eNews: Help
John-Paul Boyd is the executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, a non-profit organization associated with the University of Calgary. Last year he drafted a statement of the rights and responsibilities of people who participate in Canadian court proceedings without a lawyer and it got a lot of attention.
The executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, John-Paul Boyd, has published a statement online setting out the rights and responsibilities of people who are involved in Canadian court proceedings without a lawyer to represent them. It’s worth reading.
Updated May 2021
What if everyone in B.C. had the legal information they needed and the ability to use it effectively?
There are a great many online resources to help people going to court without a lawyer, but it’s not easy to figure out which ones will be most useful.