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About Noel Semple

Noel Semple is Associate Professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. Noel studies access to justice. His work asks how the law and legal institutions work in real life. It also aspires to improve the ability of law and legal institutions to actually create justice.

Posts by Noel Semple

Courting Culture Change for Access to Justice

You Live and You Learn, but You Leave Wounds Behind You

How Singapore Beat Court Delay

A Sounder Footing for Ontario’s Tribunals: The Fewer Backlogs and Less Partisan Tribunals Act

Tribunals: The Access to Justice Advantage

Systemic Racism, Clients, and the Law Societies

The Legal Ethics of Delay

The Cream of the Crop? King’s Counsel and Certified Specialists in Ontario

Wrongful Convictions and Wrongful Exonerations

Adjudicative Tribunals: In Need of Friends in High Places

A Charter Right to Advise — Even Without a License?

Justice Denied: Constitutional Remedies for Systemic Delay

What Makes a Settlement “Bad”? Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Diamond, and the Limits of Private Resolutions

On a Slow Train to Nowhere: Paralegal Family Law Practice in Ontario

Online and in-Person Hearings: The Best of Both Worlds

Justice in Tribunals: At the Government’s Whim

Justice in Your Neighbourhood?

Building Up the Rule of Law in Ontario- Ministerial Zoning Orders and the Ford Government

Civil Procedure and Practice in Ontario: A New, Comprehensive and Free Guide

What’s Your Procedural Pet Peeve?

Standards, Rules, and Law’s Quest for Certainty

The Accountability Gap and the Struggles of Our Civil Justice System

Justice Delayed and Denied in Ontario’s Tribunals

If You See Something, Say Nothing: Why Lawyers Don’t Report to the Law Society

Judicial Analytics: Facing Uncomfortable Truths

A Good Day for Self-Regulation: The LSO’s Family Law Paralegal Proposal

Admissions Season Reflections

The British Invasion: Legal Services Regulation Edition

Harassment in the Legal Profession: A Few Bad Apples?

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Canadian Legal Ethics