Bonkalo report: Questions about paralegals for family cases | Nicholas Bala
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 @ 9:11 AM | By Nicholas Bala
The recently released Family Legal Services Review, authored by retired chief justice Annemarie Bonkalo, offers some sound recommendations addressing concerns related to the growing number of unrepresented family litigants, but also makes controversial proposals for allowing representation by paralegals in family cases. These proposals raise fundamental questions about the different roles of lawyers and paralegals.
The report considers experiences in jurisdictions outside Ontario where non-lawyers provide limited family services; consistent with these developments there are good proposals for paralegals acting without lawyer supervision to provide services...
The report considers experiences in jurisdictions outside Ontario where non-lawyers provide limited family services; consistent with these developments there are good proposals for paralegals acting without lawyer supervision to provide services...
