SRL Resources
A Guide to Costs for Self-Represented Litigants in Canada
Going to court can be expensive, and, depending on how long or complicated your case is, you or the other party might have large financ...
What You Need to Know About Affidavits
An affidavit is a form of giving written evidence, sworn under oath. Just as when a person is on the witness stand in court, the depone...
Ordering a Court Transcript
Last year the NSRLP published a research report highlighting the inconsistencies in ordering court transcripts across Canadian province...
Guide for Self-Represented Litigants with Disabilities
We hear all too often from self-represented litigants who are also persons with disabilities (PWDs) - these litigants are forced to dea...
Reading and Understanding Case Reports
A Guide for Self-Represented Litigants
By Margarita Dvorkina & Julie Macfarlane
Why We Publish SRL Primers
One of the NSRL...
Provincial Resources for SRLs
Click here to view our regularly updated Provincial Resources for SRLs.
If you have a suggestion for an additional physical or onlin...
“My Learned Friend”: Building Constructive Working Relationships Between Self-Represented Litigants and Opposing Counsel
We know from our research that many SRLs will find that the other side in the dispute is represented by a lawyer, for some or all of th...
The McKenzie Friend: Choosing and Presenting a Courtroom Companion
NSRLP is proud to present its latest SRL guide, The McKenzie Friend: Choosing and Presenting a Courtroom Companion written by Judith Da...
Mindfulness Training and Stress-Reduction for SRLs
We are pleased and proud to announce another new NSRLP resource written and developed specifically for SRLs. "What Can Mindfulness Trai...
The CanLII Primer
The NSRLP is proud to launch our latest resource for SRLs
NSRLP CanLII Primer V1 English
NSRLP CanLII Primer V1 French
The Can...
Working with SRLs: Ideas and Suggestions from the Bench
A small Working Group of judges, representing jurisdictions across Canada, and who hear SRLs on a regular basis in their courtrooms hav...
Settlement Smarts for SRLs
Julie Macfarlane with the help of research assistants Hannah Bahmanpour and Katrina Trask has created a “how to” primer to enable SRLs ...