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Nudging the Paradigm Shift: Everyday Legal Problems in Canada

This paper presents the basic results from the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Study, Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada (2014). The results of the study are similar to previous national legal problems studies carried out in Canada and similarly with the international body of legal problems following the approach taken in Genn’s Paths to Justice research. In addition, the recent Canadian research reports new results on two topics; on the cost of everyday legal problems for both individuals and the state and on the legal capability of Canadians. The replication of previous results and the addition of new data contribute to the access to justice literature and to the discourse surrounding it by nudging the paradigm shift in access to justice away from an exclusive focus on legal problems primary dealt with in the courts to a broader concern with the full range of everyday legal problems experienced by the public.