LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Statutory Interpretation, Duty Counsel, Problem Solving
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What limits access (mathen: standing- says if you want to access the court, you have to be able to appear to the court, have standing. If you don"t have a standing, you don"t necessarily have right to be part of the case. If the court doesn"t see that you have personal interest in the case, you wont be apart of the case. If you were not personally effected by it, you don"t have standing in the case. Try and present a case by representing a public interest: resources (31661$)- Judges do not have freedom of speech. Middle class is being frozen out of the justice system. Not just poor people, but middle class as well. Cost of a routine civil case taking about 3 days long, costs about 60,000$ Since people self-represent because of this, it results in slowing down an already slow court.
