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The Shifting Frontiers Of Law: Access To Justice And Underemployment In The Legal Profession, Nandini Ramanujam, Alexander Agnello
The Shifting Frontiers Of Law: Access To Justice And Underemployment In The Legal Profession, Nandini Ramanujam, Alexander Agnello
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The article examines two interrelated issues attracting attention from the legal academy, the profession, and policy makers: i) the crisis of access to justice among ordinary Canadians, and ii) the increasing number of qualified and underemployed lawyers. This article sets out to understand the interrelated factors underlying these two trends, and explores long-term, accessible solutions to address the misalignment between the supply of underemployed law graduates and a demand for affordable legal services. In response to these twin problems, we examine how legislative reform, open source networks, and the automation of legal work can allow lawyers to create more cost-effective …
Effecting A Culture Shift—An Empirical Review Of Ontario’S Summary Judgment Reforms, Brooke Mackenzie
Effecting A Culture Shift—An Empirical Review Of Ontario’S Summary Judgment Reforms, Brooke Mackenzie
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Lawyers and policymakers in Canada frequently discuss the need for reforms to increase access to civil justice, but concrete efforts to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our justice system are few and far between. Unfortunately, even when reforms are implemented, measures are rarely put in place to assess whether the reforms were effective. Ontario’s Civil Justice Reform Project inspired a package of amendments to Rules of Civil Procedure in 2010 but, aside from anecdotal reports, little is known about whether they achieved their desired effects. This paper presents an empirical analysis of all reported summary judgment decisions in Ontario …