Sentences with phrase «victims having access to justice»

... The risk of false accusation's appears [to be] more important than victims having access to justice.»

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For an agonizingly long time, such victims of torture and gross injustice had no access to justice.

«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.

Where Berlinger and Sinofsky had to make their way through the wilds of Arkansas, forging their own relationships and figuring out on the fly who was bending the truth, Berg has the story (and the testifiers to same) already in place, plus she has Jackson's money and personal interest in the case to get her access to DNA experts, forensic pathologists and FBI profilers, all of whom establish very convincingly that the three men convicted for this crime were the victims a justice system more interested in expediency than truth.

However, Tim Spring, partner at Moore Blatch, said fixed costs would «only serve to limit access to justice for the victims of clinical errors and reward obstructive behaviour from defendants».

Giving women's organizations access to in - house lawyers would not only give abuse victims access to justice, says Track, it would also give social workers the ability to focus on what they're good at.

These amendments are being made without any consultation with the legal profession, or any awareness of the effect they will have on accident victims and their access to justice.

His special interests have been assistance to pro se litigants and assurance that low income domestic violence victims obtain equal access to justice.

In contrast to OTLA's doing nothing in twenty years to improve access to justice for injured Ontario auto accident victims (only a fool would argue that CFAs by themselves make OTLA lawyers the poster boys and girls for affordable, quality lawyering) the OTLA machine has almost over-night ramped up a constitutional challenge to this private - interest (big insurance) home - grown governmental attack on its profits.

While the Statutory Accident Benefit regime may give a right to an accident victim to challenge the wrongful denial of a benefit, where the cost of pursuing such a remedy is prohibitive, this raises significant issues as to access to justice that have yet to be addressed.

Law society efforts and access to justice committees have been in effect for several years now, but the victims of unaffordable legal services continue to grow in size and number.

It specifically recommend earmarking funds in the Canada social transfer for civil legal aid in order to ensure that women have access to family justice with a particular emphasis on victims of violence, indigenous women, and women with disabilities.

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission is pleased to announce that a $ 100,000 subgrant has been awarded to the Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services in Oshkosh to fund legal representation for domestic violence victims in that area.

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission has released its Legal Services for Abuse Victims Proposal urging the Wisconsin Legislature to ensure that abuse victims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding their Access to Justice Commission has released its Legal Services for Abuse Victims Proposal urging the Wisconsin Legislature to ensure that abuse victims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding theirVictims Proposal urging the Wisconsin Legislature to ensure that abuse victims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding theirvictims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding their access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding their lives.

Using quantitative data from Statistics Canada and statistical analysis, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute has rated each province and territory's criminal justice system based on five major objectives: public safety, support for victims, costs and resources, fairness and access to justice, and efficiency.

Several NGOs arriving in Haiti realized that the victims of these crimes did not have access to any form of justice and have since tried to build a system of mediation within the camps.

Victims are often isolated from family and other social support networks, prevented from having a job or working outside the home, and unable to access financial resources (see Hines et al., 2007; National Domestic Violence Hotline, 2015; Pence & Paymar, 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, 2008).