But many states offer meager financial support to their guardianship system, leaving some of the country's most
vulnerable citizens without a guardian and in a perpetual limbo.
Not exact matches
«It allows for the witnessing and notarization of wills using remote audio and video technology
without providing adequate safeguards to prevent fraud and exploitation of Florida's most
vulnerable citizens and to ensure the identity of the witnesses and the testator and the security and integrity of the electronic wills,» he says.
It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression
without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised
without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of
vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set
without regard to the reasonable expectations of
citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.
First, the lawyers of PIAC represent organizations whose membership serves our target constituencies before boards and tribunals where the industries delivering such services are regulated, These organizations include the Canada
Without Poverty (formerly NAPO), the
Vulnerable Energy Consumers Coalition, the Consumers Association of Canada, the Ontario Council of Senior
Citizens Organizations, National Pensioners and Senior
Citizens Federation, Option consommateurs, Union de Consommateurs, and Rural Dignity of Canada among others.