Sentences with phrase «with legal barriers»

President Obama's 2012 administrative action — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — represents an acknowledgement that the current status quo on immigration policy is having particularly disastrous effects on young people who have grown up in the U.S. but due to their undocumented status and to the inability of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, experience turbulent transitions to adulthood rife with legal barriers and exclusions.

Not exact matches

And with the legal and language barriers, social isolation and employment challenges that immigrants often face, many are also at risk of exploitation and human trafficking.

CT also covered a million - dollar study that revealed how Christians in 30 different countries cope with persecution, as well as the way Egypt's legal barriers seem to push Christian women to convert to Islam in order to obtain a divorce.

Rafa Marquez closing in on spot with Mexico's World Cup squad Mexico's Rafa Marquez is closing in on his fifth World Cup, with his lawyer indicating there are no legal barriers to the 39 - year - old appearing.

Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.

@Brythan - all fair points, though the point of the example was to indicate that there was existing legal authority to proceed with another 58 miles of barrier and that the Executive Order wasn't creating new law.

In his recommendations, Magu sought for improved coordination and cooperation among State parties in asset recovery through the consideration and adoption of measures that will remove traditional «barriers such as bank secrecy consistent with Article 46 (8) and dual criminality Article 46 (9) as well as simplify legal technicalities in the recovery and repatriation of stolen funds.

With stories in the media about authority figures such as volunteers, officials, parents and schools stopping people from taking risks because they fear legal liability or being tied up in red - tape, there is a perception that health and safety has become a barrier to our lives.

What these detractors overlook is ongoing work with the California State Board of Education to create a regulatory framework around the parent trigger process that removes unwarranted barriers and codifies the legal steps leading to the successful transformation of a failing school.

But programs are difficult to sustain without continued funding, and can not result in real opportunities with the current legal barriers that are associated with refugee status in Thailand.

It may come when opponents play games with a school's transportation or funding, or when legal barriers are tossed in the way, or when false information about charter schools is widely disseminated.

The most significant barrier that prevents charters from serving more students with disabilities is the charter school special education legal identity, or the degree to which a charter school is autonomous from its authorizer for special education services.

These barriers should be removed, and ongoing meetings with their legal counsel offer hope.

Legal situation in the Czech Republic is ambiguous and the visitor from abroad may get into trouble very easily especially when he / she is not able to negotiate with the staff members due to language barrier.

Samson Young will discuss his work Canon, a sound installation and durational performance which incorporates the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), together with the legal and political barriers to performing and exhibiting this work.

Subtitle B: Carbon Capture and Sequestration -(Sec. 111) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, and other relevant agencies, to report to Congress on a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory and other barriers to the commercial - scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration.

(Sec. 339) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the heads of other relevant agencies to report to Congress on setting forth a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory, technological, and other barriers to maximizing the potential for sustainable biological sequestration of carbon within the United States.

A legal barrier to climate finance in one country may be as fundamental as its legal system not being aligned with the requirements of the provider / s of climate finance.

While acknowledging that contingency fees are needed to facilitate access to justice, the Court clarified that policy goal of reducing barriers to legal services is but one factor to consider, and that the policy of maintaining the integrity of the profession is a primary concern with deep roots.

Newark Reentry Legal Services, pro bono legal services helping individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters which present barriers to successful community reintegraLegal Services, pro bono legal services helping individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters which present barriers to successful community reintegralegal services helping individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters which present barriers to successful community reintegralegal matters which present barriers to successful community reintegration.

Further, there is value in working with social service agencies to identify systemic and organizational barriers that may contribute to staff referral fatigue, resistance to working with legal authorities, and reduced efficacy of service delivery to clients.

He has provided pro bono legal services to the Newark Reentry Legal Services organization, which helps individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters that present barriers to successful community reintegralegal services to the Newark Reentry Legal Services organization, which helps individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters that present barriers to successful community reintegraLegal Services organization, which helps individuals with criminal records address civil legal matters that present barriers to successful community reintegralegal matters that present barriers to successful community reintegration.

Advocacy Committee: The Advocacy Committee focuses on coordinating efforts to deal with, among other things, issues of barriers to the legal profession by internationally trained lawyers, diversity in the legal community, access to justice, and the role of Canadians in global legal markets.

Despite the legal protections that have been put in place to protect employees from workplace harassment, including those found in human rights and occupational health and safety legislation, which require employers to provide employees with a safe and respectful working environment, systemic barriers to reporting these incidents remain.

A number of people participating in the third weekly Twitter chat, this one dealing with how legal services can be changed to increase access, pointed to cost as a barrier.

Coupled with the breadth of the question, the legal - argumentative potential of the long - term barrier it creates is high.

With a legal system very different to that which clients may be accustomed to in their home country, expectations of service and language barriers can raise additional and at times unforeseen issues.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

With chapters written by leading international experts, topics covered include: the government's role in energy ownership and development; industry standards for establishing liability; legal concepts excusing performance during periods of commodity price or supply volatility; right of access to infrastructure; barriers to entry for foreign companies; criminal, health and safety, and environmental liability; sovereign boundary disputes; and relevant energy treaties.

«Law students and lawyers with disabilities still face barriers in accessing and remaining in the legal profession.

This article was published in the January 2018 issue of the ABA Journal with the title «Making Success Accessible: Attorneys who have disabilities are breaking down barriers in the legal profession.»

«We want to break down some of the barriers associated with the legal profession and make us more accessible to these individuals.»

The workplace barriers that persons with disabilities face are therefore critical barriers to their overall well - being: Ravi Malhotra, The Implications of the Social Model of Disablement for the Legal Regulation of the Modern Workplace in Canada and the United States, (2009) 33 Man.

Laws dealing with legal capacity, decision - making and guardianship are examples of attitudinal barriers embedded in the law.

A common barrier to equal justice for unrepresented parties is that both judges and court administrators are often ill prepared and ill equipped to provide such parties with the sufficient legal information they need in order to present their cases to the best of their abilities.

Persons with disabilities face barriers to accessing justice because of the negative attitudes of those who design and implement laws and legal policies and practices, including those that are paternalistic, judgmental, stigmatizing, stereotyping or invalidating.

The LCO Disabilities Report identifies the following barriers experienced by persons with disabilities because of the attitudes of those that implement the law, at 42 — 43: (1) heavy judgment and negative assumptions experienced by persons with mental health disabilities, particularly the homeless; (2) lack of support systems, stigma and fear experienced by persons with mental disabilities, which may also lead to increased contact with police and contribute to their criminalization; (3) reluctance to acknowledge the validity of (and therefore to accommodate) persons with disabilities, particularly those with learning, environmental, and chronic fatigue disabilities; and (4) suspicion and contempt towards persons with disabilities seeking services and supports, which may lead to persons within the legal system interpreting and applying laws in ways that frustrate or deny people's rights to those services and supports.

However with the advent of the Internet and the multiplication of the channels for the distribution of legal material, this science of case naming was creating a barrier for all those judicial and administrative institutions which were engaged in self - publishing.

This was consistent with the UNCITRAL mandate, which was to remove barriers in existing legal rules that stood in the way of legally effective e-communications.

You would sell out the independence of the legal profession for ephemeral, imagined benefits that are wholly unnecessary, and downright harmful, to the process of dealing with the one sky - high barrier to access to justice.

The report adds: «In 2016/17, we will work with market intermediaries to understand whether there are barriers, regulatory or otherwise, preventing them from entering the legal services sector.

These sessions, along with the industry - leading keynotes and hands - on training, will teach attendees from across the globe how to break down the barriers between legal, compliance, and operational risk - reducing the impact of adverse events with transparency, predictability, and control.

Ark Group in association with Managing Partner has just published a new report, Breaking Barriers: Promoting and Retaining Women in the Legal Profession.

After many years working with in - house legal teams, I am still amazed and concerned to see lawyers at all levels of an organisation having large amounts of their time, wasted by a whole series of barriers, constraints and issues.

The goal of our Low Bono Program is to lower barriers that may prevent people with moderate financial means from accessing legal services, specifically those involved in family law cases.

The irony is that those barriers — prohibitions of outside investment in law firms; profit - sharing with «non-lawyers», corporate structure; and inter-disciplinary practice — have been circumnavigated by in - house legal departments and service providers.

Providing legal aid services to those facing barriers to access to justice — such as those with low incomes, mental illness, addictions and homelessness — has made up a significant part of his work over the years.

After engaging this afternoon in a discussion about a number of issues related to ongoing access to justice, I continued thinking about the barriers that stand between ordinary people with legal problems and their effective access to justice.

«With globalization of markets, I think it was important for the law societies of Canada to allow lawyers to move freely and practise across Canada without any barrier,» he tells Legal Feeds.

Those barriers are already being circumvented with the full support of consumers eager for greater access, more efficient delivery, more customer - centric, and lower priced legal service providers.