Dubbed the BC Wallet, the pilot program launched last September and is currently being tested by a small number of family duty counsel lawyers through the Law Society of British Columbia. According to the Minis
Colombialegal professionlegal reformtransitional justiceThe purpose of this article is to examine the current efforts to give the profession a strong national voice. It looks at the Colombian legal profession in thedoi:10.2139/ssrn.2057674Peter Burbidge...
an unwanted byproduct from what was once one of thelargest gold mines in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Consider that it only takes140milligrams of arsenic trioxide to kill a person; there’s enough of the poison here to kill 1.7 trillion people. The local...
Section 2 examines the counter-emergence of a feminist protest politics that has abandoned liberal abortion law in a democratic remaking of society and state. Today, in abortion lawmaking through democratized institutions and in the unmaking of abortion law through direct action, feminist movements ...
During the last half century, a complex form of tort action known as the ‘toxic tort’ has developed to address some of the challenges of modern industrial society. Typically, the toxic tort is a civil action that seeks damages for injury to person or to property arising from alleged exposu...
media and civil society. Why do checks and balances matter? Checks and balances play two key roles. First, they limit the power of the majority to act without regard to the views or interests of others. They ensure that the perspectives of those who are in the minority on a given issue...
The details of the legislation were worked on, and the over-all state of accessibility in Iceland was assessed in the Fall of 2013 as part of the government plans for the Icelandic Information Society 2013 – 2016. However, while there is a policy, as of 2023, this legislation has yet ...
In British Colombia, Pivot legal tried to copy the Salvos’ framework, but ultimately had to close down due to lack of affordable capital and lack of business management expertise; both that could have been mitigated if it were conducted with an ABS model . Even if there is an increase ...
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Browne Jacobson LLP is the first choice for NHS Foundation Trusts nationwide, and enjoys the accolade of influencing national policy through advising the Ministry of Justice on revised Court forms; acting in Re X on the streamlined Court process; and assisting the Intensive Care Society on deprivati...