Apr 12, 2016 1:32 AM

"Her ongoing study, called the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, consists of hundreds of interviews with Canadians who have chosen to forgo paying a lawyer so they can shepherd their own cases in court. She said she�s gathered that people seem to feel more entitled to challenge legal bills than in the past, based partially on what she believes is a cultural shift toward more willingness to challenge authority. "

"According to her research, between 2004 and 2014, 95 per cent of applications by a represented party to settle a court matter � called summary judgments � were successful against litigants without lawyers."