The Utility of Mandatory Assistance for Self-Represented Litigants in Alberta

The Utility of Mandatory Assistance for Self-Represented Litigants in Alberta

This column presents excerpts from a student paper, completed under the University of Toronto’s Community Research Partnership in Ethics program; the full paper will be published by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project later this year. Over the past 20 years, Alberta’s family justice system has distinguished itself from other jurisdictions by implementing mandatory forms of assistance. In 2005, the Alberta government launched mandator…