22 Jun Blog “Just, most expeditious and least expensive”: the Long Road Back to a Civil Justice System July 26, 2021 By NSRLP 1 comment I can think of no better way to frame what I would like to say in this week’s blog – on our monthly theme of “Clearer and Simpler Court...Continue reading
16 Jun Blog “No claim for pooping and scooping into the neighbour’s garbage”: but SRLs deserve to present reasonable claims and not be halted by procedures they do not understand July 26, 2021 By NSRLP 3 comments There has been a lot of chatter on social media about the Forest Hill neighbour dispute (Morland-Jones v. Taerk (2014 ONSC 3061)). Just...Continue reading
01 Jun Blog Self-Represented Litigants (and Law Students) Are Not the Enemy June 30, 2021 By NSRLP 2 comments Sometimes the discourse about SRLs that emanates from some of our embattled members of the Bench – who are presently experiencing a sei...Continue reading
25 May Blog Duty Counsel Un-Plugged: How We Need to Evolve Public Legal Services to Respond to the SRL Phenomenon July 26, 2021 By NSRLP 1 comment In the course of the National SRL Study, I interviewed around a dozen duty counsel in courthouses across Ontario, Alberta and British C...Continue reading
20 May Blog Let’s Dare to Dream: Customer Service in the Courthouse of the Future? June 30, 2021 By NSRLP 0 comments During the course of the original National SRL Study, I was sometimes told - by court staff, duty counsel and others working in public...Continue reading