Sentences with phrase «on unrepresented litigants»

Latest on unrepresented litigants in the Ottawa Citizen.

In 1998 the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Unrepresented Litigants did a detailed study on this subject entitled Report on Pro Se Litigants.

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«In some courts, on some days, I am told, unrepresented litigants are up to 40 of the cases,» McLachlin told a Canadian Bar Association audience.

If banning ODR is warranted because 13 % of litigants do not own a computer, then should we not bar lawyers from pleading since the percentage of unrepresented litigants is more than four times higher than the number of individuals on the wrong side of the digital divide?

When the justice system is splitting at the seams, students can't find jobs, unrepresented litigants are clogging courts and new competitors are emerging to eat lawyers» lunches, the law society focuses on civility.

[30] It must be obvious to the mother, even as an unrepresented litigant, that the time deadlines imposed at the case management meetings for the filing of affidavits and briefs and concluding cross examinations are significant and can not be casually disregarded on a whim.

(This is certainly the experience of many of the unrepresented litigants discussed in Macfarlane's research and the Canadian Bar Association's recent report on access to justice.)

At the conclusion of the «in court» part of a trial or a sentencing process involving unrepresented litigants, the presiding judge takes on additional responsibilities.

I went back into law practice, practicing family law and mediation and about 12 years later, it's funny how good ideas sometimes take, have a long latency period, I was serving on an ABA committee that was studying unrepresented litigants and the findings, this was in Arizona, the findings of the researchers commissioned by the ABA, were that this was an exploding phenomenon of people representing themselves but they didn't do so well.

... costs borne by society at large include: costs associated with delays in court and administrative proceedings; increased court operation costs attributable to unrepresented litigants and accused; and, more broadly, costs associated with legal problems that are not resolved in an acceptable manner (including increased health care costs, increased social assistance costs and so on).

Do the numbers of self - represented litigants, for example, look about the same in Canada as in the US, which is somewhere around 70 - ish percent of people, I think, depending on the type of matter, are unrepresented?

Much of this «sharp lawyering» against unrepresented litigants goes unreported and uncommented on, and the reason is elementary: most unrepresented parties lack the legal sophistication and knowledge to understand that opposing counsel has treated them vexatiously, in a manner that would be in clear breach of the Rules of Professional Conduct if experienced by fellow Members of the Bar.

Many courts also offer training to judges on dealing with 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.

Perhaps the strangest panel was The Unstable Pro Se Litigant: Strategies for Ethically Dealing with the Difficult Unrepresented Litigant, on the dangers of allowing regular people to come into court.

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

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Whatever the cause and impact of unrepresented litigants on the civil justice system may be, I am of the view that the civil justice system must exist to serve members of the public — whether represented or not.

The programs can be found on CourtHelp, the Unified Court System's website for unrepresented litigants.

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.

The report traverses many topics on the reasons why change is needed, including the growth of pro bono and unrepresented litigants, increase in poverty and legal illiteracy and increasing complexity of the legal system.