Sentences with phrase «working on access to justice»

During law school, Sophia completed an internship at the Supreme Court of Canada in the Law Branch working on access to justice issues.

ACLRC's work on Access to Justice would not be possible without the assistance of our dedicated volunteers, as well as our articling and summer students.

Read more about West Coast LEAF's long - standing work on access to justice and the right to legal aid here.

One example is the Measurement Working Group [Members], which has worked on the Access to Justice Measurement Framework.

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The Ministry of Justice says prisoners still have access to the prison library and can spend any money they make in prison work on books.

The event is behind held in conjunction with The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), an organization that works on behalf of «educational justice and equity in access to school resources and opportunities.»

Thankfully, the issue of access to justice is figuring prominently in the general debate, as evidenced by the recently released CBA Legal Futures report and the ongoing work of the Action Committee on Access to Juaccess to justice is figuring prominently in the general debate, as evidenced by the recently released CBA Legal Futures report and the ongoing work of the Action Committee on Access to Jjustice is figuring prominently in the general debate, as evidenced by the recently released CBA Legal Futures report and the ongoing work of the Action Committee on Access to JuAccess to JusticeJustice.

The OTLA goes on to say there's not been enough evidence of ABS really working or creating more access to justice, so now's not the time for it in Ontario.

The Working Group determined that ``... based on the experience to date in other jurisdictions, the likely access to justice impact does not appear to be sufficient to justify majority non-licensee ownership or effective control, for practices generally.»

Beyond that, the potential for ABSs to improve access to justice is being put forward as a key reason for allowing them, as can be seen in Slaw columns of Malcolm Mercer and in the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on ABSs that he co-chairs.

Together, the Council and its social justice collaboration partner, the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court justice collaboration partner, the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice, oversee program committees working on Criminal Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice Reform, Access to Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Justice, Child Support and Family Law Reform, and Immigration Court Reform.

Community engagement and stakeholder collaboration increasingly drive the Society's access to justice work through local and national A2J networks such as partnering with United Way Halifax and participation in CBA - NS Law Day, Access to Justice Week and a roundtable hosted by the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family Juaccess to justice work through local and national A2J networks such as partnering with United Way Halifax and participation in CBA - NS Law Day, Access to Justice Week and a roundtable hosted by the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family Jjustice work through local and national A2J networks such as partnering with United Way Halifax and participation in CBA - NS Law Day, Access to Justice Week and a roundtable hosted by the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family JuAccess to Justice Week and a roundtable hosted by the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family JJustice Week and a roundtable hosted by the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family JuAccess to Civil and Family JusticeJustice.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Legal Aid Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group have sent an open letter to the new Prime Minister, Theresa May, welcoming her vision of «a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us» and calling on the government to review the impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice.

Mr. Clark has on many occasions worked for reduced rates where the client's financial means and access to justice are real issues.

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.

This week's posting focuses on Georgia State's new Center for Access to Justice, which was founded in 2016 to support those working to ensure meaningful access to the courts and equal treatment in the civil and criminal justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.&Access to Justice, which was founded in 2016 to support those working to ensure meaningful access to the courts and equal treatment in the civil and criminal justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.Justice, which was founded in 2016 to support those working to ensure meaningful access to the courts and equal treatment in the civil and criminal justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.&access to the courts and equal treatment in the civil and criminal justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.justice systems, with a regional focus on the South.»

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

(4) Reports, dated May 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, recommending that legal services be provided by non-lawyer professionals who provide related services: Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group; and, Report of the Court Processes Simplification Working Group.

Chris Bentley, executive director of Ryerson's LPP, and director Gina Alexandris say they are evaluating all aspects of the program over the summer, such as doing more work on client development and the access to justice innovation challenge.

The Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice (A2J) Committee is currently working on its Envisioning Equal Justice project.

The ABA's Commission on Domestic Violence created the directory in partnership with Pro Bono Net, a national organization that works to increase access to justice.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers... [more]

The idea that limited scope work could improve access to legal help has been cited by many reports on access to justice, but no one has ever conducted any empirical research to test the idea, says [/ span] John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in Calgary.

In a presentation at the Action Group on Access To Justice's Access to Justice Week, University of Toronto sociology professor Ronit Dinovitzer and PhD candidate Jonathan Koltai discussed their recent work and the imperative for the legal community to meet challenges it faces in mental healtTo Justice's Access to Justice Week, University of Toronto sociology professor Ronit Dinovitzer and PhD candidate Jonathan Koltai discussed their recent work and the imperative for the legal community to meet challenges it faces in mental healtto Justice Week, University of Toronto sociology professor Ronit Dinovitzer and PhD candidate Jonathan Koltai discussed their recent work and the imperative for the legal community to meet challenges it faces in mental healtto meet challenges it faces in mental health.

On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report «La tarification horaire à l'heure de la réflexion» (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time for Reflection) calling for an end to hourly billing by lawyers and law firms in the hope of improving access to justice for the public and a better work - life balance for lawyers.

As a strategic thinker working at the intersection of law, technology and access to justice, and based on my years of experience being embedded in a community legal centre, here are some ideas that seem to me, to have some potential for positive impact:

«I call on you to continue to do what you're doing; advocate for more funding, examine systems and create new systems, work together, be creative and think about the exorbitant fees we charge and what that means for people who need access to justice.»

There's an adjustment that's going on and the state supreme court group is really into it and then the various access to justice commissions have done pretty amazing work so this is the second part of the story.

Nicole Bradick: Yeah, so I do think it's great that there's so much focus right now on access to justice technology, but the people who are doing the really hard work are the people who are out there sort of pushing for a systemic change and trying to make changes to court rules or processes.

Last week, the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Justice Tom Cromwell, released for public consultation two of four reports from its working groups.

The main challenges are: 1) working your way through an ad - hoc process that rests on a yes / no decision of a Chief Justice; 2) juggling a mix of standards and unique requirements that reduce the possible uses of the whole to the strictest of terms imposed by one; and 3) the court actually finding a way to provide or facilitate access to both current and historical decisions in a usable format.

Lord Bach, who is chairing Labour's Commission on Access to Justice, resigned from his frontbench role in the House of Lords in May 2016 following his election as Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire, but his review of legal aid is continuing its work.

We understand that you are currently working on some projects that aim to harness technology to improve access to justice for so that the public can public know all their available options in resolving disputes including online legal consultation services.

But I also have some other initiatives that I am going to ask lawyers to be part of this year, and we are all going to work together on access to justice and helping lawyers help their clients, and I will be glad to tell you how.

on Access to Justice Commissions: Learning to Work Collaboratively on Difficult Justice Problems

But law societies are expanding the field of professionals they authorize to give legal advice: see the Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

It remains to be seen how this will apply to a broader public consultation on a complex area by an expert decision - maker, particularly in the context of environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consulJustice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consuljustice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultAccess to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consulJustice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultaccess to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consuljustice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultation.

A number were proposed in the Final Report of the Family Justice Working Group of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justicejustice.

Competitors were broken into two categories, those that were focused on the business and practice of law and those that worked to build access to justice and government solutions for the public.

(a) an internal focus on access to justice as a strategic objective underpinning all of the Law Society's work, which will include: (i) designating appropriate resources to enhance the Law Society's approach to developing access to justice objectives integrated across program areas; (ii) strategically reviewing, reconsidering and, where appropriate, amending the Law Society's rules, regulations, policies and practices to foster change and innovation and achieve the Law Society's access to justice objectives; and (iii) developing metrics to measure the effectiveness of actions taken; and.

But before leaving the category of proceedings into which magistrates» court child support work falls: for the Legal Services Commission if a lawyer should seek legal aid for his client in committal proceedings (CSA 1991 s 39A — 40) it is treated as «criminal proceedings» under Access to Justice Act 1999, s 12 (2)(g) and Criminal Defence Service (General)(No 2) Regulations (SI 2001/1437) by application on CDS14 and CDS15.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

Having practised at Macfarlanes he may be a little rusty on legal aid practice but at least he should have familiarity with our work and business and the principles of access to justice and the rule of law.»

At the CFCJ, Ab Currie will develop further this pioneering work on justiciable problems and its insights for access to justice in Canada.

Sam Glover: We need to take a quick break to hear from our sponsors, and when we come back I want to talk about your unique perspective on access to justice, because you're not serving the poorest of the poor, but it comes up a lot in your clientele and just in the work that you do.

This report from the Treasurer» Advisory Group on Access to Justice (TAG) Working Group proposes a framework for change which would see the Law Society lead and innovate on these important issues, rather than have change imposed upon it.

She continues to work on law reform projects with The Society relating to family law and access to justice.

Jim Calloway: Colin, I have been working with our State Access to Justice Commission and Committees here in Oklahoma, and I am not surprised that Europe is out ahead on this, but have we seen much of this actually implemented in the United States and would you have any suggestions about where the low - hanging fruit or first steps are?

The Commission is working on a range of projects to achieve its mission to develop and encourage means of expanding access to the civil justice system for unrepresented low - income Wisconsin residents.