Sentences with phrase «as unrepresented litigants»

Providing them with solid legal information up front will benefit not only those who don't have legal representation but the whole court system as unrepresented litigants will be better able to manage their cases.

[30] It must be obvious to the mother, even as an unrepresented litigant, that the time deadlines imposed at the case management meetings for the filing of affidavits and briefs and concluding cross examinations are significant and can not be casually disregarded on a whim.

Not exact matches

It has to be that way because of the size of the damage the problem is inflicting upon the population and upon our courts, so clogged as they are by unrepresented litigants that we are in danger of becoming a legally dysfunctional society.

In terms of the rise in unrepresented litigants, the province has made more legal information available online, as has the LSS, the spokesperson explains.

[30] Those unrepresented parties are at a huge disadvantage because, among other reasons, many judges require self - represented litigants to perform as if they were lawyers; if they do not, they are denied the relief they request.

As a result, despite the inconveniences enuring to the mutual discomfort of bench and bar, I am hard pressed to conclude that there is anything fundamentally wrong with the growing presence of unrepresented litigants; the situation is infelicitous, to be sure, but not iniquitous.

Unrepresented litigants are at an all - time high, the costs of resolving a matter through the courts are seen as being oppressive and the delays from incident to resolution are long.

As I mentioned in my comment, the vexatious litigant is the extreme example of the self represented / unrepresented litigant.

Do the numbers of self - represented litigants, for example, look about the same in Canada as in the US, which is somewhere around 70 - ish percent of people, I think, depending on the type of matter, are unrepresented?

For example, integrating the Thesaurus into our Clearinghouse and Inventory as a public search tool would allow users to search for «unrepresented litigants» or «pro se litigants» and have both of those synonyms redirected to the term documents are indexed under, «self - represented litigants».

... It does require that the trial judge treat the litigant fairly and attempt to accommodate the unrepresented litigants» unfamiliarity with the process so as to permit them to present their case.»

«Fairness does not demand that the unrepresented litigant be able to present his case as effectively as a competent lawyer.

http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/delivery/downloads/bostontaskforce.pdf Among their findings was: In some types of matters unrepresented litigants do not obtain results as favorable as...

It's hard to get buy - in from the government — Ontario is focused on how to help unrepresented litigants in court as opposed to «what the hell kind of system do we have that we're sending people to court that can't afford a lawyer,» Huddart says.

The case is another example of the «serious challenges» posed by unrepresented litigants as the courts try to ensure they're treated fairly yet uphold the rules of the court, says Toronto lawyer Harvin Pitch.

I am also an unrepresented litigant,, one of the things that MUST happen in order for justice to actually return to the system, is the system must be open and available to all,, as a right.

This program brings volunteer lawyers into Chambers, where they act as «amicus curiae» and help the court understand the issues related and the positions taken by unrepresented litigants.

She serves as a certified mediator through the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, and she has mediated small claims, landlord - tenant, and custody / visitation disputes among unrepresented litigants in court.

Accordingly, the trial judge must exercise discretion in determining the amount of assistance to provide the unrepresented litigant in order that the litigant receives a fair hearing, as does the other party.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

As the Ontario Court of Appeal stated in Davids v. Davids, [1999] O.J. No. 3930 at para. 36 and repeated again in College of Optometrists of Ontario v. SHS Optical Ltd., 2008 ONCA 685 at para. 57: «Fairness does not demand that the unrepresented litigant be able to present his case as effectively as a competent lawyeAs the Ontario Court of Appeal stated in Davids v. Davids, [1999] O.J. No. 3930 at para. 36 and repeated again in College of Optometrists of Ontario v. SHS Optical Ltd., 2008 ONCA 685 at para. 57: «Fairness does not demand that the unrepresented litigant be able to present his case as effectively as a competent lawyeas effectively as a competent lawyeas a competent lawyer.

RBC lawyers in New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Toronto, and London volunteered a record 1,020 hours of pro bono time in the past year by assisting unrepresented litigants in civil matters, acting as designated representatives for unaccompanied minor children, assisting cancer patients with legal rights, and assisting foster parents with the adoption of older youths.

As for family law, the paper notes that the Cooperative, an ABS with a social mission, has not been able to halt the massive increase in unrepresented litigants arising from the legal aid cuts of 2013 despite being one of the largest providers of family law services.

As a result, law is less readily understood, and therefore less respected by the people it is supposed to serve, especially so by the unconscionably high percentages of unrepresented litigants in our courts.