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Social And Economic Adversity Experienced By Canadians And Everyday Legal Problems, Ab Currie, Lisa Moore
Social And Economic Adversity Experienced By Canadians And Everyday Legal Problems, Ab Currie, Lisa Moore
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
As part of a national study on the Cost of Justice by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ), over 3,000 adults in Canada were asked about their experiences with civil and family justice problems and their views on the justice system in Canada. Additionally, survey participants were asked generally if over several years they had experienced ongoing issues with debt, finding or securing good and affordable housing or with unemployment. These specific areas were canvassed as possible indicators of larger, persistent issues related to social adversity in their lives. This paper draws on findings from the Everyday Legal Problems …
Ten Ideas For Community Based Justice, Ab Currie
Ten Ideas For Community Based Justice, Ab Currie
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Community-based legal services have long been a part of national legal services programs in countries that introduced legal aid programs in the early years of the access to justice movement. Because of inadequate funding for legal services the pressure to do more with less has been a constant in legal aid and access to justice services. This rationing of resources has driven much creativity, innovation and a wealth of ideas for improving the delivery of legal services and continues to do so. The ten ideas about community-based justice presented in this short paper are a small part of that much …
Public And Private Spending On Justice In Canada, Lisa Moore, Mitchell Perlmutter, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Public And Private Spending On Justice In Canada, Lisa Moore, Mitchell Perlmutter, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
As a ubiquitous aspect of everyday life, it should come as little surprise that legal problems have a tremendous cumulative cost on society. Assessing the cost of civil, family and criminal justice problems in Canada is a complex and multifaceted undertaking, owing in part to the number of agencies involved in the administration of justice, the various types of justice system expenses, and the intangible and ‘knock on’ costs that often result from experiencing legal problems. Further, costs can be examined in monetary, temporal, personal, physical health, mental health and other terms. The monetary costs are of course the most …
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Income Report, Lisa Moore
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Income Report, Lisa Moore
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The national “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” (Cost of Justice) survey was conducted with a random sample of 3,263 adults ages 18 years and older. 3,051 resided in households with land lines and 212 used cell phones only. The data presented in the following pages is based on the 3,051 land line calls. Weighted to the Canadian population, this represents an estimated 23,590,697 people from the ten provinces.
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Spending On Everyday Legal Problems Report, Lisa Moore
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Spending On Everyday Legal Problems Report, Lisa Moore
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The national “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” (Cost of Justice) survey was conducted with a random sample of 3,263 adults ages 18 years and older. 3,051 resided in households with land lines and 212 used cell phones only. The data presented in the following pages are based on the 3,051 land line calls. Weighted to the Canadian population, this represents an estimated 23,590,697 people from the ten provinces.
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Survey Data Report, Lisa Moore
Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Survey Data Report, Lisa Moore
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Civil and family justice problems in Canada result in financial, temporal, physical health, mental health and social costs that are often not treated with the same urgency as healthcare problems or other social problems. The “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” (Cost of Justice) survey, the flagship study for the Cost of Justice project, includes the first national legal problems survey in Canada (or elsewhere) to specifically ask participants about the costs of legal problems to their economic and social wellbeing. By measuring all costs related to experiencing civil and family justice problems, the Cost of …
Resolving Family Law Disputes – Infographic, Canadian Forum On Civil Justice
Resolving Family Law Disputes – Infographic, Canadian Forum On Civil Justice
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
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Coming Off The Bench: Self-Represented Litigants, Judges And The Adversarial Process, Jennifer Leitch
Coming Off The Bench: Self-Represented Litigants, Judges And The Adversarial Process, Jennifer Leitch
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
In 1976, Abram Chayes explained how a paradigm shift was taking place in civil litigation. Procedural innovations were linked to a series of substantive changes in the American legal order that signaled a move away from a traditional private law model of litigation toward a newer and more expansive public law model of litigation. In charting this shift, Chayes explored a whole new approach to thinking about the legal process undertaken by judges. His overall assessment was very much to the point: “our traditional concept of adjudication and the assumptions on which it is based provide an increasingly unhelpful, indeed …
Legal Secondary Consultation: How Legal Aid Can Support Communities And Expand Access To Justice, Ab Currie
Legal Secondary Consultation: How Legal Aid Can Support Communities And Expand Access To Justice, Ab Currie
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Legal secondary consultation (LSC) is an innovative mode of legal aid delivery in which a lawyer, licensed paralegal or experienced legal worker in a legal aid clinic provides one-on-one advice to a service provider in a social services agency or a community organization, assisting the provider to resolve problems for clients seeking help. The individuals experiencing problems do not become direct legal aid clients unless the LSC advisor decides on a referral to the 76 community legal clinics.