LAG believes this narrow LASPO vision of civil legal aid needs to be superseded by one which provides wider access to justice for the many people struggling to get advice
on everyday legal problems.
Not exact matches
The results of the 2014 national survey of
Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada carried out by the Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice (CFCJ)[3] tell us that:
[3] Trevor C. W. Farrow, Ab Currie, Nicole Aylwin, Les Jacobs and Lisa Moore,
Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada: Overview Report, Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice, Toronto, 2016
Last month, as part of a five - year SSHRC funded research project exploring the costs of justice, the Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice released the first data from its national
legal problems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada&ra
legal problems survey, «Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada
problems survey, «
Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada&ra
Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada
Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada».
Canadian studies indicate that some Canadians, particularly those with fewer resources and marginalized groups, do not view the justice system as fair, accessible or reflective of them or their needs: Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, Nicole Aylwin, Les Jacobs, David Northrup and Lisa Moore,
Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada: Overview Report [2016
Everyday Legal Problems Overview], 2016 Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice, Toronto, Canada: online CFCJ http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/sites/default/files/
Everyday%20
Legal%20
Problems%20and%20the%20Cost%20of%20Justice%20in%20Canada%20-%20Overview%20Report.pdf.
The Canadian Forum
on Civil Justice (CFCJ) has released several new publications from their Cost of Justice research project, which examines the cumulative social and economic costs associated with
everyday legal problems.
Beyond the impact
on the individual,
everyday legal problems can potentially lead to considerable «knock -
on» costs to the state.
This susceptibility begins in law school and eventually has an impact
on society by affecting people who rely
on lawyers to manage their
everyday legal problems.