Abstract
As various programs for self-represented litigants proliferate and costs increase, funding agencies are beginning to demand that programs demonstrate their effectiveness through empirical evaluation. This article recounts some of the lessons learned from a National Center for State Courts' research project on improving access to justice for self-represented litigants. First, the article briefly describes the problems faced by courts as a result of the influx of self-represented litigants. The article then describes automated case-level data and litigant self-reported data from five jurisdictions and some preliminary findings. We conclude with a discussion of problems that we encountered in analyzing those data.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Information
24 Justice System Journal 163-181 (2003)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula and Mott, Nicole, "Research on Self-Represented Litigation: Preliminary Results and Methodological Considerations" (2003). Faculty Publications. 2353.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2353