Sentences with phrase «help unrepresented litigants»

Given the numbers, Macfarlane is calling for some assistance to help unrepresented litigants respond to summary judgment motions.

Patrick Reynolds, the 2013 Pro Bono Net and Montana Legal Services Association 2013 AmeriCorps VISTA, reports on the September 11th, 2013 LSNTAP webinar on the use of technology to help unrepresented litigants.

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.

For this first course, Parker decided to focus on helping unrepresented litigants answer a complaint.

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Reflecting widespread concerns over detainees» access to legal help, one judge spoke of the «shocking» rise in unrepresented litigants in person.

For example, it quotes (page 13) percentages of unrepresented litigants, which percentages ABSs can not help to alter.

Sam Glover: I've heard that something like 75 to 85 % of family court litigants are unrepresented so it would make sense that there's almost a crisis or maybe there is a crisis in family law where people really need more help and this seems like probably the only realistic way to get it to them.

The majority of low and moderate income people go without legal help, and the nationwide number of unrepresented litigants keeps rising.

(2) Courts are clogged with unrepresented litigants; judges» having to help such unrepresented litigants contradicts a judge's appearance of impartiality when one party is represented by counsel and the other is not.

Neither the judge nor the judicial assistant can give an unrepresented litigant legal advice, practice tips or help in writing court papers.

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.

When: First and Third Tuesdays from 10:00 am — 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm Where: Civil Law Self - Help Center, Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Ave. Volunteer attorneys are needed to provide brief consultations to unrepresented litigants seeking advice regarding small claims issues.

When: Every Wednesday from 10:00 am — 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm Where: Civil Law Self - Help Center, Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Ave. Volunteer attorneys are needed to provide brief consultations to unrepresented litigants with landlord / tenant issues.

These free and easy to use programs have helped hundreds of thousands of low income unrepresented litigants prepare their court forms.

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.

The Access to Justice Program employs a range of resources including Help Centers, volunteer attorney and other volunteer programs to carry out its mission to serve unrepresented litigants in all New York courts.

The Housing Court's Volunteer Lawyers Program offers free Continuing Legal Education (CLE) certified training to attorneys who agree to volunteer in the Court's Help Centers by giving unrepresented litigants legal advice and information.

«What I'd like to see,» one lawyer said, «is a lot more of them go down to family court and help out some of the unrepresented litigants there.