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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 ...
The Psychological Costs of Seeking Civil Justice
This week’s guest blogger is Professor Noel Semple, our colleague at the Faculty of Law University of Windsor and a member of the NSRLP...