Sentences with phrase «unrepresented people make»

A more fruitful exercise would be to study how we can help unrepresented people make informed decisions whether a court proceeding is what they need to achieve what they want.

RE: «A more fruitful exercise would be to study how we can help unrepresented people make informed decisions whether a court proceeding is what they need to achieve what they want.»

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Many unrepresented people are simply unaware of many of the components that make up an ICBC injury claim.

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.

At present, the bulk of public services seem to me to be delivered at one of three points in people's involvement with the law: general public legal information delivered through seminars, workshops and pamphlets to people who are idly grazing for legal information or helping a friend; narrowly - focused legal information, advice and representation delivered to individuals at the moment of crisis, often following separation, a threat to take the children or service of process; or, detailed, concrete legal information and advice delivered to individuals who are well engaged in a proceeding, usually unrepresented by counsel, and are seeking details about specific issues, such as making or replying to an application, demanding or making disclosure or preparing for trial.

Many unrepresented people, without the advice of a plaintiff ICBC lawyer, are simply unaware of many of the components that make up an ICBC injury claim.

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.

Challenges in the field of personal injury law are making it increasingly difficult for smaller firms to take on cases, leaving more injured people unrepresented, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Elinor Shinehoft.