For the most part, lawmakers have been welcoming of Litigation Finance as a means to enable
parties access to the justice system.
Not exact matches
Email and fax are still actively used by participants in the
justice system to circulate these documents, so the appearance of those document on websites (court, CanLII, news organizations or other) merely expands the accessibility and contributes
to the probability that it will be seen by someone without a direct connection
to a
party without direct
access to the original.
On the one hand, this gave
parties with limited resources
access to the machinery of the
justice system, knowing that their legal fees were likely
to be reimbursed at the end, win or lose.
In addition
to the economic, social and cultural situation described above, the historical distrust of the Aboriginal community against the police and the
justice system, as well as perceived racism and discrimination within the State
party's institutions, create further barriers for Aboriginal women
to access justice.
But what I can say is that is that if we have reached the point that our
justice system is so broken that we have
to resort
to the incarceration of family litigants, based on the subjective assessment of a single
justice who has clearly formed strong opinions about the culpability of the
parties, we have a very big problem that should be alarming all
access to justice advocates.