Sentences with phrase «to promote access to justice»

Private pro bono legal advice clinics play a critical role in promoting access to justice.

She is also dedicated to promoting access to justice for injured members of the Vietnamese community.

The ancillary benefits — helping achieve the law society's stated aims to assist lawyers and promote access to justice outside urban centers, among others — are also clear.

, and committing to «taking all necessary steps to provide services that promote access to justice for all, including legal aid».

In 2009 Mark O'Brien, Pro Bono Net's Executive Director, came to Seattle to urge Microsoft to get involved in promoting access to justice through technology.

Although litigation finance in theory promotes access to justice by providing capital to plaintiffs, in practice, it's departed from its David vs. Goliath roots and started to look more like Goliath vs. Goliath.

The legal aid system plays a crucial role in promoting access to justice at proportionate costs in key areas.

The notions of promoting access to justice and controlling costs in civil litigation have walked arm - in - arm down the red carpet and through the doors of Lord Justice Jackson's reforms which have been in force since 1 April 2013.

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«Priorities include promoting access to justice, ensuring the viability of legal aid and delivering an effective court modernisation programme,» he said.

The Jackson reforms of English commercial litigation came into force on 1 April 2013, and as part of that wholesale review of the funding of litigation in England and Wales, there has been widespread recognition that litigation funding promotes access to justice by enabling litigants to manage their exposure to costs.

The DC Bar characterized Washington's LLLT program as «an attempt to regulate the provision of legal services by highly trained paraprofessionals while promoting access to justice for those who have legal needs but do not require all the skills of an attorney.»

What's especially noteworthy about Free the Law, though, and what distinguishes it from other preservation initiatives, is that it provides for the preservation of historical legal materials in connection with free, public access to them, on the conviction that access to legal information promotes access to justice.

And if Thomson Reuters was so interested in promoting access to justice why don't they give the general public free use of their case law database?

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The modernization and expansion of legal services to better promote access to justice is an ongoing challenge.

Claimants argue that referral sources provide firms with steady streams of work and income and provides claimants with a quick and simple way to instruct solicitors promoting access to justice.

n June 2017 I wrote an article for Policy Options about how I believed that while the existence of the immigration consultant profession in Canada promoted access to justice reforms were needed to strengthen the weeding out of some unethical behaviour.

The Dutch courts are also making progress in promoting access to justice through developments on collective redress.

The new Rule is intended to introduce a culture of compliance, because that is necessary to promote access to justice at proportionate costs.

A highly important factor in promoting access to justice for Indigenous people is a judiciary that is culturally competent, particularly in its understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, child - rearing practices and kinship and the central place that cultural identity and affiliation plays in the life of Indigenous people.

The Jackson reforms of English commercial litigation in 2013, which reviewed litigation funding in England and Wales, encouraged widespread recognition that litigation funding promotes access to justice by enabling litigants to manage their exposure to costs.

All members of the legal profession, as part of our commitment to the rule of law, should be concerned about the manifest inadequacies of the legal aid system, and work for a better way of promoting access to justice.

She is also active in the community, promoting access to justice throughout her 12 years of service on the Regional Appeals Committee (Southern Region) or Legal Aid Alberta.

A better one would be that the online context provides us greater opportunities to meet our broader professional responsibilities, including promoting access to justice (R 4.1 - 1), encouraging respect for the justice system (R 5.6), and exhibit the fundamental values of honour and integrity (R 2.1).

In the Clinic, students serve as the lead attorney, supervised by an experienced lawyer, representing leading conservation organizations and local community groups to promote access to justice on important environmental issues.

We will endeavour at all times to translate this into practices and policies within the Family Law Courts that are effective in promoting access to justice for Indigenous people.

I used to think that the answer was obviously that increased productivity should be encouraged because of the moral and policy obligation to promote access to justice.

I had the opportunity to speak to Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin yesterday and asked her about the role she envisioned for the bar in promoting access to justice.

He is also chairman of Beyond Reasonable Doubt, a non-profit that spreads legal awareness and promotes access to justice.

It is therefore timely to re-examine the feasibility of an independent, not - for - profit CLAF established by the legal profession, in the public interest, to promote access to justice.

Lord Jackson believes that BTE insurance is a beneficial product as an add - on to a household insurance policy and if his reforms relating to a choice of solicitor were implemented BTE insurance would have an important role in promoting access to justice.

It will grant 20 UTS Law students the opportunity to create intelligent web applications that promote access to justice and make tailored legal information more reachable.

-- «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law.»

It's good for the whole community and survival of the language and to promote access to justice in French,» she says.

It is well known that Canadian lawyers have worked to promote access to justice through both legal aid and pro bono work for many years, and this has generally been conducted at a provincial level.

Before launching the LSCP, Maryland developed an independent non-profit with its alumni called Civil Justice, Inc. to offer mentorship and promote access to justice, which turned into the Solo Practice Incubator for Justice in January 2011.

Based on the above, the OPC view is that since search engines already engage in the indexing activity and are covered under PIPEDA, they should have the obligation to de-index and takedown «because the problems that need addressing arise from their own actions; and because it promotes access to justice.»

While it is true that they have such a core responsibility, law school and private firm libraries, by fostering the rule of law, can also be leaders in promoting access to justice in their communities.»

Sreerupa is interested in using technology for promoting access to justice, and in developing solutions to age old problems.

The case was brought by the Public Law Project, a national legal charity that promotes access to justice, on the basis that the residence test would, if implemented, violate fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

Public education and outreach regarding the identification of legal issues and the available legal resources that can in fact be accessed should be the predominant priority of the bar and the Court in promoting access to justice.