The Clinic is staffed by law students under
the supervision of a family law lawyer.
Not exact matches
A program
of lawyer supervision would have no impact on the access to justice crisis in
family law, she wrote, adding that «only licensed and independent paralegals can offer meaningful competition to
lawyers.»
Members
of Ontario's
family law bench upped the volume
of their objections after Bonkalo's March 2017 report recommended paralegals be allowed to provide legal services, without
supervision by
lawyers, in the areas
of custody, access, simple child support cases, restraining orders, enforcement and simple divorces without property.
«In January 2013, a two - year pilot project was launched in the B.C. Supreme Court and the Provincial Court allowing paralegals under the
supervision of a
lawyer to appear in select locations on some
family -
law matters.