Legal Aid, Courtworker, and Public Legal Education and Information Needs in the Northwest Territories
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Executive Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Methodology
- 1.2.1 Key Respondent Interviews
- 1.2.2 Statistical Data
- 1.2.3 Document Review
- 1.2.4 Focus Group
- 1.3 Methodological Limitations
- 2. How Court Structure, Geography and Culture Impact the Demand for Legal Services, Pattern of Service Delivery and Quality of Services
- 3. Circuit Courts
- 3.1 Quality of Service to Clients
- 3.2 Delays
- 3.3 Continuity of case
- 3.4 Other Issues
- 4. Justice of the Peace (JP) Court
- 5. Courtworkers
- 6. Unmet Needs in Family and Other Civil Matters
- 7. Unmet Needs Prior to First Appearance
- 8. Interplay Between Criminal and Civil Issues
- 9. Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI)
- 10. Cost Drivers
- 10.1 Factors
- 11. Federal and Territorial Drivers of Cost
- 11.1 Legislative Drivers
- 11.2 Policy Drivers
- 12. Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Summary of Legal Aid Focus Group Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, August 12, 2002
- Tables
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