ALIS attended the Public Legal Education Association of Canada (PLEAC) Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick on September 18 and 19. Conference organizers, the Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick (PLEIS-NB) planned an extremely informative conference. The conference theme was “Making a Difference – The Impact of Law Information on Access to Justice”.
The keynote address was delivered by Justice Thomas Cromwell, Chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters. Justice Cromwell made attendees pause and reflect on the changes that had occurred throughout Canada since the Action Committee released its report in October 2013.
Presentations were made by various organizations including our hosts (... read more
Hard to believe that ALIS participated in its second PLEAC (Public Legal Education Association of Canada) National Conference less than two weeks ago. It seems like yesterday that we wrote to tell you about the exciting and inspirational messages from the last PLEAC conference held fresh on the heels of the release of the Access to Civil and Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change report.
This year’s event was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick from September 18 to 19.
Justice Thomas Cromwell (the chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters) delivered the keynote address, which focused on the committee’s work since it released the report in October 2013.
Conference attendees who may have been skeptical about the progress made... read more
In recent months the unbundling of legal services has resounded more and more with practitioners and the public alike. It has been suggested that this could be a partial solution to the problem of access to justice.
What is unbundling you may ask? Unbundling, sometimes also referred to as limited-scope services,a la carte legal services, discrete task representation or disaggregated legal services involves a lawyer breaking down the tasks in a legal matter and providing services to a client only for a specific part of the client’s needs. The client accepts responsibility for doing the work necessary for the remaining aspects of their legal matter.
New developments in technology are making it easier for more people to both offer and use unbundled legal services. Most of the technologies used to offer these services operate on software as a service with data hosted by a... read more