Download or read book PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN CANADA written by CHERYL. MILNE and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Fight for What s Right written by Swaigen, John and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Fight for What's Right is a guide for both lawyers and lay people offering guidance through the legal thickets they face when they take on government and business in the courts. This book will meet the needs of environmentalists, civil rights organizations, consumer groups, lawyers, and legal staff of community law clinics--it's the guide that shows citizen groups how to use the legal system to their advantage. First published in 1981, How to Fight for What's Right remains a practical and useful guide to advocacy and the law.
Download or read book Courting the People written by Anuj Bhuwania and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India"--Provided by publisher".
Download or read book Public Interest Lawyering written by Alan K. Chen and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.
Download or read book Costs Shifting written by Australia. Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission was asked to have particular regard to the practice in some courts of ordering an unsuccessful party in proceedings to pay the legal costs of the successful party (the costs indemnity rule). This inquiry arose from a recommendation by the Access to Justice Advisory Committee (AJAC) in its report Access to justice an action plan (AJAC Report). AJAC was concerned that the costs indemnity rule may adversely affect access to justice. It may deter people from pursuing meritorious cases because of the risk of having to pay a portion of the other party's costs in addition to their own costs if unsuccessful.
Download or read book Law of Public Interest Litigation in India and Other Countries written by Chitranjali Negi and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a matter of great pleasure for me to present this book "Law of Public Interest Litigation in India & Other Countries" to Common People of India who have interest in Judicial Activism (PIL). The fundamental objective of Public Interest Litigation is to give to the common people access to the courts to obtain legal redress and maintaining the Rule of law and accelerating the balance between law and justice for social-change. The Book "Law of Public Interest Litigation in India & other countries" offers the Concept and History of Public Interest Litigation. The Procedure of Public Interest Litigation filing before Courts. Landmark Cases of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Activism for social Justice. The Book shares Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in USA, UK and other counties with landmark cases and also gives introduction of Public Interest Litigation in Australia, Canada, South Africa. Japan and France. The Book covers important key issues and topics of Public Interest Litigation Cases in India: Unlawful Arrest and Detention, Child Labour and Basic Education, Gender Justice, Health Care (medical aid to preserve life), Protection of Fundamental Rights, Property Rights of women, Animal Rights and Protection, Access to Information etc. The Book further describe the role of Eminent Public Interest Litigation Activists Lawyers and Judges in India. This Book is useful for Lawyers, Law Students, Young Advocates, Social Activists, RTI Activist and General Public.
Download or read book Boundaries of Judicial Review written by Lorne Sossin and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Carswell. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Class Actions written by Ontario Law Reform Commission and published by Ontario : Ministry of the Attorney General. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law written by Andrew T. Kenyon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.
Download or read book Class Actions in Canada written by Jasminka Kalajdzic and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. They have been employed over the past twenty-five years to overcome barriers to justice for those who would otherwise have no recourse to the courts. First proposing a conceptualization of access to justice that moves beyond mere access to a court procedure, leading expert Jasminka Kalajdzic then methodically assesses survey data and case studies to determine how class action practice fulfills or falls short of its objectives. Class Actions in Canada is a timely exploration of the evolution of collective litigation in Canada.
Download or read book Brian Dickson written by Robert J. Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an inside look at the work of the Supreme Court during its most crucial period.
Download or read book SUPREME COURT LAW REVIEW 2ND SERIES written by and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proportionality in Action written by Mordechai Kremnitzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative and empirical analysis of proportionality in the case law of six constitutional and supreme courts.
Download or read book A Qualified Hope written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines whether the Indian Supreme Court can produce progressive social change and improve the lives of the relatively disadvantaged.
Download or read book Public Interest Litigation in South Africa written by Jason Brickhill and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Litigation in South Africa offers grounded accounts - by leaders in the field - of the campaigns, cases, and causes that have defined key areas of public interest litigation in the country since the constitutional transition. The authors share their perspectives on the struggles led by people, communities, activists, and civil society organisations to realise the vision of the Constitution. The book shares the legal narratives of those particular struggles in the hope that this will contribute to the broader continuous struggle for social justice. Part One of the book considers the history of public interest litigation, the public interest sector today, public interest litigation in the context of international law, the ethics and politics of public interest litigation, and procedure. Part Two addresses public interest litigation in key areas of law: property rights, gender, basic services, health care, LGBTI equality, children's rights, basic education, freedom of expression, access to information, and prisoners' rights. Public Interest Litigation in South Africa seeks to share more of the stories of what has been achieved in the courts, beyond the well-trodden, landmark appellate decisions, as a contribution to informed and critical engagement.
Download or read book Environment in the Courtroom written by Alan Ingelson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Environment in the Courtroom' provides extensive insight into Canadian environmental law. Covering key environmental concepts and the unique nature of environmental damage, environmental prosecutions, sentencing and environmental offences, evidentiary issues in environmental processes and hearings, issues associated with site inspections, investigations, and enforcement, and more, this collection has the potential to make a significant difference at the level of understanding and practice. Containing perspective and insight from experienced and prominent Canadian legal practitioners and scholars, Environment in the Courtroom addresses the Canadian provinces and territories and provides context by comparison to the United States and Australia"--Provided by the publisher.
Download or read book Standing in Public Interest Litigation written by Australia. Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses proposals for criteria of standing; refers to Onus v Alcoa, where a group of Gournditch-jmara people were held to have sufficient ties with land and relics to claim standing under Victorian Legislation.
