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42 Queen's L.J. 1 (2016-2017)
The Legal Services Gap: Access to Justice as a Regulatory Issue

handle is hein.journals/queen42 and id is 7 raw text is: The Legal Services Gap: Access to Justice as a Regulatory Issue The Honourable Justice Thomas A. Cromwell* & Siena Anstis** The gab between the needfor legal serices and the abilip of people to obtain them continues to grow, and legal aid and other means of making justice more accessible are (by themselves) insuffcient to address the issue. This article considers an emerging dmension of the access to justice issue: the intersection bet een legal services regulation and the legal serces ga. The 'a in which the legal profession is regulated affects ho people access legal serices, and it is incumbent upon regulatop bodes-as well as the wider legalprofession-toprortie regu/latory reform that aims to remedy the access tojstice cisis in Canada. This article describes in more detail ho is affected by the legal seruices gab and considers how existing regulator pracdces and structures impede access tojustice and can be reformed to help close the legal services gap. Rules on w ho can prouide legal services, restricdons on unbundled legal services and pro bono regulation are but some of the issues explored. Access to justice has not been giuen its due importance as a regulatoy issue, and this article is intended as a call to action: EveUy sector involved in the justice ystem, inparticular regulator bodes, has to do better if there is to be meaninfl imp rovement in access to justice. * The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell, LL.B. (Queen's University), B.C.L. (Oxon.); LL.D (Honords Causa, Queen's University; Dalhousie University; Law Society of Upper Canada), D.H.C. (Universite de Moncton). ** Law Clerk (2015 to 2016) to The Honourable Justice Cromwell, B.C.L./LL.B. (McGill University), B.A. (Concordia University). T. A. Cromwell & S. Anstis 1

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