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26 Nov 2020, 4:00 am
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice’s (CFCJ’s) Measuring the Impact of Legal Service Interventions project (“Measuring Impacts” project) seeks to be one of the first national studies in Canada to use a longitudinal research approach to collect data on the relationship between legal help, outcomes and impacts for justice seekers. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:00 am
Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits New York Times – Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Rachel Abrams, and David Enrich | Published: 11/9/2020 Jones Day is the most prominent firm representing President Trump and the Republican Party as they prepare to wage a legal war challenging the results of the election. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 3:00 am
The campaign’s aggressive legal posture while the presidential race remains unresolved underscored how the close margins in key states have raised the stakes for litigation over which ballots will count. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 4:00 am
As a result, there exists the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, to help “self-reps” be better litigants without lawyers, and the many other commendable “A2J agencies” (see below). [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 2:34 pm
The attorney general represents the Nation in all legal proceedings, and in other matters that affect the legal interests of the Nation; advises senior management and tribal officials; and supervises assistant attorneys general and contract attorneys. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 4:00 am
In 2019, the Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information Project (SALI) joined forces with the BC LawMatters Program and the National Self Represented Litigants Project’s Family Law in the Library Project to establish the Network to encourage cooperation between legal information providers in order to enhance access to justice. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 4:20 pm
In 2019, the Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information Project (SALI) joined forces with the BC LawMatters Program and the National Self Represented Litigants Project’s Family Law in the Library Project to establish the Network to encourage cooperation between legal information providers in order to enhance access to justice. [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 2:23 pm
It provides a good summary of the American (and eventually perhaps in European based litigation against China in an international court) the American official line. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 12:22 pm
While the West has cultivated a (self) conceit around its own capacity to robustly engage in human rights and environmental due diligence, the reality is that except for that small group of drivers of this project, the need for capacity building among members of the local legal establishments is great. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm
At roughly the same time, she also broadened her focus on gender discrimination beyond academia to litigation, as she helped to launch the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and served as the ACLU’s general counsel from 1973 until 1980. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 9:32 am
” The judge says this self-attestation is not enough to merit the extraordinary remedy of a TRO. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
Today, it is reasonable to say that often the preoccupation is with self-represented litigants, the costs for individuals and the public of civil justice, and social inclusion. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 7:32 pm
While there was some effort, after the Supreme Court decision in Kiobel (2013 , discussed in De Schutter, et al. 2012; Salomon 2012) to shift the focus of converting the United States as the principal site for the litigation of human rights claims against [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 1:59 pm
The review confirmed the majority of family law litigants do not have representation; self-represented litigants are disadvantaged compared to represented litigants, with less successful outcomes at all stages of a family law matter, whether motions, applications or trials; and the system itself is faced with challenges related to the high numbers of litigants who do not have representation. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 4:00 am
They need a national civil service for law societies to do that, the funding of which I have previously explained.[5] And, because law societies are in fact accountable to no one, they haven’t changed from what they were when created 200 years ago, i.e., no pressure—no innovation. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 8:03 am
Rosner and his frequent co-author, Gerald Markowitz, organized a group of sycophantic, lawsuit industry acolytes – both lawsuit industry consultants and lawyer – to write endorsements in a special issue in the Journal of Public Health Policy.[2] The ToxicDocs project has received a warm embrace from Rosner’s fellow travellers,[3] and perhaps more disturbing, funding, to the tune of almost half a million dollars, from the National Science Foundation.[4] The… [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 4:00 am
The 2017 decision Pintea v Johns has been heralded as a watershed moment for self-represented litigants in Canada. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 1:21 pm
It represents a streamlined method of making sure that underpaid workers receive their wages in a more prompt manner than a long agency investigation or a protracted litigation. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal A Winner on Election Day in November? [read post]
20 Jun 2020, 1:11 pm
This represents a variant of the approach of Western liberal democratic political norms that is grounded as well on notions of progress through the elimination of "false consciousness" through substantial societal disciplinary mechanisms. [read post]
