Sentences with phrase «monopoly at reasonable cost»

It set out five reasons that the lawyer's monopoly over the provision of legal services depends upon the legal profession's performing all legal services covered by that monopoly at reasonable cost.

Although neither statute nor case law clearly articulates that the lawyer's monopoly over the provision of legal services depends upon the legal profession's performing all legal services covered by that monopoly at reasonable cost, I argue that such relationship is dictated by constitutional doctrine because:

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Although the Supreme Court of Canada held in Christie that a «general access to legal services in relation to court and tribunal proceedings dealing with rights and obligations» is not a fundamental aspect of the rule of law (see paras. 23 - 27), it does not follow that the legal profession can preserve its monopoly over legal services free from government regulation or control of any kind, even when, as now, it has made legal services unavailable at reasonable cost to a large majority of the population.

Lawyers» monopoly over the provision of legal services should require either, (1) that they do all the legal work covered by that monopoly and do it at reasonable cost, or else, (2) that they lose exclusive control of that monopoly.

The monopoly over the provision of legal services requires not only competent and ethically provided legal services, it also requires that all services within the scope of that monopoly be provided at reasonable cost.

(6) The existence of the legal profession's monopoly over the provision of legal services removes the incentive to bring about the innovation necessary to make legal services available at reasonable cost.

[Part 1, last week, questioned the propriety of law societies» exclusive control of their monopoly over the provision of legal services, and their prosecution of offences of «the unauthorized practice of law,» given the many reports documenting the fact that the majority of the population can not afford legal services at reasonable cost, particularly so for litigation.

(12) In other words, the fact that this problem as to the «unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost» has been a serious one for decades, and is getting worse, puts the monopoly that lawyers have over the provision of legal services in need of a shared partnership with government - supported Legal Aid organizations, and legal expense insurance programs, that will: (1) bring legal services to the middle - income and poorer people at reasonable cost; and, (2) make the constitution of Canada an honest document.

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 fact that the majority of population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost will eventually result in these solutions: (1) the Ontario government establishing a competing string of law offices providing legal services at cost, thus reducing the law society's monopoly over the provision of legal services; and, (2) the right to legal services at reasonable cost becoming a constitutional right.