This review article examines Rabeea Assy’s case against granting litigants a general right to self-representation in civil proceedings. Assy argues that this right confers no significant value in terms of enforcing litigants’ ...

This article is a review of the book “Feminist Judgements of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Rino: A two-stranded rope,” a collection of New Zealand judgments re-written from a feminist perspective. The author concludes that this ...

The number of litigants in person (LiPs) is thought to be rising in New Zealand. This is of increasing concern to the judiciary, court staff, and lawyers who oppose LiPs in proceedings. This article focuses on why people ...

It is commonly believed that more and more people are going to court without a lawyer, both in New Zealand and in other common law jurisdictions. The right to appear in court in person is essential to the legitimacy of the ...

This report summarises the results of a study about the provision of pro bono legal services in New Zealand. The study was conducted in two phases from September 2018 to February 2019 as part of a wider project about free ...

‘Unbundled legal services’ and ‘unbundling’ are terms that can be used to describe the practice of providing a limited set of legal services in a litigation matter, accompanied by the expectation that the client will proceed ...

Delays in the court process are a key obstacle in accessing justice. Delay creates costs; not only in the loss of time but also financial and psychological costs. These costs are borne by the litigants, the economy, and ...