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“Just, most expeditious and least expensive”: the Long Road Back to a Civil Justice System
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...
“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
There has been a lot of chatter on social media about the Forest Hill neighbour dispute (Morland-Jones v. Taerk (2014 ONSC 3061)). Just...
Self-Represented Litigants (and Law Students) Are Not the Enemy
Sometimes the discourse about SRLs that emanates from some of our embattled members of the Bench – who are presently experiencing a sei...
Duty Counsel Un-Plugged: How We Need to Evolve Public Legal Services to Respond to the SRL Phenomenon
In the course of the National SRL Study, I interviewed around a dozen duty counsel in courthouses across Ontario, Alberta and British C...
Let’s Dare to Dream: Customer Service in the Courthouse of the Future?
During the course of the original National SRL Study, I was sometimes told - by court staff, duty counsel and others working in public...