"As I've been reflecting on different patterns and models of Access projects, I've realized that we should be investing in a massive Legal Pathways Mapping project. We should be creating consistent (and hopefully also smart, interactive, encoded) maps of all the legal procedures that are amenable to be mapped."

Blogger Steen can't find way to drag drop Margaret's drawing:
(Cartoon drawing of Face + path -----1----2---3----4----(what looks like a rocket taking off); Text reads "Legal Mapping what is the step-by-step process version of a person's legal experience, so we can lay it out visually for them to see." )
"The output would be usable, procedural, visuals, to give people a birds eye view of the legal world they are living in, and the specific steps they can take to move along the path.
I hear requests for legal infographics from people outside the legal sector who want to be more literate in law. But I don't think traditional infographics, with a smattering of facts, data points, and graphs are what will be most useful. Visuals that talk through the basics of a legal topic have some use, but process-based maps -- whether they are the 1-2-3-4-5 of steps to get through a procedure, or the branching decision tree to tell you if you are eligible for a legal procedure or not -- have much greater value."
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My online comment to Margaret' posting:

"All well and good if the legal system you are dealing with is built on a solid foundation; if the prescribed RULES of PROCEDURE are clearly and sensibly defined; if those in charge of that system strictly adhere to the aforesaid; if, indeed, due process is based on proof by fact; where issues dealt with at all time relate; where procedure is clearly defined and relevant to the issues at hand. Where progress towards a finite interpretation is at all times visible.
If NOT, all functions in a maze, and any directives only help to further confuse."

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Sitting back now to mull this over, I take stock of my 'realities.' 
It is another Spring gradually awakening on the Wet Pacific Coast. Spring, as it does out here, is a bit of a teaser. Now you think it's here; then there's another wallop of a storm, and cold weather. Well, 'cold' from our perspective; nothing compares to the East, or even Alberta.  

So again, today, Spring indicates it's HERE! The sun beckons me outside; the garden invites to aerate earth and prepare for seeding; mason bees are pollinating first blossoms; recently returned green-violet swallows are checking out the skies; Mr. Rufus has arrived. 

And this old man is thinking twice, with a knick-knack tally-wack ...  
What is important lies in the head. Let's take stock; let's assess what's really REAL...>

In Nature, the strong and adaptable survive. Territories have been allotted, systems defined; those who belong, adhere; those who question, eliminated. These are the rules; anything else, is merely window-dressing; a pretense for fools to hang themselves. 

"Hey though": say I, "at 76, I got this far..." But then sets in the 'BUT.' Did you really think you were going to achieve 'Justice?' That you would get your promised day in court?  I mean the one where they actually dealt with the issues, as per indicated in their Rules? Not the various and plural ill-defined and questionable sessions you attended by telephone, in your distant foreign Jurisdiction? You know the one called BRITISH Columbia? WHAT were you thinking? To make sense of it all? To make a difference? Lil-old -YOU? 

Maybe, for now, its time to tackle a different cause; to wait and see how Kaiser Harper fares after the Duffy senate scandal's dust has settled, and the Nation has voted, and spoken....> all 38 % to bring in another majority government?  Oh, the utter SENSE of it all :)>.  
   
I think, in between tilling and seeding, I'll take on my more local BC Hydro. They're an entire kettle of fish all their own. Have a peek at my CNSRLN.blogspot.ca posting.

For now, I'll leave my futile efforts, taking the Rules of Civil Procedure apart, and leave them for some later winter's musings.

'Time heals all wounds' they say.