Sentences with phrase «want from our justice system»

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The criminal justice system is still «distant from what most reasonable people want», Tony Blair said today.

He said he has backers from a cross section of the criminal justice system, «as well as citizens who want politics out of the DA's office and law enforcement.»

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

And often the last thing you want to think about is grappling with the legal system in an effort to see that some sort of justice comes from a death that was caused by negligence.

I would like to (a) imagine the Justice system as a black box from which we collectively, as a society, want to maximize subjective individual beliefs that we live in a just society; and (b) be prepared to re-think how we collectively achieve this outcome.

This is not an issue about lawyers» ethics; it is about what each of us wants from the American system of justice.

Collaborative Law is worth considering if some or all of the following are true for you: (a) you want a civilized, rational resolution of the issues, (b) you would like to keep open the possibility of a viable working relationship with your partner down the road, (c) you and your partner will be raising children together and you want the best working relationship possible, (d) you want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigation between parents, (e) you have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity, (f) you value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and parenting arrangements to a stranger (a judge), (g) you recognize the restricted and often unpredictable range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your spouse or partner for resolving the issues.