Sentences with phrase «by paralegal members»

The committee chair, who is elected by paralegal members, can attend Convocation but can not vote unless they are also one of the elected paralegal benchers.

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Members of Ontario's family law bench upped the volume of their objections after Bonkalo's March 2017 report recommended paralegals be allowed to provide legal services, without supervision by lawyers, in the areas of custody, access, simple child support cases, restraining orders, enforcement and simple divorces without property.

These sessions are open to paralegals of every level and are taught by Morris and other senior staff members.

However, only three members of B.C.'s 1,300 - strong bar sent paralegals to court in their stead; this may be because paralegals are less commonly used in B.C. than in a jurisdiction such as Ontario, where about 7,500 paralegals are licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

This means that as a paralegal and Associate Member of CILEx they are recognised and regulated by their professional body and can use the designatory letters ACILEx after their name.

He is a faculty member of Osgoode Hall Law School's Professional Development course on small claims court procedures, which is attended by lawyers, paralegals and law clerks.

Eisenberg is licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada and is a member of the Paralegal Society of Ontario, a member of ARCH Disability Law Centre and a member of Stanford Who's Who.

Blog posts are written by lawyers, paralegals and staff members and published on a regular basis.

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.

Our members already adhere to a strict code of practice approved by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute under their Consumer Codes Approval Scheme and they are keen that they are now recognised as Professional Paralegals and to take advantage of the additional support that membership of the PPR will bring»

After his presentation — in which he sought to play down the A2J crisis («it's not really a crisis»), the Treasurer was asked by an audience member why the Society did not permit paralegals (whom the Society regulates) to offer family legal services to the large and growing number of family litigants who could not afford legal representation.