone's freedom, and arguments about how many will be affected how much and in what ways can function as a serious impediment to the struggle for justice.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg believes the «#MeToo» movement will have «staying power» and that she doesn't worry about a serious backlash.

More importantly, it would signal that the GOP is serious about being an opposition party offering realistic alternative ideas about transportation, the economy, schools, criminal justice and more.

Concerns have also been raised about the powers under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, where the police can stop people without reasonable suspicion when a senior offi cer believes there is a real risk of serious violence in an area.

Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard is an eight part series which traces the history of a dispute among neighbors that spiraled out of control and came to consume members of the New Rochelle Police Department, the City Court of New Rochelle and the Westchester County District Attorney's office and raised serious doubts about the justice system in the City of New Rochelle.

«Allowing the victims» relatives to speak in court is about the criminal justice system being prepared to listen and learn from those most directly affected by the most serious of all crimes.»

«To drain a swamp, you need an Army Corps of Engineers, experts schooled in service and serious purpose, not do - nothing, say - anything, neophyte opportunists who know a lot about how to bully and bluster, but not so much about truth, justice and fairness.»

But Sir Alan Beith, the chairman of the justice select committee, and the shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the disclosure raised serious questions about McDowell's independence.

Sir Menzies said: «A party which is serious about social justice can not fail to be serious about preventing crime and enforcing the rules.

The DCCC memo also makes reference to the fact that several Justice Department lawyers in the voting rights division had serious concerns about the redrawn map, a revelation first reported in a blockbuster story by the Post's own Dan Eggen.

April 2011 - European Court of Justice patenting case Stem cell scientists have raised serious concerns about the impact of a possible ban on patents for techniques using human embryonic stem cells.

All participants answered questions about stressful experiences throughout their lives, including educational difficulties, interpersonal conflicts, financial insecurity, legal or justice - system issues, serious health events, and psychological or physical trauma.

Given the national discourse at the moment, a film like Monster — adapted from a lauded young - adult novel about a black Harlem teenager navigating a biased justice system — seems like something that could demand serious attention.

The announcement last week that the US Departments of Justice and Education will end Obama - era protections for transgender students proves the Trump administration is serious about transferring control of education from the federal government to the states.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

It became apparent there was a lot more to say about this crime — its wide ripples, its possible antecedents, the people whose lives it dramatically changed and what we can learn from them about love, pain, forgiveness, and serious shortcomings in our mental health and criminal justice systems.

«We are very serious about ensuring there is justice for these poor animals and we feel that offering a reward is the best way of helping the authorities obtain valuable information,» said Monica Stevens, co-founder of JARR «These are not just random or accidental acts.

Opponents of the plant, including the City of Oxnard, environmental justice groups and clean energy advocates, want to see the CEC move ahead with its rejection so that stakeholders can get serious about developing alternatives.

To be at all serious about climate justice means being willing to engage in a real struggle that will inevitably demand real sacrifices.

Brook Riley, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe commented on the announcements: «It's frustrating to see the European Commission say it's serious about tackling climate change, but gloss over the inadequacy of its own measures to transform Europe's energy system.

Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Open Society Justice Initiative, Index on Censorship, English PEN, Global Witness and Human Rights Watch jointly intervened in the case to express serious concern about the costs of defending libel and privacy claims in the UK.

I don't think you do justice to the work of people like McIntyre and how their interaction with the hockey team and alarmist blogs such as Real Climate was instrumental in raising serious questions about the quality of the science underlying the dogma.

If we are serious about access to justice, then we must do a better job of providing public access to legal information and legal information services.

This paragraph in particular of Malcolm Mercer's article obscures the law society's great negligence in failing to try to solve the problem, «If we are serious about the access to justice gap, we should accept that no one solution will slay the access dragon.

My book looks at 11 cases of alleged wrongful conviction, all of which raise serious questions about the justice system.

If we are serious about the access to justice gap, we should accept that no one solution will slay the access dragon.

In November, the Delaware Criminal Justice Council issued its annual report on recidivism in Delaware, finding that «by the end of three years, about 76 percent of offenders in each cohort had been rearrested for a serious offense.»

Kimberley Murray, Ontario assistant Deputy attorney General, aboriginal Justice Division added that instead of simply providing interesting information about «sweat lodges and medicines,» lawyer education programs must focus on the more serious — and difficult − work of relationship building.

When it comes to the Justice System, however, there is in the report much more caution than in any other sector about serious rethinking of how to deliver services.

LAG would suggest that, if the government is serious about access to justice it needs to put back capacity into the system so that these people can get early advice on their legal problems.

Practitioner groups have expressed serious concerns about the sustainability and fairness of the proposals and their impact on access to justice.

The prosecution and acquittal of the man accused of Cindy Gladue's murder has highlighted serious concerns about our criminal justice system and its treatment of indigenous people, women and Read More

The first question one should ask potential clients is about how much justice they can afford, especially in light of the serious problems facing economically disadvantaged litigants as reported recently in a Toronto Star article («Legal Aid facing «troubling cuts»»):

If we are serious about efficiently and meaningfully encouraging justice and rehabilitation in our domestic courts, it is past time to engage in a mature discussion about the failures of our existing policies while being open to real change.

If we're serious about access to justice, then our focus should be on reducing all of the inherent inefficiencies in the litigation process — not to mention societal inequities generally — and not on producing more lawyers who can't even afford their own services.

When judges fail to recognize this fact and unreflectively use their visual common sense to trump, and thus exclude, the common sense of others, this raises serious concerns about the search for truth and justice in particular cases.»

«It's quite clear that there are some serious issues here about the representation, and it's a question for me of a lawyer being responsible not only to his or her client but also to the court and the system of justice, and the judge is saying here enough,» he says.

But in its November 2015 report to the CJC, the majority of the inquiry committee, including Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton, expressed «deep and serious concerns» about Girouard's credibility, and therefore integrity, throughout the process.

«Although this implies nothing about the nature of the object that was exchanged, we wish to express our deep and serious concerns about Justice Girouard's credibility during the inquiry and, consequently, about his integrity.

Past clients send their friends and family members to us knowing that we are serious about providing justice.

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In my last guest - blog post about my new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice, I advocated requiring military service as a punishment for able - bodied convicts without serious violent tendencies.

Nonetheless, when Best complained to the Canadian Judicial Council about Justice Shaughnessy's serious misconduct, the CJC didn't even investigate, saying that the judge's actions were not «conduct» under the CJC's mandate.

If we're truly serious about increasing access to justice, the solution won't come from incremental efforts (laudable as they are) like increasing mandatory pro bono requirements by a few hours.

It is about securing the justice our clients and their families rightfully deserve immediately following a serious accident, catastrophic injury, or devastating loss.