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Poor People Also Can Have a Lawsuit in American America’s courts are built on a system of rules and procedures that assume t
Poor People Also Can Have a Lawsuit in American America’s courts are built on a system of rules and procedures that assume t
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2013-07-08
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Poor People Also Can Have a Lawsuit in American
America’s courts are built on a system of rules and procedures that assume that almost everyone who comes to court has a lawyer. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. An increasing number of civil cases go forward without lawyers. Litigants who cannot afford a lawyer, and either do not qualify for legal aid or are unable to have a lawyer assigned to them because of dwindling budgets, are on their own prose. What’s more, they’re often on their in cases involving life-altering situations like divorce, child custody and loss of shelter.
As the economy has worsened, the ranks of the self-represented poor have expanded. In a recent informal study conducted by the Self-Represented Litigation Network, about half the judges who responded reported a greater number of prose litigants as a result of the economic crisis. Unrepresented litigants now also include many in the middle class and small-business owners who unexpectedly find themselves in distress and without sufficient resources to pay for the legal assistance they need.
As judges, we believe more needs to be done to meet this growing challenge: an inaccessible, overburdened justice system serves none of us well. California took a major step forward when it became the first state to recognize as a goal the right to counsel in certain civil cases. But this is only a beginning. It is essential that we promote other efforts to close the "justice gap". One such effort involves the "unbundling" of legal services. Forty-one states have adopted a model rule drafted by the American Bar Association, or similar provisions, which allow lawyers to take only part of a case, a cost-saving practice known as "limited-scope representation" that is responsive to new realities.
Traditionally, lawyers have been required to stay with a case from beginning to end, unless a court has excused them from this obligation. Now, in those states that explicitly or implicitly allow unbundling, people or businesses can hire a lawyer to help them fill out forms, to prepare documents, to coach them on how to present in court or to appear in court for hearings. What could be wrong with this? Well, some lawyers have expressed concern that limited legal representation will encourage litigants to dissect their cases in an effort to save money, sacrificing quality representation that the litigant might otherwise be able to afford. We have also heard the argument that by offering too much assistance to self-represented litigants, the courts themselves are undermining the value of lawyers and the legal profession. Apparently, some are concerned that the court system will become so user-friendly that there will be no need for lawyers.
From the first paragraph, we can learn that______.
选项
A、it is illegal if litigants don’t have a lawyer in America courts
B、the number of self-represented litigants is increasing
C、America’s court system is built on the basis of meeting the reality
D、litigants can only pay for the legal assistance by themselves
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。根据题干关键词first paragraph定位到原文第一段第四句:Litigantswho cannot afford a lawyer,and either dO not qualify for legal aid or are unable to have alawyer assigned to them because of dwindling budgets,are on their own prose.那些既请不起律师又不够资格享受法律援助或由于缩减经费没被安排辩护律师的诉讼当事人,只能独自出庭。由此可知,有一些诉讼人如果自己请不起律师可以申请法律援助,故选[B]项。
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考研英语一
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