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Let’s Make and Keep Some New Year Resolutions about Access to Justice
Over the past 12 months, there has been extensive study, analysis, and debate about the state of access to justice in Canada – verdict,...
Providing Legal Services in a Coaching Model: the What, Why, and How
Returning to the question of whether, and how, lawyers could provide coaching in self-advocacy for SRL’s, let me first put a few pertin...
Seriously? Lawyers Coaching SRLs in Self-Advocacy?
Much of what I heard from SRLs in my 2011-12 study – and continue to hear in the mail we receive daily at the National Self-Represented...
Fire in the Hole: Why Every Lawyer Needs to Care About Access to Justice
In the last 12 weeks I have made many presentations about the results of the National SRL Study to audiences of lawyers and justice sys...
Bergen v Sharpe and SRL Costs: The Long and Short of It
The furor on Twitter which has accompanied the publication of Justice Price’s decision this week in Bergen v Sharpe reflects the deep a...