(2016) Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 93.3, pp. 639-673.
How much does it cost individual Canadians to seek civil justice? This article compiles empirical data about the monetary, temporal, and psychological costs confronting individual justice-seekers in this country. The article then suggests that analysis of private costs can improve access to justice in two ways. First, it can help public sector policy-makers to reduce these costs. Second, it can help lawyers and entrepreneurs to identify new, affordable ways to reduce the costs that are most onerous to individuals with different types of civil legal need.
Online: https://cbr.cba.org/index.php/cbr/article/view/4358
This research was the subject of an article in the Canadian Bar Association National Magazine. Online: CBA National Magazine. Link here.