To effectively deal with the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, we must determine whether the adversarial legal system we practice meets the end of justice for our country. If it does ...

As a parent with 20 years of experience dealing with the family-law system in B.C., I think the system is broken. It needs to be redesigned to serve the children’s interests, reducing the stresses ...

Justice is adversarial. From the presentation of arguments in a case, to the physical layout of the courtroom, the justice system is inescapably built on the presentation of opposing views by opposing ...

Our adversarial system, under which lawyers present their clients’ cases to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury), has been around for hundreds of years. In civil and criminal cases, attorneys gather ...

The American legal system is expensive, making justice inaccessible to many. Mediation offers a more affordable and efficient alternative to traditional adversarial legal proceedings. In the late ...

Note: This is part four of a six-part online symposium on the use of forensics in the criminal justice system. You can read the introduction and part one here, part two here and part three here. You ...