Sentences with phrase «to ensure access to justice»
Public funding should be confirmed as necessary to ensure access to justice for low - income people.
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However, the telephone is still an important part of the toolkit for tribunals in ensuring access to justice.
A measure to help ensure access to justice and due process for those charged with civil immigration violations.
Once its advantages, such as ensuring access to justice, are recognised it is expected to become more widespread.
We are committed to ensuring access to justice for everyone in court without a lawyer.
Simply affirming that lawyers will always have critical roles in ensuring access to justice isn't enough, particularly when so many people can't get the legal help they need today.
The case, launched in April 2017, alleges that BC has a constitutional responsibility under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ensure access to the justice system for women who are fleeing violent relationships or facing ongoing abuse from ex-spouses.
At the philosophical level, perhaps the most persuasive argument for the importance of ensuring access to justice was put succinctly by the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, Beverly McLachlin, who said: «The finest justice system in the world is a failure if people can not use it.»
But, where there isn't one, and there are many areas where there isn't, we have no way to ensure access to justice because it's entirely up to the funder to decide whether they feel like funding that particular area.
While we all know that this increase is not enough to close the justice gap, it is a much needed step towards ensuring access to justice for low - income Washingtonians.
It is estimated that all the programs and resources devoted to ensuring access to justice address only 20 percent of the civil legal needs of low - income people in the United States.
Six months ago we might have expected little from the review, a Government with a working majority seeking to cut costs with Brexit dominating the scenery would not find striving to ensure access to justice at the top of the list of priorities.
The California Bar Foundation is the center of philanthropy for California's lawyers, a major force in diversity efforts for the bar, and a leader in ensuring access to justice for all Californians.
The policy reason for the so - called «American Rule» is to help ensure access to justice by eliminating the fear of litigation costs that may deter people from pursuing their days in court.
Laurel strives to ensure access to justice by providing free «civil» legal services to low income individuals and families.
Brian Kabateck is a Los Angeles trial lawyer and a preeminent leader in the fight to ensure access to the justice system.
The Symposium brought together clinic representatives and members of the broader legal and social justice communities to review clinics» past achievements and current challenges, and to discuss recent policy reports with respect to the role of community legal clinics in ensuring access to justice for all Ontarians.
The Law Foundation seeks to ensure access to justice through its program objectives which are:
«We must take action to protect victims of childhood sexual abuse and ensure access to justice for survivors,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) told the Daily News.
The mission of the Law Society is to serve its members and the public by sustaining an independent bar which upholds the rule of law and ensures access to justice.
Government: The mission of the Bellingham Municipal Court is to administer the operations of the judicial branch of City government in a neutral and effective manner and ensure access to justice for all citizens.
There is increasing recognition that the system — and not just its individual participants — shares the responsibility of encouraging and ensuring access to justice.
For this reason, and to ensure access to justice for anyone with an injury claim, Duncan Law Firm operates on a contingency fee basis.
The legal profession, with its mandate to ensure access to justice, is getting the side eye from everyone.
Alternative investors or commercial operators need to be encouraged to come into this market to allow these lawyers to compete on equal terms with larger firms which have benefited from external capital investment, and to ensure access to justice is available to all.
PLP's claim that there was insufficient consultation and reasoned justification for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to take a different path from that recommended by Jackson, and that the proposal breaches common law and international law requirements to ensure access to justice.
Again, why is judicial independence sufficient to warrant judicial activism while general concerns with respect to ensuring access to justice is not?
Cuts to legal aid have had a devastating impact on vulnerable individuals and although pro bono should never be a substitute for legal aid, law students have an increasingly important role to play in the provision of legal advice and public legal education to ensure access to justice.
«The Bar Council is committed to ensuring access to justice for all and we will continue to play our part in ensuring defendants and their families have the information they need to understand their rights and options.
The law societies are not, I don't think, mandated to ensure access to justice; certainly, they have neither the funding nor the authority with which to accomplish that.
Myers opened his decision with a quotation from the Hryniak ruling: «Ensuring access to justice is the greatest challenge to the rule of law in Canada today.
In his address, Mr. Moskowitz stressed the need for increased funding to protect the critical role civil legal aid plays in ensuring access to justice.
The Law Society should continue to engage with the MoJ to ensure access to justice is maintained, and the diversity of the supplier base.
New data released today and a companion website rank the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on the degree to which they use best practices for ensuring access to justice.
In the debate a wide variety of public interests were discussed including (1) the public interest in properly training lawyers; (2) the public interest in ensuring access to justice and (3) the public interest in ensuring that students who have invested in a legal education get access to practice.
Prioritise pro bono projects in the region that support the Government's Pacific Law and Justice Framework — a framework that guides Australia's assistance to the Pacific Law and Justice Sector with a view to promoting regional security, attracting foreign investment, and ensuring access to justice.
If you are interested in contributing to one of the largest legal aid endowments in the country, please considering joining the Justice Society, a planned giving program for those committed to ensuring access to justice in Washington in perpetuity.
We commit to collective action, supporting other self - represented litigants to ensure access to justice for all.
«I shall seek to ensure access to justice and access to legal services.»
Unlike the oath reading: «I shall seek to ensure access to justice and access to legal services to the best of my abilities to ensure everyone is equal before and under the law.»
The report, Ensuring Access to Justice in England and Wales, compiled by an independent working group on access to justice in environmental matters, looked at whether current law and practice prevent individuals and groups from achieving access to justice in environmental matters.
Where increases are contemplated, fee waivers should also be considered so as to ensure access to justice.