With two-thirds (65 per cent) of Canadians unable to afford lawyers in family cases, the Canadian legal community is being urged to permit paralegals to take on a larger, and more cost-effective, role. Two Toronto lawyers who also volunteer at a low-income assistance clinic, Jessica Prince and Rory Gillis, are calling on the justice system 'to evolve to meet the needs of the majority' of citizens. Writing in The Globe and Mail, they says: 'paralegals are far better than the alternative: no representation at all. An individual, facing the complexities of the family court system or the intricacies of drafting a will, would surely benefit from the assistance of an experienced legal professional at reasonable rates'.