access to justice for litigants in person

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/litigants-person-numbers-soar

"A Civil Justice Council working party will make recommendations to the justice secretary on access to justice for litigants in person by 31 October."

Hi maggie,

Thanks for that. I particularly enjoyed reading this extract:

"The rise in the number of litigants in person is causing concerns about the extra strain placed on the courts system. Writing in the Gazette District Judge Peter Glover noted that the increased burden would inevitably be accompanied by ‘significant increases in delay for other court users’. District judges, he warned, are ‘nearing the limits of [their] capacity and inventiveness’."

So the courts are going to struggle doing what they were set up to do before they became a self-serving business?

The whole point of the Law and the Courts is to be accessible to and to protect the ordinary person.

The Reformation removed the mediaeval notion that priests were the sole conduit to God, yet in the 21st century there is still the notion (and for certain activity LAW!) that justice is to be obtained via a lawyer.

Best wishes,

YA