The millions of dollars we spend on public legal education produces correspondingly valuable
resources, without a doubt, but those
resources can not equip litigants to comfortably and competently manage the system — especially those unable to
devote themselves to the full - time study of legal processes, those whose first language is not English or French, or those with
cognitive or functional impairments — and, as a result, whenever we talk about litigants without counsel, the conversation inevitably veers toward the delays, costs and other inconveniences such litigants impose on court and counsel.