Canada is consistently touted as one of the best countries in which to live, but it ranks an unimpressive 112 out of 190 countries according to the World Bank’s enforcing contracts indicator. For good reason: Our civil-justice system is on the fritz. Litigating a civil claim (e.g. contract claim, property rights claim, etc.) can take […] Lire la suite
Three University of Ottawa law professors have uploaded an article entitled Mobile and Web-Based Legal Apps: Opportunities, Risks and Information Gaps to the SSRN website: « Mobile and web-based apps are one technology with the potential to improve access to justice, either by helping lawyers increase the efficiency of service delivery or by reducing the need […] Lire la suite
As most lawyers would agree, few recent court cases have had the impact of last year’s Supreme Court decision in R. v. Jordan. A quick look at the CanLII website tells us that it has already been cited in over 200 other decisions in the 8 months since it was rendered and many court administrators […] Lire la suite
Predicting the outcome of Supreme Court decisions has long been a favorite parlor game for political scientists, attorneys, and legal-system junkies. People have built statistical models, predictive algorithms, and flow charts, and have used machine learning to try to guess what the justices will decide. Some of these models are reliable. Several of them make […] Lire la suite
The increase in the number of self-represented litigants demonstratesd the need for a “wide ranging” examination on the barriers to accessible justice, the New Zealand Law Society president Chris Moore has said. Reports about increasing court costs and other barriers to justice are leading to a significant increase in self represented litigants, which is increasingly […] Lire la suite
Blog sur l’informatique libre au Québec tenu par Cyrille Beraud Il n’est pas possible de nous soustraire à l’ordre « corrompu » de l’État : y introduire une torsion supplémentaire, y inscrire notre fidélité à un Événement, voilà ce qui nous reste. Nous demeurons alors dans les frontières de l’État mais nous faisons fonctionner l’État de façon […] Lire la suite
Par Antoine Guilmain (Ph.D. Candidate in Law (LL.D.) Université de Montréal and Université Paris 1) « Ne pas planifier, c’est programmer l’échec. » (Auteur inconnu, mais plein de bon sens !) Depuis plusieurs années, l’entente sur le déroulement de l’instance est devenue la pierre de touche de la procédure civile. Comme le résume le juge François […] Lire la suite
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Par Antoine Guilmain (Ph.D. Candidate in Law (LL.D.) Université de Montréal and Université Paris 1) « Audi alteram partem »… Encore une veritas qui est utilisée ad nauseam pour justifier la moindre ratio legis, me direz-vous ! Et bien, pas cette fois. Cet adage entretient un lien de filiation flagrant avec l’obligation de signifier les actes de procédure […] Lire la suite
Par Riikka Koulu In the previous post I shed light on the background of UNCITRAL’s work in drafting unified procedural rules for resolving e-commerce disputes through online dispute resolution. In this post I will discuss the meeting on February 2015. UNCITRAL’s work concerning ODR rules has proven to be much harder a task than expected, […] Lire la suite
