Sentences with phrase «substantive justice and equality»

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.

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v. Promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system

These activities involve supporting lawyers in their efforts to meet obligations related to Regulatory Objective # 5: to «promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system».

Rather than treating everyone the same, substantive equality is an approach that recognizes and celebrates differences and ensures that historically disadvantaged people can actively participate in society and access justice.

Promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system

Even in the context of the criminal justice system, legal aid and funding tied to s. 15 of the Charter will often be inadequate to advance substantive equality claims — particularly when the litigation targets systemic injustices.

Meaningful access to justice is required to provide assistance to individual women and to continue to develop family law legal principles which reflect women's legal rights to substantive equality.

Thus, it is accepted that for justice to be served there must be an element of substantive equality, and that to rely on formal equality is to deny justice.18 As Professor Peter Bailey has pointed out, «adopting the principle of substantive equality leads to difficult value judgements and distinctions, but in the interests of justice and human rights, there is no escape from this course.»

There is no dispute by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner that the test proposed by the government is consistent with a substantive approach to equality.

There are also a number of relevant differences between native title and ordinary forms of title which the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner has previously argued meet the test of being «reasonable, objective and proportionate» and accordingly mandate appropriately different treatment to achieve substantive equality.