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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Civil justice"”.
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Measuring Access to Civil Justice: An Empirical Study of Ontario's Reform Initiatives
Access to civil justice remains one of the most pressing concerns within the legal community in Canada. Yet, despite over a half century of reform efforts, many people still struggle to resolve their legal difficulties in a timely and cost effective manner. Part of the reason that reform efforts …
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The efficacy of jury trials in the South African civil justice system
In classical terms, democracy is synonymous with direct participation. However, as states grew and direct public participation became more difficult, a more minimal concept of democracy associated with enfranchisement was adopted. Democracy, however, should not be limited to the enfranchisement of …
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Starting from Scratch : Introducing the Class Action into the Thai Civil Justice System
Class action is on its way to the Thai civil system. Thai legislature would like to see class action helping small and unsophisticated claimants to get redress together with an enhanced trust in the judicial system. There is a benefit from economy of scale that can help with administration of …
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Fire the hired gun: Eliminating expert bias in the accusatorial-adversarial civil justice system
In 1954, an expert witness, Dr Unsworth, testifying for the defendant, exculpatorily opined that the plaintiff was a malingerer, but had he testified for the plaintiff instead, his opinion would be that the plaintiff's condition was post-traumatic at the hands of the defendant. 1 This statement …
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Essays on the law and economics of public institutions
… on the inner-workings of the United States civil justice system; chapters 2 and 3 focus their attention on the U.S. military. In Chapter 1 I study a procedural reform in the U.S. federal trial courts. Re-cent court reform efforts in the U.S. and elsewhere have focused on speeding up what are …
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Accessibility of Legal Services in the United States: Lawyer Regulation by Whom, to What End?
… result? As regards “accessible and affordable civil justice,” the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index ranks the US 96th of 113 countries. Countries like Afghanistan, Belarus, El Salvador, Russia and Uganda are ranked higher. Those countries provide better access to civil justice than the …
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AN EVALUATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING SUCCESS IN COURT ANNEXED MEDIATION IN SASKATCHEWAN
… Saskatchewan through Canada’s evolving access to justice framework, arguing that traditional measures such as settlement rates, user satisfaction, and docket efficiency provide an incomplete picture of mediation’s justice impact. Drawing on the Access to Justice Measurement Framework (A2JMF), the …
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Reforming the approach to mediation legislation in South Africa: a comparative analysis
… human rights, including the right to access to justice. Section 34 of the Constitution unequivocally states that every individual has the right to a fair and public hearing before a court or an independent tribunal. This right is seen as an inherent constitutional guarantee, reflecting South …
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Hryniak, the 2010 Amendments, and the First Stages of a Culture Shift?: The Evolution of Ontario Civil Procedure in the 2010s
… the effects of amendments to Ontarios Rules of Civil Procedure that came into effect on January 1, 2010 (the 2010 Amendments) and were subject to interpretation by the Supreme Court of Canada in a 2014 decision (Hryniak). Hryniak concerned summary judgment. However, the dissertation largely …
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Open justice and investigations into deaths at the hands of the police, or in police or prison custody
Lord Neuberger describes open justice as a procedural principle requiring that "what goes on in court and what a court decides is open to scrutiny".1 The prime rationale typically given for this principle is that it is a safety check on the right to a fair trial, and so instrumental to the …
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Intelligenza artificiale e amministrazione della Giustizia
… the proclaimed need to improve the efficiency of civil justice and reduce the time of judicial processes, the margins of use of artificial intelligence systems within the judicial system, with regard both to the exercise of jurisdiction in the strict sense (i.e., the decision-making process) and …
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King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah's Iran, 1968-1978
… above, and as the path to, political agency and civil justice. This thesis examines the ways in which the Shah’s international human rights rhetoric had unintended consequences for Iran’s domestic stability and the Shah’s regional security goals. In dividing human rights in both rhetoric and …
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King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah's Iran, 1968-1978
… above, and as the path to, political agency and civil justice. This thesis examines the ways in which the Shah’s international human rights rhetoric had unintended consequences for Iran’s domestic stability and the Shah’s regional security goals. In dividing human rights in both rhetoric and …
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Emerging trends in construction law at the confluence of academia and industry
… documents that were published in 2014 by the Civil Justice Council, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Society of Construction Law was researched. The following were suggested as barriers affecting experts: regulations, budgetary controls, availability of evidence and …
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The use and potential problems of neuropsychological evidence in Australian tort litigation
… within such evidence jeopardises the procedural justice of Australian brain injury tort litigation. Therefore, the present study explored how Australian tort litigation lawyers use expert neuropsychological evidence and how plaintiff lawyers advise and prepare their clients for neuropsychological …