Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Canadian Civil Justice: Relief in Small and Simple Matters in an Age of Efficiency

Canada is in the midst of an access to justice crisis. The rising costs and complexity of legal services in Canada have surpassed the need for these services. This article briefly explores some obstacles to civil justice as well as some of the court-based programmes and initiatives in place across Canada to address this growing access to justice gap. In particular, this article explains the Can...

civil JusTice sysTems and civil procedures in a changing World: main problems, fundamenTal reforms and perspecTives – a european vieW

Whilst the article will address the problems and reforms of civil procedure and the law relating thereto, its principle consideration focuses on issues surrounding reform problems among present and future ‘civil justice systems’ in Eastern and Western Europe as a whole. This consideration will not simply concentrate on mere single ‘tendencies,’ trends or shifts of civil procedural developments,...

What price civil justice ? Brian

In the jurisdictions both of England and Wales and of Scotland, the civil justice system is currently the subject of intense critical appraisal. This paper considers the current status of civil justice, beginning by asking what we expect from our system of civil justice and going on to analyse the supply and demand of civil legal services in market terms. The authors conclude that there is scop...

Demonstrating the Possibilities of Providing Mediation Early and by Court Staff: The Western District of Missouri’s Early Assessment Program In early 1991, a group of attorneys in Kansas City, Missouri met to consider how their local federal court

In early 1991, a group of attorneys in Kansas City, Missouri met to consider how their local federal court could best help litigants resolve their disputes. While many of these attorneys might have been interested in this question under any circumstances, they were driven in this instance by the requirements of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990. Under that statute, their court had been desig...

Should Montana Adopt a Civil Justice Reform Act?