Sentences with phrase «traditional legal system»

Prof. Singer joined the University of Alabama Law School in 1971 and in 1975 received the SJD from Harvard, with an anthropological / legal dissertation on traditional legal systems in Ethiopia.

I recently heard a respected lawyer comment that if the legal profession allows disputes to be resolved outside of traditional legal systems, then we can not ensure that proper attention will be paid to basic legal principles of fairness, justice and the rule of law.

I just don't feel you can have a quasi-legal system operating alongside our own historic and traditional legal system, particularly one which discriminates against women and is causing many women real suffering.

Traditional legal systems, she argues, are not keeping pace.

Usually, they have no choice but to try the traditional legal system; finding an attorney they aren't sure they can trust, hiring them for a hefty fee and fretting through the entire process.

The traditional legal system is adversarial, pitting two people against each other.

The VICP is an alternative for people who have been injured, but do not wish to go through the traditional legal system or do not have a case for negligence.

As we know, the traditional legal system is broken.

Mediation clients are more satisfied and less frazzled than those who choose the traditional legal system to handle conflict situations.

That neutrality can create a sense of balance and fair play for some clients who worry that the traditional legal system will only deepen the conflict and further damage their relationship — while running up large legal bills.

This ideal is obviously very different from the traditional legal system, which seeks an end or termination of a significant interaction at divorce: a division, distribution, or allocation of the things acquired during marriage — an emancipatory model — and with its «ending,» the permission for a «new life» for the participants and the withdrawal of active legal interference in their relationship.»

In addition, mediation was viewed as more empowering and more likely to result in better adjustment of adults and children to the divorce than was likely to occur in the traditional legal system.

As a founder of our local collaborative practice group and a matrimonial attorney since the early 1980's, I regard collaborative practice as the answer to my dreams of a better way for handling matrimonial cases, and also a tacit acknowledgement that our traditional legal system has left much to be desired in the way of accommodating the real world of emotions and personal needs of divorcing people.