01
May
A School for Self-Represented Litigants: A People-Centred Approach to Access to Justice in Family Law
The bilingual, open-source, and peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société has published ...
09
May
Virtual Justice
“Virtual Justice: A complex portrait of Canadian self-represented litigant experiences with virtual hearings” is the result of a year-l...
02
Feb
SRL Intake Report 2021-2023
Our latest Self-Represented Litigant (SRL) Intake Report was written by NSRLP Research Assistant Keerthi Chintapalli, with guidance and...
15
Nov
Struggling for Accommodation: Barriers to Accessibility faced by Cognitively Disabled SRLs.
This Report examines the experiences of cognitively disabled self-represented litigants (SRLs) who have requested accommodations for th...
19
Oct
SRL Intake Report 2019-2021
This report collates and analyzes data from Intake Forms completed by self-represented litigants (SRLs) from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2...
12
Mar
Pintea v Johns: An Updated Commentary
The landmark Supreme Court of Canada Pintea v Johns case decision came down in April 2017. The decision rejected the idea that SRLs and...
23
Jan
SRL Intake Report 2018/19
This Report collates and analyzes data from Intake Forms completed by SRLs from January 1st 2018 to June 30th 2019, a total of 173 resp...
09
Dec
Self-Represented Litigants & Legal Doctrines of “Vexatiousness”
In our new report from the SRL Case Law Database (the “CLD”), we explore trends in legal decisions regarding “vexatiousness”, a term th...
13
Mar
Access to Justice Annotated Bibliography
Today we release Version 6 of our popular Access to Justice Annotated Bibliography, which can be found here:
A2J Annotated Bibliograph...
14
Oct
Pintea v Johns: 18 Months Later by Kaila Scarrow & Julie Macfarlane
The landmark Supreme Court of Canada case of Pintea v Johns came down in April 2017. The decision rejected the idea that SRLs and lawye...
25
Jul
Costs Awards Against SRLs
Ashley Haines reports on substantial and punitive costs awards against self-represented litigants from our growing database.
The SRL...