01 Apr Blog Our Collective Responsibility for Judicial Rudeness: Time to Press Reset April 1, 2014 By NSRLP 8 comments As a finale to our month of focus on “Listening to SRLs and including them as stakeholders”, I want to explore a legal culture that ena...Continue reading
24 Mar Blog We Need to Get Family Justice Services and A2J on to the Political Agenda: The View from British Columbia March 24, 2014 By NSRLP 1 comment I have just returned from three days in British Columbia (Victoria and Vancouver) spent talking about the SRL Phenomenon - the numbers,...Continue reading
17 Mar Blog, Listening to SRLs The Great Equalizer: Why Both Represented & Self-Represented Litigants are Asking the Same Questions about the A2J Crisis March 17, 2014 By NSRLP 4 comments We know that the experience of self-representation in our justice system is remarkably consistent. It takes enormous work and effort. ...Continue reading
03 Mar Blog, Listening to SRLs New York State introduces “SRL Navigators”: Can We Narrow Judicial Discretion on Allowing McKenzie Friends into Canadian Courtrooms? March 3, 2014 By NSRLP 2 comments Last week Justice Jonathan Lippman - Chief Judge of New York State - announced a pilot program that will allow non-lawyer “Navigators” ...Continue reading
24 Feb Blog Realizing the Pro Bono Potential of the “Third Flank”: Suggestions for What Every Lawyer Who Cares about A2J Can Do (Right Now) February 24, 2014 By NSRLP 0 comments Last week’s blog “’Lawyers do more pro bono work than any other profession”: Why Pro Bono Will Not and Can Not Save Us from the A2J Cri...Continue reading