LAWS 1000 Lecture 12: week 12 summary

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 1000
• Professor: Steve Tasson

Document Summary

Without access to justice system can we still claim rule of law? . Our canadian courts are composed of four distinct groups of participants: Two types of litigants emerge, galanter (1974) designates them as one-shotters and repeat players. those who use the courts only occasionally are called one-shotters. Illustrations of the one-shotters include an author suing his or her publisher for breach of contract, and a professor filing charges against a university for racial discrimination. Repeat players are those who engage in many similar litigations over a period of time. Whereas one-shotters are usually individuals, repeat players are organizations, such as finance companies, moving companies, and or insurance companies. Research suggests that repeat players (generally organizations) using the courts for the routine processing of clients have the highest success rates and doe better as both plaintiffs and defendants than one-shotters (generally individuals. Mclachlin j. comments that middle-class canadians are being increasingly frozen out of judicialy system.