Michael Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin

Middle Income Access to Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Middle Income Access to Justice presents a variety of innovative solutions, from dispute resolution process reforms to the development of non-lawyer forms of assistance and new methods for funding legal expenses

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 151mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612686
• ISBN-10: 1442612681
• Artikelnr.: 36129672

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Trebilcock is a university professor emeritus of law and economics at the University of Toronto. Anthony Duggan holds the Honourable Frank H. Iacobucci Chair in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
List of Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
Michael Trebilcock (University of Toronto), Anthony Duggan (University of
Toronto), and Lorne Sossin (Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School)
Part 2: Defining the Problem – What are the Unmet Legal Needs?
Chapter 1: Caught in the Middle: Income, Justiciable Problems and the Use
of Lawyers
Pascoe Pleasance (University College London) and Nigel J. Balmer
(University College London)
Chapter 2: The Ontario Civil Needs Project: A Comparative Analysis of the
2009 Survey Data
Jamie Baxter, Michael Trebilcock, and Albert Yoon (University of Toronto)
Part 3: “Front-End” Proactive Solutions
Chapter 3:Front-End Strategies for Improving Consumer Access to Justice
Anthony Duggan (University of Toronto) and Iain Ramsey (University of Kent)
Part 4: Non-Lawyer Forms of Assistance
Chapter 4: Opportunities and Challenges: Non-Lawyer Forms of Assistance in
Providing Access to Justice for Middle-Income Earners
Russell Engler (New England Law)
Chapter 5: Middle Income Access to Civil Justice: Implications of Proposals
for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales
Roger Smith
Part 5: Access to Lawyers
Chapter 6: Should Legal Services be Unbundled?
Samreen Beg and Lorne Sossin
Chapter 7: Money Isn’t Everything: Understanding Moderate Income
Households’ Use of Lawyers’ Services
Rebecca Sandefur (American Bar Foundation)
Chapter 8: Legal Services Plans: Crucial Time Access to Lawyers and the
Case for a Public-Private Partnership
Paul Vayda (CAW Legal Services Plan) and Stephen Ginsberg (CAW Legal
Services Plan)
Part 6: Reforming the Dispute Resolution Process
Chapter 9: Reforming Family Dispute Resolution in Ontario: Systemic Changes
and Cultural Shifts
Nicholas Bala (Queen's University)
Chapter 10: Commentary on Bala
Justice George Czurtin (Justice of the Superior Court of Justice - Ontario)
Chapter 11: Access to Justice for Small Amount Claims in the Consumer
Marketplace: Lessons from Australia
Justin Malbon (Monash University)
Chapter 12: Challenges in Small Claims Court System Design: Does One Size
Fit All?
Shelley McGill (Deputy Judge of the Ontario Small Claims Court)
Part 7: Creating Change and Reform of the Justice System
Chapter 13: Growing Ontario Legal Aid into the Middle Class: A Proposal for
Public Legal Expenses Insurance
Sujit Choudry (University of Toronto), Michael Trebilcock, and James Wilson
Part 8: The Options Papers
Noel Semple (York University) and Carol Rogerson (University of Toronto),
Middle Income Access to Justice: Policy Options with respect to Family Law
Judith McCormack (University of Toronto) and Azim Remani (University of
Toronto), Middle Income Access to Justice: Policy Options with Respect to
Employment Law
Anthony Duggan, Azim Remani and Dennis Kao (Sidley Austin LLP), Middle
Income Access to Justice: Policy Options with respect to Consumer and
Debtor-Creditor Law
Part 9: Select Bibliography