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Town hall discussion about auto insurance in Goderich

” We want to know if Ontario’s insurers are simply taking advantage of Canada’s poor access to justice record and deliberately clogging up our court systems in order to make higher profits…”

http://www.lucknowsentinel.com/2013/08/20/town-hall-discussion-about-auto-insurance-in-goderich

Privacy and an Open Administrative Justice System

But doesn’t anonymizing the names of the censured health professionals undermine the objective of the Ontario health regulatory system – protecting the public?

http://www.slaw.ca/2013/08/21/privacy-and-an-open-administrative-justice-system/comment-page-1/#comment-938669

How not to find a lawyer

Make no mistake, ads for legal firms are not intended as public service announcements

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/16/how-not-to-find-a-lawyer

A2J requires ‘dramatic’ changes: CBA report

“We need to make visible the pain caused by inadequate access and the huge discrepancies between the promise of justice and the lived reality of barriers and impediments,” says Melina Buckley

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/1630/a2j-requires-dramatic-changes-cba-report.html

MPP Hosts Goderich Meeting on Auto Insurance

The public meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 5th at the Sunset Golf Course in Goderich

http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2013/08/15/mpp-hosts-goderich-meeting-on-auto-insurance/

Hanson Duby, Toronto’s Leading Personal Injury Law Firm, Releases Comment on Toronto Police Services Refusal to Track Cyclists “Doored” by Parked Cars

Toronto Police stopped tracking the number of cyclists “getting doored” in 2012, after new provincial guidelines defined a collision as involving a vehicle “in motion”—a cyclist hitting the open door of a parked car does not fit the strict definition.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1410505

Another kick to wronged plaintiffs

ODSP benefit recipients are obligated to report to the government if they have an ongoing lawsuit. If they receive compensation for pain and suffering through a settlement or a court judgment, the “allowable maximum” they can keep is calculated after legal fees and disbursements have been deducted from the total settlement or court judgment.

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201308123382/headline-news/another-kick-to-wronged-plaintiffs

Privacy abuses

More information controlled by public institutions should be made available to the public

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/09/privacy-abuses

Government Intervention to Solve the “Access to Justice” Problem Is Inevitable

http://www.slaw.ca/2013/08/09/government-intervention-to-solve-the-access-to-justice-problem-is-inevitable/

Judge denounces ‘shameful’ wait times for trials

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/1614/judge-denounces-shameful-wait-times-for-trials.html