DivorceArbitrations.ca: Arbitrate your Divorce and other Family Law Matters

Heather Hui-Litwin, of Litigation Help-Public Legal Education and Self-Rep Navigators, had a chat about arbitration in family law disputes with John-Paul Boyd QC and turned their conversation into a series of seven public legal education videos. The videos cover topics including what to expect at arbitration, can you represent yourself at arbitration and understanding your arbitration agreement. See the full list of videos on Heather's Litigation Help website at https://litigation-help.com/videos-on-arbitration-with-joh/ or check out her fantastic YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfTSHhH6DmqKfUCJIgGbo4g.

Courts can be very rigid as to how they apply the law. Take pets for example, as our friends at Kahane Law Office explain in this excellent video

The nice folks at the National Self-Represented Litigants Project have published two new primers for people litigating family law and other civil disputes witho...ut counsel, one general primer on representing yourself (https://representingyourselfcanada.com//upl/2020/06/So-you’re-representing-yourself.pdf) and another that focuses on negotiation, mediation and court-based settlement processes (https://representingyourselfcanada.com//Settlement-Smarts-). Both are worthwhile reading for people who are involved in a legal dispute, and the primer on settlement processes will be useful for mediators who work with parties without lawyers. Really great work from the NSRLP and JulieMac. Julie Macfarlane is a prof at Windsor and the author of a ground-breaking study on litigants without counsel published in 2013, "Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants". Read Julie's study here: https://representingyourselfcanada.com//09/srlreportfinal.. Thanks Julie, Dayna Cornwall, Moya McAlister and all the other awesome people at the NSRLP!

Arbitration is usually much faster and less expensive than going all the way to trial to resolve your divorce. Here's an article about some of the shortcomings of court. "The problem is that while our justice system produces just results in the cases that make their way through it, the system is too expensive, too slow and too unwieldy to meet the needs of most Canadians. ... A lack of proportionate, practical solutions to legal problems has undermined the third quality of a... good justice system in Canada: that it be accessible. Accessible not just to large corporations, the well-heeled or the well-insured accessible to everyone who needs the system’s help, regardless of their income level, social status or racial and cultural background. Everyone has a right to justice and everyone should be able to get it. Sadly, Canada falls short here, we place 56th of 128 nations for accessible and affordable justice on the Rule of Law Index. Canada likes to call itself a just society, but 55 countries score better than we do for accessible justice on the ground." See more