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Paying for Legal Services with Time rather than Value: the Billable Hour & its Consequences for Clients
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Bank of Nova Scotia v. Diemer (2014 ONCA 851) represents a watershed in judicial forthri...
New Year Wishes: 5 Excuses for Not Involving the Public in A2J Reform to Leave Behind in 2014
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...
Our Pitch to Santa (with the help of Aretha Franklin): Asking the Public to Support Legal Aid in Canada
Over the last few weeks, we have been asking what you might ask Santa – eloquently described in one response as “…the sublime intangibl...
A Year-in-Review: Goodbye to the Plastic Raincoat, Hello to Access to Justice Centres
We have been thinking back to the end-of-year 2013 at the NSRLP this week.
Our December 2013 newsletter featured reports from the Na...
Checking Our Egos and Accepting Our Part is Fundamental to Restoring Public Trust in the Justice System
This week’s guest blogger is Rob Harvie, a family lawyer, Law Society of Alberta Bencher and member of the NSRLP Advisory Board. After ...