Sentences with phrase «to enhance access to justice»

It can also enhance access to justice for the public.

Together, our law student volunteers serve communities from coast to coast, working to increase and enhance access to justice by offering high quality, professional legal assistance.

ABS was first proposed as a means of enhancing access to justice.

The roadmap for change includes the establishment of national and local implementation mechanisms to put in place enhanced access to justice services that meet the needs of local and regional populations.

We should not lose sight of the fact that the promise of arbitration to enhance access to justice remains.

The firm views this as a project designed to enhance access to justice by those unable to afford full legal representation.

The Clicklaw website tells us: «Clicklaw is... aimed at enhancing access to justice in British Columbia.

Some of the steps being taken or considered to enhance access to justice through Manitoba Courts include:

In a move aimed at enhancing access to justice, the Legal Services Corporation announced today that it is partnering with Microsoft Corporation and Pro Bono Net to develop state legal portals to direct individuals with civil legal needs to the most appropriate forms of assistance.

The Principles were developed to ensure technology enhances access to justice for everyone in Washington State.

This is the question that I was asking myself as I participated a recent workshop on enhancing access to justice in the area of family law, coordinated by the Manitoba Law Foundation and facilitated by John Paul Boyd.

There are many roads to enhancing access to justice across Canada and I have been fortunate to travel several of these via involvement with Manitoba organizations like Legal Aid Manitoba, Community Legal Education Association, Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre and Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg.

After learning more, I successfully ran for the Group Legal Services Association (GLSA) Board based on the belief that technology would enable lawyers to practice more efficiently and in turn enhance access to justice.

One of the justifications for a local final appellate court was that it would enhance access to justice as litigants would not have to bear the costs of travel to the United Kingdom.

The Centre enhances access to justice in three ways: first, by providing legal advice and representation to women who have no other means of getting legal help; second, by creating an opportunity for law students to learn how to deliver community - based legal services and carry forward a commitment to providing access to justice and family law services in their legal careers; third, by identifying cases that have the potential to advance women's legal rights at a systemic level.

But that is not enhancing access to justice.

What I detected at the Policy Day was a general feeling among Ontario lawyers (certainly in the break out group I attended), that any rule change that results in an increase in the number of settlements enhances access to justice and enhances the reputation of the administration of justice.

The web has given law professors in key courses such as Legal Research and Writing and Civil Procedure a golden opportunity to enhance access to justice while fostering tech - minded lawyers.

What if law reform commissions made enhancing access to justice a criterion in their deliberations and recommendations for changes to our laws?

The theme for Forum 2012, «Revitalizing Courts with Enhanced Technology and Thought - Provoking Reforms: The Modernization Challenge», is designed to challenge attendees with leading edge sessions, including Enhancing Access to Justice Using Technology and Going Beyond Technology: Revisiting Fundamental Assumptions About Traditional Litigation.

Sam suggested (and I agree) that opening the market to providers outside the legal profession would substantially enhance access to justice, probably at a (short - term) cost in the range of quality in legal services.

Ultimately, I am not sure whether these decisions will assist in enhancing access to justice for family law litigants; but, I am hopeful that as a consequence, at least some will pause to reflect for a moment or two on the problems that continue to arise as demand for judicial and court resources increasingly exceeds supply.

In 2008, the Law Society of BC Unbundling of Legal Services Task Force found that unbundling could be a valuable tool for enhancing access to justice by allowing people to retain lawyers for discrete services, and in accordance with their financial means.

The projects I have participated in as a supervising lawyer have without exception been well organized and effective both to develop and strengthen students» legal skills and to enhance access to justice through the enthusiastic effort of the student volunteers.

In what should have been a good news story, LAO received new funding to enhance access to justice in recent years.

1) Bringing the justice sector stakeholders together, including deputy ministers, lawyers, senior court administrators, judges and representatives of the public, to create an atmosphere favourable to technological innovation and excellence in our court systems to enhance access to justice.

And that June 2017 interim report states (page 3, para. 38): ``... ABSs nevertheless have «real potential» to enhance access to justice.»

A not - for - profit campaign organisation, APIL's 3,800 member lawyers are dedicated to changing the law, protecting and enhancing access to justice, & improving services provided for victims of personal injury.

These results seem discouraging, particularly for those of us working to build supports and establish resources that enhance access to justice for various communities.

These developments illustrate a fundamental issue that most common law jurisdictions will need to address as they turn, increasingly, to consensual dispute resolution («CDR») processes like mediation and JDR in an effort to enhance access to justice in an environment of fiscal restraint.

bilinsky (twitter hash tag #CFCT) on the theme: «How to drive change in order to enhance access to justice.»

This change in attitude has exciting prospects for practitioners and litigants in enhancing access to justice, and is particularly suited to facilitating competition law private actions.

The support of a third - party litigation funder levels the litigation «playing field» in both instances and enhances access to justice.

The quest to improve the dispute resolution process and to enhance access to justice must be an ongoing one.

I spoke on active adjudication as a tool to enhance access to justice.

It combines CCLA's mandate to promote fundamental freedoms and PBLO's mandate to enhance access to justice.

Although we often refer to restructuring legal services and increasing funding for legal aid as means for enhancing access to justice, if we can not properly fund the existing system we put unnecessary pressures our justice system.

Over the last few years, programs that deliver legal assistance to the poor and that enhance access to justice have been hard hit by IOLTA shortfalls and slashed budgets.

Several studies on using technology to enhance access to justice have called for the creation of statewide legal portals, most notably the LSC's December 2013 Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice.

The ultimate goal for the platform, Lai said, is to create a portal that connects the broad ecosystem of legal support organizations across the state, in order to expand and enhance access to justice.

Working with community media and larger social service groups is another way to enhance access to justice.

Over the last year or so, there have been a number of developments that suggest the beginning of a new era for ODR and an increasing recognition that ODR can be an important vehicle for enhancing access to justice.

Whenever there is a conversation about using technology to enhance access to justice for the poor, there is sure to be talk of A2J Author.

The idea of using technology to enhance access to justice is nothing new.

Three of the videos discuss the lawyer's role in enhancing access to justice.

«The goal is to create a modern, relevant and responsive commission that will bring forward recommendations to improve the administration of Ontario's justice system and enhance access to justice.»