Book contents
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- 4 Dignity in the Courtroom
- 5 Contracts for Dignity
- 6 Dignifying the Experience of Domestic Violence Survivors Seeking Legal Services
- 7 More Than a Building
- 8 Movement Lawyering
- 9 Deploying Art and Design to Highlight the Dignity of Domestic Workers in Their Struggle for Labor Rights
- 10 The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
- 11 My Mainway
- III How Legal Design Works
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
4 - Dignity in the Courtroom
Judges and Self-Represented Litigants
from II - What Legal Design Can Do
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
Book contents
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- 4 Dignity in the Courtroom
- 5 Contracts for Dignity
- 6 Dignifying the Experience of Domestic Violence Survivors Seeking Legal Services
- 7 More Than a Building
- 8 Movement Lawyering
- 9 Deploying Art and Design to Highlight the Dignity of Domestic Workers in Their Struggle for Labor Rights
- 10 The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
- 11 My Mainway
- III How Legal Design Works
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter will examine ideas of dignity in the context of proceedings in the Canadian civil justice system with a focus on the role judges can and do play in furthering or degrading notions of dignity in the courtroom. It details the rise of no representation in civil courts and the challenge and trauma that individuals experience throughout the de-dignifying process. It then offers some thoughts on dignity as a concept within the world of self-representation, before detailing the role of the judge in these cases, and the impact different judicial approaches have on litigants without lawyers. It closes by offering proposed reforms to procedures, administration, and the adjudicator’s role that would enhance the dignity of people moving through court systems without the help of a lawyer.
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- Legal DesignDignifying People in Legal Systems, pp. 61 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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