Opening the Flood Gates or the Access Gates? Licensing and Regulation of Paralegals for Access to Justice in Nigeria and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We live in a world where, most times, the law’s promises go unfulfilled. The access to justice crisis, specifically the unaffordability and unavailability of legal services, makes it impossible for most people to access the remedies the law provides. In this thesis, I examine the problem of access to legal services in Nigeria and Canada. The central focus of this thesis is whether and how community-based paralegals in Nigeria can help improve access to legal services, mainly by providing services for legal needs that usually involve the formal justice system. I specifically seek to answer the question of whether Nigeria needs to make changes or adjustments to its community-based paralegal model to make it capable of meeting these important legal needs or whether, in addition to that model, there is a need to adopt the “independent paralegal” model some provinces operate in Canada. To answer this question, I use Canada as a case study. I examine how the regulation of legal services in Canada through the “profe
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".