If judges are biased there, are they biased here? Conclusion

By Joel Miller ( June 17, 2022, 3:34 PM EDT) -- A study of Indiana judges shows them to have a negative bias against the cases of family self-reps and see self-rep cases as having less merit than those of parties with counsel. In Ontario’s superior court uncounselled litigants have a skewed loss rate when facing counselled parties. Are the results here because our judges have the same bias? Is the architecture of our family justice system biased against self-reps? Or is it all the fault of self-reps themselves? This is the last of a series asking these questions. There are no answers we can be proud of....

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