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Incarcerating Self-Represented Litigants for Overzealous Advocacy
The question I am asking in this blog is a simple but shocking one. Should we be imprisoning self-represented litigants for objecting t...
Welcoming Legal Aid Ontario’s New Funding – and Asking Some Important Questions
Last week’s announcement by Legal Aid Ontario of new funding of $154 million over four years (http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/news/newsarc...
Lessons for Tarion from the SRL Phenomenon
It’s time to write about Tarion
Tarion - the corporation responsible for Ontario government’s new home warranty program as well as t...
Take the Pledge: We Are Legal Service Professionals, not Lawyers and non-Lawyers
I remember the first time someone pointed out to me – it was the legal sociologist Craig McEwen whose work on dispute resolution and la...
Communication Challenges for Lawyers – or the Pull of Marketing Legal Services?
One of the most thoughtful and reflective SRLs to have worked with NSRLP over the last three years, Derek Parry (see his story here), m...