Canada's law societies have a duty in law to solve the “unaffordable legal services problem,” i.e., that the majority of the population cannot obtain legal services at reasonable cost. The problem has been developing over decades during which years the law societies have failed to act. The...

Canada's law societies have allowed the problem of unaffordable legal services to develop over decades without doing anything because: (1) they do not accept the principle that the duty to solve the problem arises from their duty in law to regulate the legal profession; and, (2) they have never...

The access to justice problem of unaffordable legal services (the A2J problem) afflicts the majority of society. Its cause is the obsolescence of the method by which lawyers produce legal services. Lawyers use what economists call a “cottage industry” method of production—the manufacturer...