Sentences with phrase «unaffordable legal»

If matters remain as they are now, the unaffordable legal services problem will never be solved.

In other words, the management structure of law societies has been obsolete for as many decades as the unaffordable legal services problem has existed.

(1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (SSRN, August 6, 2016); and a summary posted on Slaw, August 9, 2016, «A2J: Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»;

Without such an institution providing permanently developing expertise and advice, they have no capacity to solve complex problems like the unaffordable legal services problem.

Then when governments are forced to publically hold law societies to account for a lack of progress in solving the unaffordable legal services problem, they will have a very good answer — a solution is in progress.

See: «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services Problem — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service.

And as the unaffordable legal services problem grows smaller, the NSRLP should willingly evolve to provide the legal profession's counterpart to the family doctor's sorting and triage service for the medical profession's sophisticated infrastructure of mutually interdependent support services — the NSRLP staff explaining how troubles contain legal problems, that very often are not apparent to the average person, and then finding the right lawyer and legal service for every person asking for its help.

Just as a bicycle can not be made to perform like a motor vehicle by adding a motor or any other improvements, the problem of unaffordable legal services can not be solved by adding competition or any other improvement to the current method of producing legal services.

Therefore the unaffordable legal services problem is inevitable.

2 Mistakes: (1) lawyers write the solutions to the unaffordable legal services problem, but lawyers don't have the necessary expertise (including experts in law office management), therefore they don't understand the cause of the problem; and, (2) the cause is the method of delivering legal services; not the absence of the right improvement to the method.

See: Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions.

[4] But getting equal «bencher - time and devotion» applied to solving the problem of unaffordable legal services won't happen until we demand it.

It provides a «support services solution» to the unaffordable legal services problem: «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (open access SSRN pdf.

The problem of unaffordable legal advice services is inevitable only if lawyers want it to be inevitable, and only as long as governments and public opinion allow it to remain.

; and, (2) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (section 11, pp. 81 - 124; August 29, 2017, SSRN, pdf.).

I have previously advocated that Canada's law societies are badly in need of a civil service - type national institution to advise them; see: «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem.»

The unaffordable legal services problem afflicts the majority of the population.

(4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem» (SSRN, September 5, 2015);

Law societies don't have such fear because Benchers are part - time amateurs, without risk of suffering personal loss to the problem of unaffordable legal services.

The following article explains how to pay for it, and provides many other reasons why it is badly needed: «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (SSRN, August 28, 2017; pdf.).

And therefore, the solution to the currently massively damaging «access to justice» problem of unaffordable legal services, is to make CanLII as good a national support - service as LAO LAW is for Ontario's legal aid lawyers — see: (1) my Slaw blog of Oct. 24th; (2) my Comment to Monica Goyal's Slaw post of Nov. 25th: «Access to Justice: Courts and Technology: A Twitterchat»; and, (3) my Comment to Monica Goyal's Slaw post of Nov. 4th: «Innovation and the Legal Profession: A Twitter Chat.»

They prove that our law societies can solve the unaffordable legal services problem.

«Amateurs» because the major problems, like self - represented litigants overwhelming court resources, and the unaffordable legal services problem in general, are beyond lawyers» expertise, and law societies do not retain that necessary expertise.

See: «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing Their Management Structure Defects — A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» posted on Slaw, September 25, 2015, at: http://www.slaw.ca/2015/09/25/a2j-preventing-the-abolition-of-law-societies-by-curing-their-management-structure-defects/

Their major problems, such as the current, extremely misery - causing national unaffordable legal services problem, require expertise that lawyers themselves do not have.

The A2J, «unaffordable legal services problem,» will never be solved until law societies provide the necessary leadership that develops the support services that will provide the practice of law with the necessary cost - efficiency that will make legal advice services affordable.

Do it before CanLII has to create it, because Canada's law societies desperately need an answer to «the unaffordable legal services problem.»

However, perhaps a prosecution of a law society under Criminal Code s. 122 for its failure to perform its duties in regard to access to justice by at least trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem would fail because, even if an official knows that a decision does affect his / her personal interests, there is no offence, «if the decision is made honestly and in a genuine belief that it was a proper exercise of his jurisdiction.

Now, their much greater public duty to solve the problem of unaffordable legal services, dictates that they shouldn't.

Keywords: access to justice, centralized legal research, legal research, support services, the unaffordable legal services problem, Legal Aid, LAO LAW

This same technology can create several other support services, which together, would solve «the unaffordable legal services problem»: the majority of population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost.

Law societies are the effective cause of the «unaffordable legal services problem,» and no one else.

Our self - governing status at risk; see: «Alternative Business Structures Proposals or Solving the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» on the, «Access to Justice in Canada» blog, March 6, 2015: http://accesstojusticeincanada.blogspot.ca/

ABS's v. Unaffordable legal services problems, what ifs: the former has been quickly provided a published LSUC Discussion Paper (Sept. 24/14), but the latter has been ignored for decades.

The same causes are those that have caused and continued the unaffordable legal services problem.

See: «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (SSRN pdf.

Law societies don't serve the public interest as long as they don't try to solve «the unaffordable legal services problem.»

Law societies have caused a great increase in self - represented litigants (SRLs) by not trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem.

An example is legal research as done in the law office, in contrast to the way legal research can be done in a highly specialized, high volume support service such as LAO LAW; see: Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions» (sections 8 - 10 (pp. 41 - 81)(SSRN, August, 2017, pdf.

But unfortunately and nevertheless, a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy is being used to cope with the unaffordable legal services problem.

As I have written before (on the SSRN), it is this third duty that law societies refuse to accept — unaffordable legal services is their problem to solve, and it is their fault that it exists.

I've written several articles having the theme that instead of offering the residents of Canada alternative legal services, its law societies should be trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem, i.e., that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost.

And law societies don't have a government - type civil service to provide the necessary continuing expertise for solving such problems as unaffordable legal services.

(3) «Access to Justice Support Services or Government Intervention — A Solution for Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services Problem» (67 pages);

These programs provide some improvement in access to justice and legal information, but far from enough to provide a solution to the unaffordable legal services problem.

So, to avoid being too short of time and stress - endurance, benchers don't tackle difficult problems like unaffordable legal services.

Ken you say, «instead of offering the residents of Canada alternative legal services, its law societies should be trying to solve the unaffordable legal services problem, i.e., that the majority of the population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost.»

But the creation of LAO LAW's methods, like the unaffordable legal services problem, are not legal problems.

Therefore it is impossible for such law firms to achieve the necessary cost - efficiency to solve the problem of unaffordable legal services.

（ See: Ken Chasse, Access to Justice - Innovations for the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem, inter alia: The Technology of Centralized Legal Research, available for free download from the Social Science Research Network.