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What is My Lawyer Spending My Money On?
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Контент предоставлен Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof JulieMac and National Self-Represented Litigants Project. Весь контент подкастов, включая эпизоды, графику и описания подкастов, загружается и предоставляется непосредственно компанией Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof JulieMac and National Self-Represented Litigants Project или ее партнером по платформе подкастов. Если вы считаете, что кто-то использует вашу работу, защищенную авторским правом, без вашего разрешения, вы можете выполнить процедуру, описанную здесь https://ru.player.fm/legal.
Today’s episode features the story of a family self-represented litigant, who was originally represented by two different lawyers. She spent $20,000 on her first lawyer – resolving an uncontentious custody issue – but made no progress toward child support or division of assets. The second lawyer cost her another $25,000 – and still didn’t resolve child support, division of assets, or divorce. Her best efforts to obtain any information about what her money had been spent on, or to hold her lawyers to account via their professional regulator (the Law Society of Ontario) led… nowhere. Jana Saracevic and Nancy Cameron Q.C. comment. Among other things, this story illustrates the shortcomings of the Law Society of Ontario’s Compensation Fund, which offers no protection for many forms of negligence, only dishonesty, which is narrowly defined. There are no public reports describing how many claims are received and how many are met. In Other News: Guest Other News Correspondent Jordan Furlong focuses today on breaking news from the Law Society of Ontario: The Law Society’s Technology Task Force has released a report calling for the establishment of a Regulatory Sandbox for Innovative Technological Legal Services. (A Regulatory Sandbox is essentially a safe space for innovation, to try out new types of services that are prohibited by current regulations but look like they could be beneficial to the public.) The report includes a motion to be brought before Convocation later this month for approval of the Sandbox for a five-year pilot-program period. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/what-is-my-lawyer-spending-my-money-on/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Jordan Furlong; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.
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Контент предоставлен Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof JulieMac and National Self-Represented Litigants Project. Весь контент подкастов, включая эпизоды, графику и описания подкастов, загружается и предоставляется непосредственно компанией Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof JulieMac and National Self-Represented Litigants Project или ее партнером по платформе подкастов. Если вы считаете, что кто-то использует вашу работу, защищенную авторским правом, без вашего разрешения, вы можете выполнить процедуру, описанную здесь https://ru.player.fm/legal.
Today’s episode features the story of a family self-represented litigant, who was originally represented by two different lawyers. She spent $20,000 on her first lawyer – resolving an uncontentious custody issue – but made no progress toward child support or division of assets. The second lawyer cost her another $25,000 – and still didn’t resolve child support, division of assets, or divorce. Her best efforts to obtain any information about what her money had been spent on, or to hold her lawyers to account via their professional regulator (the Law Society of Ontario) led… nowhere. Jana Saracevic and Nancy Cameron Q.C. comment. Among other things, this story illustrates the shortcomings of the Law Society of Ontario’s Compensation Fund, which offers no protection for many forms of negligence, only dishonesty, which is narrowly defined. There are no public reports describing how many claims are received and how many are met. In Other News: Guest Other News Correspondent Jordan Furlong focuses today on breaking news from the Law Society of Ontario: The Law Society’s Technology Task Force has released a report calling for the establishment of a Regulatory Sandbox for Innovative Technological Legal Services. (A Regulatory Sandbox is essentially a safe space for innovation, to try out new types of services that are prohibited by current regulations but look like they could be beneficial to the public.) The report includes a motion to be brought before Convocation later this month for approval of the Sandbox for a five-year pilot-program period. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/what-is-my-lawyer-spending-my-money-on/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Jordan Furlong; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.
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×Our final episode for this season focuses on the campaign to ban the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) being led by Dr. Julie Macfarlane and Zelda Perkins. Named “Can’t Buy My Silence,” Julie and Zelda’s campaign aims to bring new law into effect in both Canada and the UK to stop victims being forced to exchange their own privacy for protecting their abuser in cases of harassment, discrimination, and bullying, and to stop employers (including schools, universities, and churches as well as both unionized and non-unionized workplaces) using NDAs to secretly “pass-the-trash” to other employers. Julie talks with Dayna about how she and Zelda met and planned the campaign, both motivated by their personal experiences of NDAs: Zelda with the notorious Harvey Weinstein, and Julie who saw a colleague terminated for harassment protected by an NDA (and a letter of recommendation) from the University of Windsor. Stacey Buchholzer, the campaign coordinator, closes out the podcast by reading from a selection of the many stories that have been submitted to the campaign, illustrating the trauma experienced from being first subjected to unfairness and misconduct, and then permanently silenced. The campaign website includes a lot of public legal information about NDAs. You can also listen to Julie’s conversation with Zelda from last season, before they launched their campaign, in which Zelda describes how she broke her NDA with Weinstein and brought this issue into public discussion, which she has continued ever since. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. Charlotte discusses: a Toronto-based legal clinic’s recent challenge against caps on damages awarded in claims involving the Canadian Human Rights Act; and Chief Justice Jacques Fournier of the Québec Superior Court’s recent decision to step down from the bench at the age of 71, and some interesting comments he made regarding access to justice in the COVID-19 pandemic context. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/cant-buy-my-silence/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
In today’s episode, Julie talks to Bernie Mayer and Jackie Font-Guzmán about the ideas they explore in their new book, The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Wiley, 2022). Two long-time mediators and mediation teachers, Bernie and Jackie describe their growing disillusionment with the way mediation is sometimes offered to family and other litigants: as a panacea that will smooth over rough edges and produce an “agreement,” which will be able to resolve underlying differences. Bernie and Jackie both speak to their personal experience of conflicts that reflect larger societal power differences and systems, and reflect on the danger that a more superficial, “make nice” approach reinforces existing inequalities and injustices. Going behind the headlines (“he is a monster!” “she is impossible!”), while messy, uncomfortable, and often worse, can produce a more realistic path for moving forward, and allows each party to explore their own truth. Bernie Mayer was a founding partner of CDR Associates, and has provided conflict intervention for families, communities, universities, corporations, and governmental agencies throughout North America and internationally for over 35 years. Bernie is Emeritus Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Creighton University. He has worked in child welfare, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and psychotherapy. His earlier books include: Beyond Neutrality, and The Conflict Paradox. Jackie Font-Guzmán is the inaugural Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Eastern Mennonite University. Previously she was professor of conflict and peacebuilding at Creighton University. Jackie has provided mediation, facilitation, and consulting services to many international and transnational organizations. She previously worked in law and health policy. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. Charlotte discusses: a news release from the Department of Justice on advancing reconciliation through addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system in Canada; and a recent access to justice study showing an exponential increase in dismissals of race-based cases by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/does-making-nice-make-it-worse/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
The vast majority of self-represented litigants cannot afford full representation in legal services – and yet most of them are continuing to search for assistance that is affordable to them. In this episode, Julie speaks with Marcus Sixta, of CrossRoads Law, about his pioneering legal coaching practice, Coach My Case. Marcus is a leading innovator in the development of legal services that are tailored to client needs and pocket books, such as offering different tiers of assistance and working collaboratively to assess and meet needs. He believes in utilizing the skills of paralegals and lawyers, as well as a range of services, from procedural navigation, to issue identification, to hearings coaching. Leona Harvie, who provides the reflection in this episode, is a former self-represented litigant who now works as a divorce coach, providing support and legal information to family law clients. She can be found at letstalkdivorcecanada.com and on Instagram where her handle is letstalkdivorcecanada. NSRLP has been developing a National Directory of Professionals Assisting Self-Represented Litigants since 2016; it contains the names and details of professionals across the country who offer legal coaching. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. This week Charlotte discusses: the Attorney General of British Columbia announcing new rules of procedure for the British Columbia Court of Appeal; a piece on parental relocation cases in family law; and the controversial Bill 96, recently passed by the National Assembly of Québec. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/you-drive-the-bus-with-a-coach-in-your-corner/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Since the murder of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement there has been a new focus on the development of anti-Black racism training, and education on the impact of racism on our lives, relationships, and beliefs. Moya McAlister and Siddika Jessa are both creating workshops and safe spaces for conversation and education on race and racism. In this episode, Julie asks them how they manage these (often) uncomfortable discussions and interactions in a way that deepens our understanding of our own assumptions and biases, and gives us all the chance to rethink and do better. Moya McAlister is Communications Manager for NSRLP. She is also Board Director of Black Women of Forward Action, a Windsor-based group that advocates for anti-Black racism initiatives at a community and municipal level, and supports Black women entrepreneurs and students. Moya was previously featured in our episode, “Living Black Lives.” Siddika Jessa has also previously taken part in the podcast, for the episode, “The Courage of Your Convictions,” when she described how some members of her community responded to her son’s same-sex marriage. Since then, Siddika has founded WiderLens, which delivers training workshops in the faith community, as well as the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Wider Lens focuses on training in communication, emotional intelligence, anti-racism, and diversity. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Shannon Meikle. This week Shannon discusses: the Ontario government’s plan to combine courthouses in North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough; an update to the discussion surrounding the LSO’s ability to facilitate justice; and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s appointment of three new judges, all women. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/talking-about-racism-is-uncomfortable-and-necessary/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Shannon Meikle; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
This week Julie talks with our new Executive Director, Jennifer Leitch! You can read more about Jennifer on our website, including Moya McAlister’s blog interview with her. That post, as well as today’s episode, delves into why Jennifer made the radical career switch from commercial litigator with a big Bay Street law firm to Access to Justice advocate, and now Director of NSRLP. Jennifer expands on her thinking about the future, both for the legal system and for the NSRLP, and conveys a sense of urgency, practicality, and also, crucially, vision. Jennifer’s conversation with Julie is prefaced by comments from three SRLs (Jennifer Muller, Jeff Rose-Martland, and Karin Turkington) who describe why NSRLP is important, what qualities the Director needs, and what their challenges are likely to be. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Shannon Meikle. This week Shannon discusses: a recent article calling for the LSO to be held publicly accountable for its actions, even if that means dissolution or reform; legislation recently passed in the Yukon seeking to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families involved with the child welfare system, as well as address the over-representation of Indigenous children and youth in care; and the province of Manitoba being awarded $1.6 million dollars in funding to implement provisions to make court documents in divorce proceedings available in both official languages. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/nsrlps-new-captain/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Shannon Meikle; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Following the recent Ontario decision in Ahluwalia, which established a new tort of family violence, this episode explores the work of two women and two organizations working to try to protect victims of violence. Deepa Mattoo, Executive Director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic in Toronto, speaks to Julie about what the Clinic does to serve marginalized and vulnerable women and the range of services they offer to help rebuild lives, as well as her ideas for ways that an over-stretched system could work better and serve more people. Reflecting on Deepa’s interview, Humera Jabir of West Coast LEAF talks about her work on test case litigation and other strategies to try to expand support and legal assistance to those experiencing family violence, especially single parents. In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Shannon Meikle. This week Shannon discusses: new family law legislation from Nova Scotia, the Superior Court of Justice announcement about a partial in-person return to court hearings for family lawyers, and Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s statement that he’s “enormously preoccupied” with the access to justice issues that arise out of Canadians being forced to self-represent at the Supreme Court. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/confronting-family-violence/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Shannon Meikle; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Ilana Luther is the Director of our newest chapter, NSRLP East, based in the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax. NSRLP East has been in existence for just under a year, but has already achieved a lot (check out their website!) and is reaching out to SRLs across Atlantic Canada in order to highlight their particular issues and challenges. Ilana is an Advisory Board member for the national NSRLP organization, and works closely with national staff to plan and prioritize goals and strategies. This conversation introduces listeners to Ilana, and her commitment to policy reform after beginning in legal practice and becoming disillusioned with, as she puts it, “pushing people through a broken system.” Ilana describes how she first recognized the disconnect between system and users when she worked in child protection; she has since gone on to work in many areas of law reform as the Director of the Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute, adding Director of NSRLP East to her busy resume in the summer of 2021. We’re excited to introduce you to Ilana and to NSRLP East! In Other News: This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. Charlotte discusses: a piece from the Law Times on the recent debate in Ontario regarding a minimum wage for articling students; a story from the Lawyer’s Daily on a historic first at the Supreme Court of Canada: an intervention by Nunavut Legal Aid; and a story from Slaw about a new tort of family violence in Ontario following the ground-breaking case of Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/proudly-introducing-nsrlp-east/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
This episode of Jumping Off the Ivory Tower features Julie’s conversation with Teresa Donnelly, the Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario and the leader of Ontario’s legal profession elected by its “Convocation” or parliament. Teresa has a background as a prosecutor with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, where she was a member of the Sexual Violence Advisory Group whose work focused on sexual violence prosecutions and on improving the victim’s experience in the criminal justice system. Her commitment to a fairer criminal justice system and her consciousness of the impact of trauma on mental health – for lawyers as well as survivors of violence – are reflected both in her conversation with Julie and in her priorities as Treasurer. Teresa is also the leader of the Ontario profession at a time where there is a special focus on regulation, and some moves towards expansion of licensing: a sandbox for innovative tech legal services, paralegals offering some family services alongside lawyers (the subject of ongoing argument and resistance from the Family Bar), and just what the role of the regulator should be in controlling the space in which legal services are offered. In Other News: Welcome to another new Other News “correspondent”: NSRLP Research Assistant and law student Shannon Meikle! This week Shannon discusses: a new Family Violence law tort that has been established at the Ontario Superior Court thanks to an SRL who argued she deserved additional damages for the spousal abuse she suffered throughout her marriage; and, a new petition before the House of Commons that seeks to hold judges accountable for their mistakes. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/leading-the-ontario-legal-profession/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Shannon Meikle; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Welcome to season 7 of Jumping Off the Ivory Tower! For our season opener, (and our 75th episode!) we’re featuring a conversation with three Law Practice Program candidates – “almost” lawyers – who, along with their classmates, participated in two extended sessions with a group of almost 20 self-represented litigants in the fall of 2021. This was NSRLP’s first in-school program to include self-reps in a small group, discussion-based exploration of their experiences in the legal system. Judging by the comments of both the candidates and the self-reps, the program (developed by NSRLP along with Chris Bentley, LPP Director), was an outstanding success. Julie’s conversation with Jesse Frohlich, Laurene Williams and Zainab Asadullah reveals the insights and new understandings they discovered as a result of their structured conversations with up to four different self-reps. In Other News: Welcome to one of our new Other News “correspondents,” NSRLP Research Assistant and law student Charlotte Sullivan! This week Charlotte discusses: a piece from the Law Times on expanding access to remote hearing technologies; and the recent proposal by the Law Society of Ontario to expand Family Legal Services Provider Licences to paralegals for certain specified services. (Unlike Ms. Boulby, NSRLP supports this proposal. We have posted extensively about this issue – see below for links to more information.) For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/a-new-generation-of-lawyers/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Today’s season finale was a labour of love! Working with guests ages 4 and up is, well, challenging, for both interviewer (Julie) and production editor (Brauntë). But it was well worth it! For this episode, Julie talked with Ryann, Quinlan, Ava, Wyatt, Ezzo, and Jennah (occasionally interrupted by younger sister Emma), along with their moms (who we tried to keep out of the conversation…) about whether they could remember before the pandemic (no, or only sort-of), what it’s like to wear a mask all the time, how online schooling can be both fun and frustrating (mostly frustrating), and what it’s like to spend all day every day at home with your parents and siblings. Julie also talked with 12-year-old Uma for a more measured, reflective take on the same questions. For our outro, we asked Jennifer Muller, an NSRLP Advisory Board member, past podcast guest (in fact, Jennifer kicked off this season, and she was our first ever podcast guest!), and access to justice advocate, to comment on what the kids said about their experience of lockdown and pandemic . Jennifer is also a K-12 schools counsellor for the North Vancouver School Board and has been listening to kids talk about the pandemic and its impact on them for the past 16 months. We had a lot of fun making this podcast and we hope you enjoy these authentic childrens’ voices telling it like it is! In Other News: The wonderful Jordan Furlong (legal markets analyst and former podcast guest) wraps up Other News this season on a positive note with a roundup of encouraging stories from around the access to justice sphere, including an innovation sandbox, a Truth and Reconciliation initiative, and the nomination of Justice Mahmud Jamal to the Supreme Court. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/a-kids-eye-view-of-the-pandemic/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Jordan Furlong; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Today’s podcast focuses on the experiences of people with cognitive disabilities (PWCD) who are trying to navigate the courts without a lawyer. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have heard increasingly from SRLs with cognitive disabilities about their lack of accommodation from the courts. It seemed that the accommodation processes in place – for example in Ontario, via an Accessibility Co-ordinator in each courthouse – had broken down. SRLs described making applications for accommodations in open court, disclosing private medical information to the other side, and having to “duke it out” over necessary accommodations to enable them to meaningfully participate in their own case. In preparation for Julie’s recent presentation to the Ontario Courts Accessibility Committee, chaired by Associate Chief Justice Fairburn, on this topic, two NSRLP research assistants, Silvia Battaglia and Shannon Meikle, reached out to SRLs with cognitive disabilities and asked them to speak about their experiences seeking court accommodations. They discovered that almost all the SRLs were unaware of the presence of Accessibility Coordinators in their courthouses, or the process for requesting accommodations before a hearing. Their descriptions of feeling like there was no one to help them are captured in excerpts from the interviews, recorded with their permission. Their experiences are shocking and heartbreaking, and frustrating, since there is a process for seeking accommodations that is intended to be private, responsive, and to remove such requests from an adversarial setting. The problem? Almost no one knows about it, or how to use it. This episode also uses a short clip from a podcast recorded in 2017 with Judy Gayton, an SRL whose devastating experience in the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench was covered by CBC, and who describes graphically and poignantly the impact of her brain injury on her cognitive processing. In Other News: Guest Other News Correspondent Katie Pfaff today focuses on access to justice for Indigenous people in Canada. In the wake of the discovery of the graves of 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops residential school, Chief Justice Richard Wagner states that there must be more education for the bench to understand Indigenous history and the histories of other cultures and communities. Katie’s second news story focuses on a settlement reached to include hundreds Indigenous people who were left out of the residential schools' class action compensation protocols. We would also encourage our listeners to read Windsor Law Acting Dean Beverly Jacobs’ recent piece in The Conversation, “Investigate discovery of 215 children’s graves in Kamloops as a crime against humanity.” For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/struggling-for-accommodation/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Katie Pfaff; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Today’s episode explores how men and women can talk – really talk – about how society confronts the extraordinary predominance of male-on-female sexual violence (which studies consistently show accounts for over 90% of sexual abuse, assault, and harassment). The first conversation features Neville McKay and Phillip Hart talking to Julie about their reactions to her personal story in her book, Going Public. Neville studied at Durham University with Julie in the 1970s in England, and they have remained friends. Neville recently retired from his career as an actuary. Phill was formerly a schoolteacher in Sydney, Australia and is now a mediator and conflict resolution trainer. Phill and his book group read Going Public in draft. Khalil Jessa is a Windsor Law alumnus who has worked previously with Julie on community dialogue on Islamophobia (his earlier podcast episode "Islamophobia In Our Backyard" can be found on our webpage). Khalil adds his reflections from a younger generation on the potential and the risks of a frank and self-examining conversation about sexual violence between men and women. In other news, Katie Pfaff highlights what Access to Justice looks like in a post-COVID world. Former Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s recent keynote address to the annual Summit of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters focused on creating a people-centred justice system in the wake of the challenges of the pandemic. Alberta Legal Aid President, John Panusa, similarly reflects that the accommodations and changes the pandemic has brought on in the legal system must continue, if we are to obtain meaningful access to justice. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/men-on-metoo/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Katie Pfaff; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Trevor Farrow is a well-known Access to Justice advocate and researcher who has been pushing forward system change in the justice system via the Canadian Civil Justice Forum, which he heads. Randi Druzin is an author and freelance journalist, who has had her own self-represented litigant journey, and is a passionate advocate for system change. Their conversation opens with Randi asking Trevor, “but isn’t the pace of change glacial?” and they go on to discuss what research can contribute to new ideas and innovations that focus on the users, the role of research, how to get “buy-in” to change from insiders, and continuing prejudices against SRLs. In other news: Guest Other News Correspondent Katie Pfaff focuses on Bill C-3, which requires sexual assault training for new judges, and has now become law; the bill requires the Canadian Judicial Council to report on continuing education seminars offered on matters related to sexual assault law and social context. It also amends the Criminal Code to require judges to state their reasoning for their decision in sexual assault proceedings on the record. Katie also brings us the related story of the federal government’s new multi-million-dollar budgetary commitments to investments promoting women’s socioeconomic equality (including early learning and the childcare system), and a national initiative promoting independent legal advice and representation for sexual assault survivors, and pilot programs for intimate partner violence survivors. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/legal-system-change-are-we-still-just-tinkering/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Katie Pfaff; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Zelda Perkins exploded into public view in 2017, the first woman to break a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) signed with Harvey Weinstein decades earlier. Zelda worked as a Production Assistant for Miramax and for several years worked directly with Harvey Weinstein on his film projects. Zelda describes signing the non-disclosure agreement in her early twenties as feeling like having “guns pointed at me from every side” – by Weinstein’s lawyer but also by her own lawyer, who told her that she had no alternative but to sign. Over the years she regretted this over and over again – she found she could not explain to prospective employers why she had left Miramax, and her career in Hollywood film production effectively ended. She also began to hear about numerous other allegations against Weinstein and realized that his behaviour was serial, and that he had gone far beyond harassment and raped a number of women. She began to look for a journalist and a publication that were willing to break the story and risk the wrath of the most powerful man in Hollywood at the time. She knew that she could face an aggressive legal response from Weinstein if she broke her NDA – but she was ready. Since then, others inspired by her example have spoken up about the widespread use of NDAs to gag those who could warn about serial harassers, rapists, and bullies. In other news: Guest Other News Correspondent Jordan Furlong gives an update on news earlier this month about the possibility of a legal regulatory sandbox in Ontario: since our last episode the Law Society of Ontario has approved the sandbox pilot! Jordan explains what happened at the LSO, including some of the objections raised to the sandbox, and he reflects on what comes next: “We don’t really know, and while that’s kind of scary to some people, for me, it’s more exhilarating. It means we finally have a chance for Canada’s largest province to really encourage innovation in legal services, with a goal towards improving access. And that’s manifestly a goal worth taking chances for.” For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/ndas-protecting-abusers-since-the-90s/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Jordan Furlong; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
Today’s episode features the story of a family self-represented litigant, who was originally represented by two different lawyers. She spent $20,000 on her first lawyer – resolving an uncontentious custody issue – but made no progress toward child support or division of assets. The second lawyer cost her another $25,000 – and still didn’t resolve child support, division of assets, or divorce. Her best efforts to obtain any information about what her money had been spent on, or to hold her lawyers to account via their professional regulator (the Law Society of Ontario) led… nowhere. Jana Saracevic and Nancy Cameron Q.C. comment. Among other things, this story illustrates the shortcomings of the Law Society of Ontario’s Compensation Fund, which offers no protection for many forms of negligence, only dishonesty, which is narrowly defined. There are no public reports describing how many claims are received and how many are met. In Other News: Guest Other News Correspondent Jordan Furlong focuses today on breaking news from the Law Society of Ontario: The Law Society’s Technology Task Force has released a report calling for the establishment of a Regulatory Sandbox for Innovative Technological Legal Services. (A Regulatory Sandbox is essentially a safe space for innovation, to try out new types of services that are prohibited by current regulations but look like they could be beneficial to the public.) The report includes a motion to be brought before Convocation later this month for approval of the Sandbox for a five-year pilot-program period. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/what-is-my-lawyer-spending-my-money-on/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Jordan Furlong; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.…
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