Views of Ontario Lawyers on Family Litigants Without Representation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The increasing number of family litigants without legal representation poses significant challenges for lawyers, litigants and the justice system. This paper reports on a survey of 335 Ontario family lawyers about their experiences with litigants without legal representation and related access to justice issues. These lawyers report an increase in the number of family litigants without lawyers. They attribute this increase principally to lack of eligibility for legal aid and an inability to afford counsel, but also recognize such factors as a perception that lawyers increase the expense and complexity of resolving cases, and litigants’ belief that they can adequately represent themselves. Participants also recognized that some litigants have a desire to personally confront a former partner. Overall, lawyers report that cases involving litigants without representation take longer and are more costly for their clients to resolve; they also report worse outcomes for many of those without lawyers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it