More lawyers, more litigation? Exploring trends in litigation and the legal profession in Ontario, Canada

Legal Complexity and Lawyers’ Benefit from Litigation

This paper examines the interest of lawyers as a group in the level of legal complexity, assuming that lawyers prefer the level of legal complexity that maximizes their total income. I focus on aspects of the law that are the same across all cases in a particular legal field, such as the rule determining whether the defendant is liable or guilty, the rules of procedure, and the scope of damages...

Trends in malpractice litigation.

Physicians who make mistakes are not necessarily negligent, contrary to prevailing opinion in the medical community. The article discusses the legal concepts of "standard of care" and "proximate cause." The incidence of favorable jury verdicts in those cases in which malpractice suits are litigated is quite high. The effects of insurance company policies in decisions about settlements on the in...

Analytical, Legal and Ethical Look at Harassment Litigation

Background: The coexistence of human beings requires the observance of moral etiquette, which is called civil ethics in ethics and leads to normative order. In order for civil ethics to have an executive guarantee, a set of laws was formed in the society under the title of civil procedure. One of the lawsuits in this regard is the harassment lawsuit. There are complex issues in the harassment l...

Margaret McCartney: The NHS can't afford more litigation.

Things go wrong in the NHS every day. Complaints to the General Medical Council by the public rose from 3858 in 2010 to 5808 in 2014. The NHS Litigation Authority has, compared with last year, nearly doubled the money it sets aside for future claims to £56.4bn (€65.9bn; $73.6bn), having paid out £1.4bn in the past year. (The NHS annual budget is £116bn.) Doctors are encouraged to be honest abou...

The Absence of Legal Ethics in the ALI’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation: A Missed Opportunity— and More