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Our Collective Responsibility for Judicial Rudeness: Time to Press Reset
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...
We Need to Get Family Justice Services and A2J on to the Political Agenda: The View from British Columbia
I have just returned from three days in British Columbia (Victoria and Vancouver) spent talking about the SRL Phenomenon - the numbers,...
The Great Equalizer: Why Both Represented & Self-Represented Litigants are Asking the Same Questions about the A2J Crisis
We know that the experience of self-representation in our justice system is remarkably consistent.
It takes enormous work and effort.
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New York State introduces “SRL Navigators”: Can We Narrow Judicial Discretion on Allowing McKenzie Friends into Canadian Courtrooms?
Last week Justice Jonathan Lippman - Chief Judge of New York State - announced a pilot program that will allow non-lawyer “Navigators” ...
Realizing the Pro Bono Potential of the “Third Flank”: Suggestions for What Every Lawyer Who Cares about A2J Can Do (Right Now)
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...