Browsing by Author "Toy-Cronin, Bridgette"
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Compounding the Abuse: Family Violence, Damages and the Tenancy Tribunal
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteIn cases where family violence has caused damage to a rented home, a tenant-victim is often found to be liable for that damage. This article considers the interpretation of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (RTA) that ... -
Counsel’s Tables? Seating Counsel and Litigants-in-Person in the Courtroom
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteWhere should litigants-in-person (LiPs) sit in the courtroom? Do they have a right to sit at “counsel’s tables” or do they need leave? Why have certain practices developed in this regard and why do they matter? These ... -
A Defence of the Right to Litigate in Person
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThis 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’ ... -
Designing Online Court Forms: Recommendations for Courts and Tribunals in Aotearoa
Toy-Cronin, Bridgette; Nichols, David M; Cunningham, Sally Jo -
Ethical Issues in Insider-Outsider Research
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteA substantial literature has developed within the humanities and social sciences about ‘insider research.’ This article considers the advantages (including greater access, understanding and rapport) and disadvantages (lack ... -
An Evaluation of Legal Information Chatbots: Useability, Utility, and Accuracy
Toy-Cronin, Bridgette; Pirini, Mihiata; Turner, David; Duncan, Dawn -
Feminist Judgment of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThis 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 ... -
From Litigator to Researcher: the Burdens and Benefits of Moving between the Profession and the Academy
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteA researcher who understands litigation practice and is connected to the profession has advantages in terms of accessing and interpreting the litigation setting. However, the knowledge and connections complicate relationships ... -
I Ain't No Fool: Deciding to Litigate in Person in the Civil Courts
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThe 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 ... -
Just an Hour of Your Time? Providing Limited (Unbundled) Assistance to Litigants in Person
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThis article considers the landscape for “unbundled” legal assistance in New Zealand. The author draws on and discusses the substantial international literature and data from a study conducted on litigants in person in the ... -
Keeping Up Appearances: Accessing New Zealand's Civil Courts as a Litigant in Person
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteIt 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 ... -
A Limited Welcome: Methods and Motives for Communicating Outsider Status to Litigants in Person
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteLitigants are the central party in an adversarial system and yet litigants in person (LiPs) receive the message that they are outsiders in the court process. Drawing on doctoral research that involved interviews with LiPs, ... -
New Business Models for Legal Services
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThis working paper outlines possible innovations to legal services, drawing on examples of new models developing both here and abroad. -
New Zealand lawyers, Pro Bono, and Access to Justice
Stewart, Kayla; Toy-Cronin, Bridgette; Choe, LouisaThis 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 ... -
The New Zealand Legal Services Mapping Project: Finding Free and Low-Cost Legal Services Pilot Report
Stewart, Kayla; Toy-Cronin, BridgetteMost lawyers charge on an hourly basis and the average charge-out rate in 2016 was $292.70 (excluding GST and disbursements). This puts private lawyers out of reach for many New Zealanders whose median weekly earnings in ... -
Online Legal Information Self-Help in Aotearoa: An agenda for action
Turner, David; Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThis report reviews international experience in the development of online legal information and self-help (OLISH) provided by government, community organisations, and social enterprises. It uses this experience to examine ... -
Unbundling Litigation Services in New Zealand: Where to next?
Cunninghame, Allie; Toy-Cronin, Bridgette‘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 ... -
What is Forced Marriage: Towards a Definition of Forced Marriage as a Crime Against Humanity
Toy-Cronin, BridgetteThe Special Court for Sierra Leone’s Trial and Appeals Chambers handed down judgments considering, for the first time, forced marriage as a crime against humanity. This article critiques those decisions against the Appeals ... -
The Wheels of Justice: Understanding the Pace of Civil High Court Cases
Toy-Cronin, Bridgette; Irvine, Bridget; Stewart, Kayla; Henaghan, MarkDelays 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 ...