Civil Non-Family Cases Filed in the Supreme Court of BC

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CFCJ Law and Empiricism

Intended study on attrition in civil cases basically couldn't happen because of limits to information courts can provide

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no client phone numbers

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Research Challenges and Lessons Learned

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Court Services electronic data system has no breakdown of case types within the General Civil category

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no system available to researchers to ascertain the extent of client contact information in the hard copy files, nor to assess the quality, comprehensiveness and reliability of other case information

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lack of documentation in the case files

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almost no files contained documents indicating whether, when or how a case had been resolved

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more consistent filing of Notices of Discontinuance

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no record of claimant telephone numbers entered on the case records

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using Canada 411, Google and Facebook trying to match up the address on the court records, where these were available, with the name of the claimants

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only twenty completed interviews out of an original sample of 495 cases

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impossible to identify whether the case had been pursed without representation

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most did not understand the steps that had been undertaken by counsel

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since litigators feel that out-of-court settlements are beneficial to claimants and the courts, they do not feel that a significant access to justice problem exists in these cases

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