The ranters include Billie Tarascio, Catherine Sanders Reach, Dan Lear, Chad Burton, Chas Rampenthal, Mary Juetten, Joshua Lenon, Patrick Palace, and Janet Welch, who talk about regulation, data, LLLTs, and the other aspects that make up the
complex problem of access to justice.
While
the problem of access to justice has more than one cause (and so must be addressed in more than one way), the cost of lawyers seems increasingly to be part of the problem.
As Chief Justice McLachlin writes in the foreword to the Cromwell Report, «
the problem of access to justice is not a new one.
And given
the problems of access to justice, which include the expense associated with pursuing claims, creating unnecessary hurdles to assessing liability is not something the Court ought to do.
It presents a good account of
the problem of access to justice and the most promising directions in which to look for solutions.
The costs and delays in this case are symptomatic of
the problems of access to justice.
This is
the problem of access to justice in Canada and we have not yet figured out which are the most appropriate tools to fix the problem.
2) The LPP wasn't proposed to solve
the problem of access to justice, only the problem of routes to licensing.
More than just a buzzword, innovation is of paramount importance in the search for a solution to
the problem of access to justice.
This is an innovative idea, and which I support (subject to the regressiveness point noted above), but I submit that if the best solution the profession can come up with to
the problem of access to justice is to effectively say «here, work with a bunch of people who have no experience», then our general (lack of) standing in the eyes of the public is richly deserved.
The problems of access to justice are not solved by ABS; they ultimately are exacerbated.
Yet one would think that, unlike some of the more abstract problems (say that of public debt and the appropriate level of government spending) which might not affect anyone in particular (important though they are important for us collectively) and so attract few people's attention,
the problems of access to justice not only impact real people every single day, but may indeed affect anyone at some point in one's life, whether personal (say because of a divorce) or business.
But if more politicians were aware of how serious
the problems of access to justice are, they might just have been doing more about them.
In an ideal world a viable solution for
the problem of access to justice for individuals trapped between collapsing legal aid and stubbornly high lawyers» fees would be legal expenses insurance
The former SCC justice and students wholeheartedly agreed that
the problem of access to justice can only be dealt with meaningfully when stakeholders put their fear of change aside, begin to communicate with one another and commit to funding creative solutions.
I'm simply suggesting that
the problems of access to justice may be addressed in better ways than just assuming if we increase law graduates the problem would resolve itself.