Nudging the Paradigm Shift, Everyday Legal Problems in Canada /

The Prevalence of Everyday Legal Problems The results of the 2014 CFCJ survey indicate that 48.4% of adult Canadians will experience one or more everyday legal problems they consider to be serious and difficult to resolve within a three-year period.9 The basic results of the survey are similar to previous national legal problems surveys carried out in Canada.10 Table I: Results of National Legal P [...] As noted above, the defining feature of the research is that it looks at problems from the point of view of the people experiencing them and not from the perspective of the traditional formal justice system. [...] However, it is possible, and important, to characterize the seriousness of the problems from the point of the view of the people involved. [...] LEGAL PROBLEMS DEALT WITH IN THE FORMAL JUSTICE SYSTEM One of the main propositions underlying this approach is that the nature and extent of the legal problems experienced by the public cannot be examined simply by looking at the problems dealt with by the formal justice system. [...] The Additive Effect of Experiencing Everyday Legal Problems An intriguing aspect of multiple problems is that experiencing everyday legal problems appears to create momentum.28 The momentum or additive effect may be the result of the tendency for certain problems to 27 This calculation is based on the number of respondents indicating.