The Unrepresented Defendant and the Unbundling of Legal Services

Abstract

This project has been focused on contributing to an appreciation of the unrepresented defendant phenomenon in Halifax provincial criminal court and to the examination of possible solutions, including the strategy of a more formal and explicit marketing of “unbundled” legal services. While emphasizing local data, whether that be analyzing secondary data sets or interviewing local CJS officials and unrepresented litigants, some effort has been expended to place patterns in the larger Canadian context through literature review and direct, if limited, examination of similar issues in the Toronto area.