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27 Jan

Dear Julie: Diary of a Self-Represented Litigant

July 16, 2020
By NSRLP
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This week’s guest blogger is an anonymous SRL who wrote me the following message this last week. Their story is typical of the messages...

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20 Jan

Stereotypes Hold Us Back: Challenging Our Assumptions about A2J with Real Data

July 23, 2021
By NSRLP
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A deeply shocking blog written by a former lawyer on the subject of “Licensed Legal Technicians” (a pilot program in some US states) cr...

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13 Jan

Paying for Legal Services with Time rather than Value: the Billable Hour & its Consequences for Clients

July 23, 2021
By NSRLP
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The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Bank of Nova Scotia v. Diemer (2014 ONCA 851) represents a watershed in judicial forthri...

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08 Jan

New Year Wishes: 5 Excuses for Not Involving the Public in A2J Reform to Leave Behind in 2014

July 23, 2021
By NSRLP
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I have a New Year wish. Please can we stop repeating these hackneyed excuses for not including the public – “not now, not yet, not t...

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16 Dec

Our Pitch to Santa (with the help of Aretha Franklin): Asking the Public to Support Legal Aid in Canada

December 16, 2014
By NSRLP
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Over the last few weeks, we have been asking what you might ask Santa – eloquently described in one response as “…the sublime intangibl...

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