Sentences with phrase «without access to a lawyer»

It's not right for the government to be able to arrest and indefinitely detain a US citizen without any access to lawyers or family or visitors.

* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

«This nearly $ 2 million program is helping provide critical legal services to these children who have found themselves here, far from home and without access to a lawyer,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

Human rights groups claim most have been held in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions in military detention facilities, without access to lawyers or ever having appeared in court.

Browder, who only this week rolled out the DoNotPay bot across the whole of the US and UK, with dozens of new practice streams to help those without access to a lawyer, said in a blog post that he sees this as part of the solution to «fixing the legal industry».

With more than 1,000 people sitting in New Orleans jails without access to lawyers, Judge Arthur L. Hunter Jr. decided he had no choice but to begin releasing defendants and suspending their prosecutions.

These non-criminal Canadian Citizens are treated like criminals and put in handcuffs, locked in the back of a police cars and dragged to a hospital without access to lawyers or Charter rights explained to every criminal.

Not exact matches

Olisa Metuh was arrested by the operatives of EFCC on January 5, in his house in Abuja and has been in custody since then, without access to his family and lawyers or doctors.

«Up till this moment, we have not been told officially by the DSS whether or not Hon Akanni was formally released from incarceration after spending 18 days without access to his doctors, lawyers and family members.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House that was provided by the Council, 91 percent of children facing removal proceedings without a lawyer are deported, while only 22 percent of children who have proper representation are deported.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House, 91 percent of children facing deportation proceedings without a lawyer are deported, compared to only 22 percent of children who have representation.

Metuh, through Adegboruwa, sought a declaration that his detention by the EFCC without access to his family and lawyer, and without being charged to court, amounted to a violation of his fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution.

And therefore devices such as the following are used by law societies: (1) methods to control an alleged over-supply of lawyers; (2) «alternative legal services,» which are charity, simplistic services, and without the benefit of the solicitor - client relationship (pro bono services being but a very small exception, and possibly targeted legal services); and, (3) the sponsoring of «apps,» (the application of electronic technology to legal services), the effect of which upon the problem is unknown and unanalyzed, and can not solve any such access to justice problem.

More recently, Emery Lee [10] published a journal article in the University of Miami Law Review entitled «Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services» [11]

Mr. Bilinski's comment assumes that lawyers have access to professional IT consultants who act without special interest... My experience has been the exact opposite with most IT providers simple peddling the product that produces the most profit for the IT provider.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'sAccess to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author'saccess to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

Members of Ontario's family law bench upped the volume of their objections after Bonkalo's March 2017 report recommended paralegals be allowed to provide legal services, without supervision by lawyers, in the areas of custody, access, simple child support cases, restraining orders, enforcement and simple divorces without property.

A lawyer generally may transmit information relating to the representation of a client over the Internet without violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct where the lawyer has undertaken reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access.

Why would they, whose finances come completely from the fees paid by their members, want to finance programs and services intended to help the public access justice without the assistance of a lawyer?

Conversely, the lawyer without access to these technologies will be at a significant competitive disadvantage.

«But I think there are just too many lawyers without access to clients who need them the most, rather than too many lawyers and no jobs.»

The Committee then listed six different situations where lawyers might consider a more secure communication method than email, including when: 1) communicating highly sensitive or confidential information via email or unencrypted email connections, 2) sending an email to or from an account that the email sender or recipient shares with others, 3) sending an email to a client when it is possible that a third person (such as a spouse in a divorce case) knows the password to the email account, or to an individual client at that client's work email account, especially if the email relates to a client's employment dispute with his employer 4) sending an email from a public computer or a borrowed computer or where the lawyer knows that the emails may be read on a public or borrowed computer or on an unsecure network, 5) sending an email if the lawyer knows that the recipient may access it on devices that are potentially accessible to third persons or are not protected by a password, or 6) sending an email if the lawyer is concerned that the NSA or other law enforcement agency may read the email, with or without a warrant.

«No judiciary can accomplish this task without the help of lawyers that have access to good libraries and good libraries themselves.»

This historic program seeks to help bridge the access - to - justice gap by licensing non-lawyers to provide legal advice and assistance in limited areas without the supervision of a lawyer.

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.

The result of these two trends is a dwindling number of lawyers practicing in small communities and rural areas of Canada and a looming access to justice crisis if large numbers of lawyers decide to retire without replacements in place.

There are numerous lawyers and law librarians who want to access resources from several countries without going through extensive hoops and time wasting in the process.

Without personal injury lawyers, many people would not have access to the civil justice system.

Imagine these scenarios as common - place practices: a client can access their attorney - client file, billing statements and case status updates through a secure online portal; a client can prepare for a deposition with their lawyer through a program like Skype without having to travel to the lawyer's office; or a lawyer can take an online CLE and use their electronic course notes to prepare a legal update to their clients through a secure online portal.

Without delving into the financial mechanics, the clients receive access to a lawyer for defined routine matters and pay additional amounts for certain matters.

And, when they've selected a firm that involves non lawyers (as almost all firms do other than sole practitioners working without assistance) that information can be accessed by those members of the firm that need to access it for reasonable purposes, whether they are lawyers or otherwise (receptionist, accounting, IT, etc..)

I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your legal problem or your life problem with legal implications solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice problems are access to lawyer problems.

When Hoodfar was taken to a prison in Tehran, her local lawyer was not told what the charges against his client were, he had almost no access to her and the presiding judge eventually dismissed him without Hoodfar's consent and replaced him with a lawyer who was deemed acceptable to plead before the Revolutionary Court.

And then there's the legal AI systems that allow individuals to gain access to justice, via provision of legal knowledge and guidance, or that help the user to complete legal forms without the immediate input of lawyers.

Nothing can happen in terms of promptly accessing the records, evaluating them, and having them reviewed by an expert without having access to the resources that a lawyer does.

However, simply informing an individual who is under arrest that they have the right to contact a lawyer is fairly meaningless, as the detainee is usually under the control of the arresting officer, without easy access to a telephone or other means of communication.

It gave lawyers the ability to access the same technology they used at the office, or from their laptop, directly from their mobile devices through the browser or an app without any extra cost or IT headache.

In short, Walters says that the only way to close the access - to - justice gap is to enable lawyers to do good legal work without doing a lot of work, and do it at lower cost.

As you might remember from my CES posts, the idea is to give people access to real lawyers to answer their questions without having to setup a meeting or pay a retainer.

«Having data in the cloud empowers firms to deliver better client services from anywhere their lawyers need to be — now even firms without a full cloud deployment can benefit from secure online access to their documents.»

Lawyers Without Borders is a 501c3 not - for - profit that manages volunteering lawyers from around the world who donate pro bono service to rule of law projects, capacity building and access to justice initiLawyers Without Borders is a 501c3 not - for - profit that manages volunteering lawyers from around the world who donate pro bono service to rule of law projects, capacity building and access to justice initilawyers from around the world who donate pro bono service to rule of law projects, capacity building and access to justice initiatives.

We offer traditional recruiting services for direct hire placements without requiring a retainer, and we provide access for our client to our diverse talent pool of over 25,000 + lawyers.

Now, lawyers can send invoices containing the secure link and clients can follow the link to make payments, all without accessing the portal.

In 1998, after five years in private practice, I took a job in public legal education and was soon thereafter introduced to the problems many people have in accessing justice, whether in terms of working effectively with their lawyers, finding a lawyer, paying for a lawyer, or trying to address legal issues without the assistance of a lawyer.

I decided I wanted to provide resources for IT companies and others to access IT legal agreements without having to visit a lawyer.

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This technology is becoming available to the public to provide access to legal information without paying a lawyer — definitely a challenge to law firm earnings.

, allows you to invite specific lawyers to review your claim without, in any way, limiting access of any other lawyer to see your claim.

Lawyers who have access to experienced mentors benefit from practical advice and information without having to learn «by trial and error.»