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Trending Access to Justice Stories for the Week of 5/16 to 5/20
- Lisa Foster’s ATJ Commissions Meeting Speech Focuses on Big Changes (accesstojustice.net)
- Law students in Canada develop app for court admins to help unclog the courts and improve access to justice: bit.ly/TRvr-AppCrt (cbc.ca)
- Consortium on Racial/Ethnic Fairness hosting 1st Town Hall 5/26. Tweet ?s to #CommunityTHall2016 ncsc.org/townhallmeeting (ncsc.org)
- How the high cost of access to justice in civil courts pushes poor in the US to prison: http://bit.ly/1TT5Pe3
- New Justice Index ranks Washington DC highest in access to justice, highlights strides states made in civil justice last year. buff.ly/1Xpf2xy (abajournal.com)
- Could national licensing for lawyers help close the access gap? http://bit.ly/1HqsciL (lawyerist.com)
- Study on Judicial Responses to Self-Represented Litigants in the Courts of British Columbia: http://bit.ly/1ZXgkyt (cle.bc.ca)
- How States Are Failing to Provide Justice for All: http://bit.ly/24UKQwr (psmag.com)
- How the high cost of access to justice in civil courts pushes poor in the US to prison: http://bit.ly/1TT5Pe3 (theintercept.com)
- Early intake for strata this summer - the Canadian Civil Resolution Tribunal's big next step: https://www.civilresolutionbc.ca/our-next-step-early-intake-for-strata-d... (civilresolutionbc.ca)
- One More Way the Courts Aren’t Working for the Poor via The Nation: http://bit.ly/23UZotC (thenation.com)
- New Zealand announces data driven approach to expanding access to justice:
- On new PL plans and forms out of WA's courts: http://bit.ly/1THCoc9 (wsba.or)
- Meet Ross, the newly hired "legal robot": http://wapo.st/1WA4sF0 (washingtonpost.com)
- UNICEF pilots project in Papua New Guinea using SMS to collect village court data to improve access to justice: bit.ly/UNICEF-A2J (unicef.org)
- Deregulation: The Changing Legal Services Landscape in Canada: http://bit.ly/1V9lwQF (uvicace.com)
- Pop-up courts needed to help create more flexible justice system ow.ly/QzSW300ljSW (theguardian.com)
- Updates on the A2J White House Forum: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=872dc3f675f4992b817f4c9f8&id=495a7cb4c0 (campaign-archive.com)
- A look at the lack of access to civil justice in the US via Salon: http://bit.ly/1TpEYq3 (salon.com)
- Brookings finds poor households more likely to experience legal problems, less likely to have the resources to resolve them: brook.gs/1OBOzWe (brookings.edu)
- Illinois' standardized statewide answer forms are now live: http://bit.ly/1TuwvD3 (illinoiscourts.gov)
- Editorial- Fix Virginia's court-fine system: http://bit.ly/1svkDX2 (richmond.com)
- Hacking for Justice: Legal Aid & Tech Collaborations: bit.ly/25boRVK (youtube.com)
- Updates on the Montana ATJ Commission public forums: http://bit.ly/27HuyJL (bozemandailychronicle.com)