Thus crises like these often reflect
systemic issues of justice and liberation.
Not exact matches
Debby Irving brings to racial
justice the perspective
of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a
systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.
The proposals were part
of a larger call for reform
of «
systemic issues» in criminal
justice, human rights and civil
justice.
She is driven by
issues of social
justice and is committed to creating
systemic changes that prepare students for college and career readiness.
Jitu, who leads the national Journey for
Justice Alliance, provided a searing history
of the
systemic lack
of educational opportunities afforded to students
of color and, consequently, why communities must take control
of the vital
issues affecting their schools.
New modules
of education were added to the OCJ regional programs, such as a session organized by
Justice Rebecca Shamai on
systemic racism and sessions that focused on child protection
issues.
Last week, the United States Department
of Justice issued a consent decree against the Law School Admission Council, the non-profit group that administers the test, accusing it
of «widespread and
systemic discrimination» and contravening the Americans with Disabilities Act.
A social lab / developmental evaluation approach may be the most effective way to pilot new ideas and new procedures, but I suggest that it may not be suitable to addressing the more fundamental
systemic issues that underpin family
justice processes, assuming
of course that those
issues need to be addressed at all.
In his decision in Fulawka v. Bank
of Nova Scotia, 2010 ONSC 1148, Mr.
Justice George Strathy
of the Superior Court
of Justice came to the opposite conclusion from that
of his counterpart in the CIBC case, holding that
systemic issues relating to the bank's conduct made the class action a preferable procedure to that
of individual claims by affected employees.
Systemic substandard lawyering in the Ontario personal injury context (in such a highly profitable area
of law) is an access to
justice issue.
Access to
justice is a complicated
issue with multiple
systemic factors including poverty, racial profiling, lack
of basic legal and practical education, inadequate social services, inadequate government funding, lawyers not wanting to work for little money, etc..