Whether this ethical duty becomes a formal obligation may well depend on the profession's response to the
growing access to justice problem that is already widely seen as a crisis.
Yet, all the advocates of the LLLT program chatter endlessly about how it will make a significant impact on fixing
access to justice problems because LLLTs will be cheaper than lawyers, which is the sole argument in support of LLLTs.
We frankly have an
embarrassing access to justice problem and while we can continue to ignore it, we have some responsibility to our profession and to the public, who has extended to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections
So far in this discussion (after 63 posts) I haven't seen anybody refer to what the judges have to say about any of the array of various long -
standing access to justice problems.
It bears repeating that some of the GLSA legal plans are more than 40 years old, and even more importantly, these plans are being overlooked as the answer to the
American access to justice problem.
While access to justice problems don't fall into neat quadrants as they might in the technology and business worlds, there is much that can be learned from the use of data to address real needs in other sectors.
It is therefore gratifying to see a number of programs spring up around the state and the country aimed at tackling the low -
income access to justice problem, but expandable enough to address the middle - income access to justice gap.
An outspoken critic of the systemic bias against pro se litigants, she is a key member of the team that created LegalYou as the answer to the
staggering access to justice problem that has plagued middle and lower income families.
As regular readers of our column are well aware, the Cyberjustice Laboratory is a creative think - tank whose aim is to
improve access to justice problems that plague the judicial system.
In this post, I want to step back a little, and offer some thoughts on the bigger picture of which the «hearing fees» — a price charged by the provincial government for time in court — fit into the
broader access to justice problem.
The bridge
between access to justice problems and the efficacy of technology - based law problems is ignorance of: (1) the necessary impact of technology upon laws; and, (2) the impact of ever - changing economic and social circumstances upon the practice of law.
The chambers judge referred to a report released in October 2013, during the hearing of the Special Case by the Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell regarding access to justice and quoted from his finding that there is a serious
access to justice problem in Canada.
The Chief Justice's speech in Calgary, which I mentioned here last week, illustrated that despite all of our efforts to
address access to justice the problem is getting worse, not better:
For those who say there is no
such access to justice problem, then why does the percentage of self - represented litigants continue to rise, along with the number of law firms in financial distress, and increase along with the disappearance of articling positions for law students?
Lack of A2J Threatens Us All Reason number 5: we frankly have an
embarrassing access to justice problem and while we can continue to ignore it, we have some responsibility to our profession and to the public, who has extended to us as lawyers special self - regulating protections.
We have a
real access to justice problem, and the idea of lawyers holding on to inefficient ways of providing services out of self - interest is counter to what is in the interests of the public that we are supposed to serve.
This is the wrong approach to the «
access to justice problem of unaffordable legal services,» because:
Why didn't the writers take the bold step of saying that the CBA position on MDPs is wrong and that CBA's failure to push for viable MDPs at the end of the last century has only increased
the access to justice problem in this country?
The access to justice problem is an issue members of the profession should actively work to address on our own and with the input and assistance of other stakeholders.
Two major reports on access to justice were published in 2013 and, as indicated by the B.C. task forces, the CBA Futures Report and the debate over ABS, legal regulators and the legal profession are taking
the access to justice problem seriously.
The conference includes a hackathon, where students will be presented with
an access to justice problem and must come up with a technological solution.