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| Additional Physical Format: | Version électronique : The justice crisis : the cost and value of accessing law. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2020 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Trevor C W Farrow; Lesley A Jacobs |
| ISBN: | 9780774863575 0774863579 |
| OCLC Number: | 1192562750 |
| Description: | xviii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1. Understanding the access to justice crisis. Prices, costs, and access to justice / Michael Trebilcock ; Measuring justice system performance in Quebec and Canada: indicators for benchmarking systems and highlighting best practices / Moktar Lamari, Pierre Noreau, and Marylène Leduc ; Public spending on access to justice: where do we go from here? / Lisa Moore and Mitchell Perlmutter -- Part 2. Experiencing everyday legal problems. The Monetary costs of everyday legal problems and expanding access to justice / Ab Currie ; How Ontarians experience the law: an examination of incidence rate, responses, and costs of legal problems / Matthew Dylag ; Truth, reconciliation, and the cost of adversarial justice / Trevor C.W. Farrow ; The costs of justice in domestic violence cases: mapping Canadian law and policy / Jennifer Koshan, Janet Mosher, and Wanda Wiegers -- Part 3. Legal services and paths to justice. Paralegals and access to justice for tenants: a case study / David Wiseman ; Court-ordered family legal information sessions in Ontario: a path to justice approach / Lesley A. Jacobs and Carolyn Carter ; The value of class actions / Catherine Piché ; Social enterprise, social innovation, and access to justice / Lorne Sossin and Devon Kapoor -- Part 4. The legal profession and meaningful access to justice. Legal culture as the key to affordable access / M. Jerry McHale, QC ; Legal fee regimes and the cost of civil justice / Herbert M. Kritzer ; Assessing client interests and process costs in a litigation risk analysis / Michaela Keet and Heather Heavin ; Regulating contingency fees: a consumer welfare perspective / Noel Semple. |
| Series Title: | Law and society series (Vancouver, C.-B.) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Trevor C.W. Farrow and Lesley A. Jacobs. |
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"The Justice Crisis is required reading for anyone who desires a just society. At once thoughtful and bold, this compendium offers insightful ideas on how we can take access to justice from slogan to reality."-Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada "Farrow and Jacobs are to be congratulated on bringing together a wealth of new empirical evidence, shining an original light on the access to justice crisis in civil and family law. The volume provides a rich source of innovative thinking about the complex issues of cost and value of access to justice, while underlining the need for better evidence to support service and system transformation."-Dame Hazel Genn, author of Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think about Going to Law "The Justice Crisis is required reading for anyone who desires a just society. At once thoughtful and bold, this compendium offers insightful ideas on how we can take access to justice from slogan to reality." -- Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Farrow and Jacobs are to be congratulated on bringing together a wealth of new empirical evidence, shining an original light on the access to justice crisis in civil and family law. The volume provides a rich source of innovative thinking about the complex issues of cost and value of access to justice, while underlining the need for better evidence to support service and system transformation. -- Dame Hazel Genn, author of Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think about Going to Law Read more...
