The term "access to justice" is easily the most used or talked about terms among high court judges, regulators and governments in Canada. We must begin to make legal services more accessible to all segments of the community is the prevailing sentiment. Hence, according to what I will refer to as the conventional wisdom among the three sources of input on this subject matter access to justice entails making legal services more affordable to the general public. Of course the assumed fact in this policy choice is that this is the ONLY impediment denying what is now acknowledged to be significant and growing portions of the consumers of legal services a fair and impartial hearing of their legal clams and grievances.
Therein lies the problem. The current discourse on "access to justice" has failed to delineate and define what exactly is the problem we wish to solve when we employ the term "access to justice". In addition, the current discourse on the topic is entirely devoid of serious consideration of the issue from the perspective and interest of the consumers of legal services who are adversely impacted.
In the next post I will dedicate some time to the question of what is "access to justice".
Therein lies the problem. The current discourse on "access to justice" has failed to delineate and define what exactly is the problem we wish to solve when we employ the term "access to justice". In addition, the current discourse on the topic is entirely devoid of serious consideration of the issue from the perspective and interest of the consumers of legal services who are adversely impacted.
In the next post I will dedicate some time to the question of what is "access to justice".
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