{"id":739,"date":"2020-10-15T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2020-12-30T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:17:12","slug":"right-to-counsel-r2c-the-time-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/15\/right-to-counsel-r2c-the-time-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"RIGHT TO COUNSEL R2C &#8211; THE TIME IS NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that everyone who is charged with a criminal offense is entitled to representation by legal counsel &#8211; regardless of their ability to pay. But what about civil court, especially Landlord-Tenant matters? How is it that, in something as fundamentally important as a place to live, tenants are not guaranteed that same Right to Counsel, as a right, regardless of ability to pay? Anyone who&#8217;s ever witnessed the operation of local Landlord\/Tenant Courts knows that virtually every landlord is represented by an attorney while hardly any tenant is so represented.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmvut.org%2Fblog%2F2020%2F10%2F15%2Fright-to-counsel-r2c-the-time-is-now%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that everyone who is charged with a criminal offense is entitled to representation by legal counsel &#8211; regardless of their ability to pay. But what about civil court, especially Landlord-Tenant matters? How is it that, in something as fundamentally important as a place to live, tenants are not guaranteed that same Right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvut.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}