Sentences with phrase «unrepresented litigants in person»

One judge spoke of the «shocking» rise in unrepresented litigants in person.

Reflecting widespread concerns over detainees» access to legal help, one judge spoke of the «shocking» rise in unrepresented litigants in person.

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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.

Sam Glover: I've heard that something like 75 to 85 % of family court litigants are unrepresented so it would make sense that there's almost a crisis or maybe there is a crisis in family law where people really need more help and this seems like probably the only realistic way to get it to them.

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?

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.

One can understand the frustration of judges when bundles are badly prepared / late / missing, but save in the most affluent of cases the preparation of bundles will often be onerous and time - consuming particularly in cases involving litigants in person (where the respondent, if legally represented, now has to prepare the bundle if the applicant is unrepresented).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

He noted that there has been «a significant increase in the number of litigants in person» due in part to the retrenchment in state expenditure and the relatively high cost of legal fees, and suggested «introducing a more inquisitorial form of process in civil proceedings where both or at least one party is unrepresented.»

As a result, law is less readily understood, and therefore less respected by the people it is supposed to serve, especially so by the unconscionably high percentages of unrepresented litigants in our courts.

The obvious purpose is to bring home to the now unrepresented litigant the fact that she is required to give notice to the court and other parties to the litigation that she has either appointed alternate counsel or will be acting in person and that failure to do so can result in the court dismissing her proceeding or striking out her defence.