The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters has released its annual progress report on the Justice Development Goals. The report offers insights on developments in nine areas deemed essential for better access to justice in Canada. The nine areas are based on the goals identified in the Action Committee’s 2013 “A Roadmap for Change” report which highlighted the need to:

• Refocus the justice system to reflect and address everyday legal problems
• Make essential legal services available to everyone
• Make courts and tribunals fully accessible multi-service centres for public dispute resolution
• Make coordinated and appropriate multidisciplinary family services easily accessible
• Create local and national access to justice implementation mechanisms
• Promote a sustainable, accessible and integrated justice agenda through legal education
• Enhance the innovation capacity of the civil and family justice system
• Support access to justice to promote evidence-based policy making
• Promote coherent, integrated and sustained funding strategies

This year’s Action Committee report also includes a section on the justice sector’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Canada’s Justice Development Goals 2020: Challenge and Change” is available in English here: http://www.justicedevelopmentgoals.ca/sites/default/files/jdgreport2020challengechange.pdf.

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