Sentences with phrase «well as the access to justice»

Inclusion in the Top 25 talks to a level of respect, the ability to influence public opinion, and to help shape the laws of this country and others; contribution to the strength and quality of legal services as well as access to justice; and social and political influence and involvement.

Meanwhile, keep an eye out for Part 3 of this series of blogs that will highlight the second chapter of the report, which examines the pros and cons of the current legal system as well as the access to justice issues that plague it.

Not exact matches

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of four defendants, two Russian intelligence officers and two state - sponsored hackers, for the theft of Yahoo user data in late 2014, as well as cookie forging to obtain access to user accounts on our network in 2015 and 2016.

The Tories have undermined access to justice for too long, something we have seen in family law as well.

It would be recalled that similar orders had been made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High as well as Justice Baba Yusuf of an Abuja High Court for the same purposes due to complaints of denial of access to lawyers by Dasuki even after all of them had granted him bail.

For this not to happen, and for there to be sustainable peace as well as credible progress against poverty before 2030, then what needs to be in place are «responsive and legitimate institutions» that «encourage the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice, access to justice, and accountable government and public institutions» (UN-High-Level-Panel, 2013: 9).

Gibb said: «As part of our commitment to social justice, we are restoring rigour to the curriculum so all young people, irrespective of background, have access to an excellent, well - rounded education.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

One such school, Judith Kaye High School, exclusively supports students within the legal justice system where students are given access to free mental health services and the ability to obtain not only a high school diploma, but trade certificates as well (Zimmer & Weaver, 2017).

As for environmental justice, Democrats «will work to expand access to cost - saving renewable energy by low - income households, create good - paying jobs in communities that have struggled with energy poverty, and oppose efforts by utilities to limit consumer choice or slow clean energy deployment.»

The linked article takes note of the fact, as will all of you, that there is a potential for abuse here: if good people can scrape databases for noble access - to - justice reasons, bad bottom - feeders can scrape those same databases to sell people expensive services they do not need.

You claim that «the duty to advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, as well as to undertake measures to facilitate access to justice and protect the public interest, is also synonymous with a duty to «promote».

«Our new areas of jurisdiction represent a strong vote of confidence from the provincial government as well as an opportunity to significantly increase access to justice for those injured in motor vehicle accidents in British Columbia,» she said.

In my view, that duty ought to be understood to at least require that the debate on ABSs and access to justice include consideration of possible means for ensuring that the new and improved services ABSs are expected to develop will benefit not just the middle class, but people living on low income as well.

It remains to be seen whether Access Info Europe will appeal the case (as well as its sister case, Case T - 852 / 16 Access Info Europe v Commission) to the Court of Justice.

Such egregious statements by a sitting judge have broad repercussions, threatening survivors» access to the equal protection of the law and undermining women's equality, as well as the public's trust in our justice system.

And under the Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United States has committed to «ensur [ing] equal access to justice for all,» as well as to «develop [ing] effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels» that are needed for that purpose.

Most recently, she was a legal intern at the Montana Supreme Court where she worked for Justice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy efAccess to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy efaccess to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy ejustice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy efforts.

However, Kalajdzic points out that technological innovation is occurring within the industry absent ABSs and that «such technology can at best be described as providing limited improvements to access to justice,» as it is not a replacement for face - to - face legal services provided by an attorney.

The examples in this chapter demonstrate that alternative structures open quite wide a very large spectrum of possibilities with respect to access to justice — possibilities that today we can easily predict, as well as ones that only the future and our own creativity will reveal.

In addition to volunteer legal assistance at the centers, the Hawaii State Judiciary has also partnered with the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Public Library System to make self - help interactive court forms software available at the Self - Help Centers and Access to Justice Rooms and public libraries across the state as well as online.

We maintain a 24 - hour call service to protect your rights and to ensure that you have access to justice at all times and accept cases on private retainers as well as Legal Aid.

[These examples] demonstrate that alternative structures open quite wide a very large spectrum of possibilities with respect to access to justice — possibilities that today we can easily predict, as well as ones that only the future and our own creativity will reveal.

It may limit access to justice because of the costs and delays associated with its processing, but, as any security expert will tell you, the best way to guarantee that information is protected is to not have it.

The projects I have participated in as a supervising lawyer have without exception been well organized and effective both to develop and strengthen students» legal skills and to enhance access to justice through the enthusiastic effort of the student volunteers.

In hindsight, they may well realise that they should have bought a before - the - event legal expenses insurance policy, as Jackson LJ suggested they should do, but unless they can fund the action themselves, access to justice will be an illusion for businesses in the post-LASPO world.

That advertising can contribute to access to justice as well by «empowering people to understand what services are available, what they are, where they can go, who they can talk to, and what they can cost,» as Osgoode law professor Trevor Farrow says.

The site was built by the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School, with support from Pfizer Inc. and the Pfizer Legal Alliance of 15 law firms, as well as from Deloitte and MSDS.

Widely respected and well known for her outspokenness on issues such as access to justice, free speech, diversity and inclusive leadership, 73 - year - old McLachlin will be stepping down after 28 years on the Supreme Court, with 17 of those as presiding judge.

The Justice Index describes itself as «a snapshot of the degree to which best practices for ensuring access to the civil and criminal justice systems have been adopted across the country.Justice Index describes itself as «a snapshot of the degree to which best practices for ensuring access to the civil and criminal justice systems have been adopted across the country.justice systems have been adopted across the country.»

McLachlin, who was selected as a «Top 25 Most Influential Lawyer» by Canadian Lawyer multiple times (most recently in 2015), is widely respected in the legal profession for her leadership on the court as well as her outspokenness on issues such as access to justice, free speech, diversity and inclusive leadership.

Speaking to people who know him well, he comes across as someone with a deep understanding of the importance of access to justice and legal aid.

Professor Woolley's academic articles have discussed lawyer billing, the good character requirement for law society admission, the regulation of extra-professional misconduct, legal ethics teaching, access to justice, the regulation of civility, independence of the bar, the lawyer's duties as fiduciary and as an advisor, criminal lawyer ethics and the theoretical foundations of the lawyer's role.

If we do not step up as a profession to meet this market need for access to justice, then other companies are going to find ways to do so, whether or not it is in the best interests of the public or meets the high standards of professionalism to which attorneys are held.

Judge Rogers outlined some good proposals for improving access to justice, such as individual calendaring (assigning one and only one judge to a case) and judicially - assisted alternative dispute resolution.

Lord Jackson is best known for his «Jackson Reforms,» which eliminated excess legal costs, and helped further access to justice through the promotion of tools such as Litigation Finance....

``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?

Law reform commissions as well as self - standing initiatives such as the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters have made this sort of rethinking a priority for moving forward.

Access to justice is the applicable principle that guides the court's determination as to the appropriate form of notice, and the court is mandated to consider a number of factors which determine the best form of notice in the circumstances.

As well, in recent years considerable popular and legal media attention has focused on the lack of access to justice and the high cost of legal representation, often making connections to concerns about the adequacy of available legal aid.

The cost - effectiveness of cloud technology (aka «virtual law office» or VLO) that enables lawyers to deliver online legal services has been touted as one of best methods to address access to justice challenges, increasing as a result of a prolonged economic downturn.

In most provinces as well as nationally, rethinking access to justice for meeting the legal needs of Canadian families is a central policy agenda item.

The report, which has been shared with Attorney General David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, as well as the opposition critics, proposes overarching areas of proposed justice system reforms categorized into 10 main areas of law and policy, including but not limited to: policing, access to justice, family law, corrections, human rights, mental illness and addiction, poverty and income inequality, and government compliance with outstanding legal protections.

This concept of access to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewaccess to justice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viejustice recognizes that factors outside the law can make even «good» law inaccessible, and that a problem that has been framed as legal, may really be about other conditions affecting a person that are outside of the law: Patricia Hughes, Advancing Access to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice through Generic Solutions: the risk of perpetuating exclusion, 31 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice 1 (2013)[Hughes, Access to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/viewAccess to Justice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/vieJustice and Generic Solutions], online http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4308.

It is therefore important for law and access to justice policy - makers to take into account differences within the disability community, as well as differences between persons with disabilities and those without disabilities.

The aim of this innovation project is to cut annual spending by # 250m and staff by 40 %, while at the same time improving access to Justice, as well as the speed and quality of service delivery (e.g. by the use of online forms for petitions).

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I realize that cost is often a major impediment to access to justice, hence I accept legal aid clients and Cba referrals as well as offer unbundled services, all on a case by case basis.

«There are a lot of stories that, through a journalistic lens, will help us understand justice better,» says Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall, who refers to recent stories in daily newspapers such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail that have examined issues of access to justice and more.

In 2014, the award was presented to Kimberly Murray, who improved access to justice for Aboriginal Peoples as well as her public service as an educator, attorney and community leader for 20 years.