Sentences with phrase «litigants project»

[iii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.
Projects such as the National Self - Represented Litigants Project (the NSRLP) would have no purpose if the problem did not exist.
This national database is published by the National Self - Represented Litigants Project led by Dr. Julie Macfarlane.
The ethical approach to the A2J problem is first to determine if the problem can be solved, and if clearly it can not be solved, only then to engage in programs such as: the law societies» «alternative legal services»; [5] «Access to Justice Week»; an A2J committee; and, comparable efforts such as the NSRLP (the National Self - Represented Litigants Project).
But, if you or those benchers and law professors had a close family member who had a serious legal problem, would you be content to send them to programs such as: the law societies» «alternative legal services»; the NSRLP (National Self - Represented Litigants Project); or the Canadian Bar Association's «For the Public» webpage?
It's all part of a collaboration involving the National Self - represented Litigants Project and the Canadian College of Health Science and Technology that will include 10 - minute massages offered by students in the registered massage therapist program.
Are you familiar with «The CanLII Primer» from the National Self - Represented Litigants Project?
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project is headed by University of Windsor prof Julie Macfarlane.
(4) «Welcoming Legal Aid Ontario's New Funding — and Asking Some Important Questions» by The National Self - Represented Litigants Project blog, June 16, 2015, at: http://representingyourselfcanada.com/2015/06/16/welcoming-legal-aid-ontarios-new-funding-and-asking-some-important-questions/.
[6] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs; family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution; public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.
Today, the National Self - represented Litigants project released a report on the experience of self - represented litigants in regards to summary judgment motions brought in their cases.
[vii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.
National Self - Represented Litigants Project Blog Ontario Family Legal Services Review Offers Opportunity for Legal Profession to Show the Public it is Listening — and Cares
While some lawyers have been coaching clients informally for years, the goal of this project — which is the brainchild of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project — is to formalize and expand this model.
She is currently on leave, having received a fellowship from the Law Foundation of Ontario to work on a legal coaching initiative with the National Self - Represented Litigants Project.
Those interested in valuable empirical analysis of analogous unmet needs should read The National Self - Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants Final Report May 2013 by Professor Macfarlane at http://www.representing-yourself.com/doc/report.pdf
The National Database of Professionals Assisting SRLs has a two-fold purpose, according to the National Self - Represented Litigants Project:
«Tracking the Continuing Trends of the Self - Represented Litigants Phenomenon: Data from the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, 2014 - 2015» provides an analysis of one year's worth of intake data (March 2014 - March 2015) from 69 SRL respondents.
Runner up: National Self - Represented Litigants Project Blog.
This caught the eye of Julie Macfarlane, professor at the University of Windsor and director of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, who arranged for the document to be reviewed and commented open by a number of the self - represented individuals who have been involved in the NSRLP in the past.
In the summer of 2015, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project distributed Boyd's guide to a number of SLRs previously involved in its work.
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) is committed to advancing understanding of the challenges and hard choices facing the very large numbers of Canadians who come to court without counsel.
The Self - Represented Litigant Legal Coaching Class: Dayna Cornwall, The National Self - Represented Litigants Project
A big part of our focus at the National Self - Represented Litigants Project since 2013 has been using every possible... read more
Dr. Julie Macfarlane, Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Author of The New Lawyer and Director of Canada's Self - Represented Litigants Project
This trend is having a wide - ranging impact on the justice system, as documented by the National Self - Represented Litigants Project and the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) has documented a great deal of impatience, exasperation and intolerance towards self - represented litigants, and those labelled vexatious likely fare worse.
National Self - Represented Litigants Project director Dr. Julie Macfarlane just declared that our CJC challenge is necessary, and another five professors at major law schools also contacted me offering support.
This publication from the National Self - Represented Litigants Project is a guide to the use of the freely available online database of case law and legislation from the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) of which I am the Director has been extremely concerned — and made this concern clear — for many years about the process for reviewing and adjudicating complaints brought against a member of the judiciary by a member of the public.
The University of Windsor law school and the National Self - represented Litigants Project told Donald Best's story on their website article» The client most lawyer fear — and won't represent at any price».
The National Self Represented Litigants Project blog has this post on the everyday real costs of family litigation.
Today the National Self - Represented Litigants Project is launching a project five months in the making — the National Database... read more
In a bid to ease the stress of representing yourself in court, the national self - represented litigants project has a...
The Family Law Coaching Project is a partnership among the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) Windsor, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project.
-LSB-...] Julie Macfarlane and her colleagues at the National Self - Represented Litigants Project found shocking results in their studies of Summary Judgments against -LSB-...]
The Canadian (though seemingly focused mainly on Ontario) equivalent, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) seeks to serve both constituencies.
See the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and their Access to Justice Blog and Cost of Justice project, for example, as well as the work of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP).
The blog of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project funded by the University of Windsor Faculty of Law has a recent guest post on the role that Canadian law libraries can play to help SRLs.
Enter the Self - Represented Litigants Project (Dr. Julie Macfarlane, «The National Self - Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting... [more]
Therefore, far better for an existing national service like the NSRLP (National Self - Represented Litigants Project) to evolve to provide such a service.
SLAW readers might be interested in reading the National Self - Represented Litigants Project's new resource on the McKenzie Friend — «Choosing and Presenting a Courtroom Companion» (https://representingyourselfcanada.com/2016/03/24/launching-nsrls-latest-guide-the-mckenzie-friend/).
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) has published Version 5 of its Access to Justice Annotated Bibliography.
The National Self - Represented Litigants Project focuses squarely on easing access - to - justice for SRLs, and maintains a fairly robust resource library.
They were invited to take part by the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, headed by University of Windsor law professor Julie MacFarlane.
[12] «Access To Justice All - Star: Victoria Foster» (May 6, 2015), online: National Self - Represented Litigants Project < https://representingyourselfcanada.com/2015/05/06/access-to-justice-all-star-victoria-foster/ >.
[16] J. Macfarlane, «Unbundling «Unbundling»: Separating the Myths from the Realities» (April 11, 2016), online: National Self - Represented Litigants Project < https://representingyourselfcanada.com/2016/04/11/unbundling-unbundling-separating-the-myths-from-the-realities/ >.
We also heard from Dr. Julie Macfarlane of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, based at the University of Windsor law school.
Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justice.
[3] J. Macfarlane, «Don't Leave Me, Please Help Me, But Do it Differently: A Plea to the Bar», (2016), online: The National Self - Represented Litigants Project Blog < http://representingyourselfcanada.com/dont-leave-me-please-help-me-but-do-it-differently-a-plea-to-the-bar/ >.
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