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After four years of dedicated work for NSRLP (and its predecessor, the National SRL Study), Sue Rice, our Project... read more

Despite ending data collection for the original SRL Study in December 2012, we have not stopped hearing from SRLs... read more

Bridgette's methodology was in many aspects (for example directly interviewing SRLs and court services staff) similar to our own National SRL Study.

Family litigants in the original SRL study reported spending $ 20,000, $ 30,000 and even $ 75,000, $ 100,000 on legal services before becoming a SRL.

In the last 12 weeks I have made many presentations about the results of the National SRL Study to audiences of lawyers and justice system professionals, as well as to other public («non-lawyer») audiences.

However, in her analysis of a selection of provincial Court Guides especially developed for SRLs for the 2013 National SRL Study Report, (see the Report of the Court Guides Assessment Project at Appendix I) librarian Cynthia Eagan found the reading levels of some of these materials was higher than grade 13 (using the Flesch - Kincaid test).

At this year's Conference we shared the resources of SATA with the Ministry of Justice in order to examine the results of the NSRLP's National SRL Study.

Returning to the question of whether, and how, lawyers could provide coaching in self - advocacy for SRL's, let me first put a few pertinent findings from my 2013 SRL study upfront.

The SRL study does not examine why induced seismicity would be linked to different processes in the central U.S. and western Canada.

Not exact matches

The study, «Analysis of Transportable Array (USArray) Data Shows Earthquakes are Scarce Near Injections Wells in the Williston Basin, 2008 - 2011,» will be published online February 11, 2015 and in the March / April print edition of SRL.

Co-authors of the study, «Sirolimus (SRL) Blunts Mitogen Response at Trough (C0) Levels More Than Cyclosporin (CSA) or Tacrolimus (TAC): A Safeguard for Our Many Long Term Noncompliant Kidney Transplant Patients (KTPs)» include UC San Diego School of Medicine physicians Nitin Khosla M.D., and Rodolfo Batarse, M.D., assistant professor of medicine.

Seismological Society of America > News > Journals > Call for Papers: SRL Focus Section on the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability: New Results and Future Directions

Through studying about SRL, i have come to realize that some of my most successful practices are part of SRL.

Within a few months of the end of the formal study, we created a self - complete «Intake Form» which asked for basic information — for example court, education, income, experience with counsel, access to pro bono legal services / duty counsel, use of Internet resources — from all SRLs who wanted to be a part -LSB-...]

Cynthia has worked for NSRLP ever since, first as a dedicated volunteer doing «literacy scans» of court guides and forms (see Appendix I of the SRL 2013 Study), and now as our much valued editor.

In order to reach out and encourage SRLs to participate in the US study, NSRLP Board member and former SRL Jennifer Muller has filmed a short video for «Cases Without Counsel», which is now posted on the IAALS website.

She had had a lawyer, but like many of the SRLs in the study, had run out of funds to continue.

I would also suggest that the concerns about the difficulty of some SRL's using limited services effectively is consistent with another (but different) finding of my study, namely the limited usefulness of a 30 — 45 minute summary advice session which is simply an overview of the law — this is something that many of my respondents found overwhelming and generally unhelpful.

I am an SRL who has studied, for a lifetime it seems, (as a hobby) school systems in all their überbureaucratic, self - serving glory.

What the SRLs in my study most frequently describe as their primary struggle is not basic legal knowledge, but procedural know - how, drafting (forms, pleadings and other precedents) the development of strategy and the evaluation of settlement proposals.

And the studies that do exist tend to dwell paternally on the legal needs of SRLs and would - be SRLs, rather than treat them as uniquely situated to offer good ideas for improving the structures and processes of the justice system.

There are links to information on other websites, but the platform generally tries to provide a complete resource so that people do not get lost navigating from site to site (a problem many SRLs described in the National Study: Julie).

Many SRLs in the original Research Study complained that legal language and the use of unfamiliar terms and expressions only heightened their sense of «outsider» status in the legal system — «like going as agnostic to a religious court» — as well as their ability to constructively participate.

Interviews with 253 SRL's in my recent study (http://www.representing-yourself.com/PDF/reportM15.pdf) expose the reality that despite a decade of provincial Law Societies drafting new rules of professional conduct on limited scope retainers (LSR's) or unbundled legal services — when lawyers provide services on an hourly basis for specific contracted tasks — lawyers who regularly offer their clients LSR's are still about as rare as a shooting star on a cloudy night.

The NCSC study was confined to civil cases only, and, in family court cases, it is not uncommon for between 60 and 80 percent to involve at least one SRL at some point in the litigation.

The National Self - Represented Litigants Study described an alarming range of serious impacts on individual SRLs, that commonly included health problems, long - term anxiety and depression, social isolation and difficulty maintaining employment.

Many of these SRLs are as eager to share the story of their experiences as our original study respondents.

However my research study of SRLs suggests some worrying aspects to the pro bono culture which we should be willing to explore.

Julie MacFarlane's study confirmed that SRLs concluded there was a «secret language» being used in the proceedings which was incomprehensible to those outside of the legal fraternity leading to feelings of exclusion.

The US study added an additional question to the Canadian interview protocol to track what SRLs say about the impact of representing themselves on their relationships with their children.

Certainly the phenomenon of former SRLs helping current SRLs deserves further study.

Therefore, I think it is of more assistance in managing the SRL phenomenon to closely examine not just what happens to SRLs, but to carefully study what forces are in play when SRLs are not in the courtroom.

Despite closing the formal SRL National Study in January 2013, we continue to hear every day from SRLs all... read more

The summary of parallel findings is illustrated below with verbatim quotes from a group of SRLs — one from each of the four states in the study — who spoke at a meeting of the IAALS Honoring Families Initiative Advisory Board in Denver on August 21st where the preliminary findings were presented by the US research team (Natalie Knowlton, Corina Gerety and Logan Cornett).

Julie and Sue were in Denver two weeks ago with the US research team to hear the initial findings discussed by their Advisory Board and comments from four SRLs, each representing one of the states included in the study (Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts and Tennessee).

Study 4 provided extended validity evidence as SRLTAS scores were examined with other representative SRL scores.