A newly published paper by The Advocates’ Society (TAS) calls for Canada’s federal and provincial governments to implement and fully resource Unified Family Courts across Canada, in areas where this service is not available. Delay No Longer: Family Justice Now highlights the crisis in Canada’s family court system, which the paper identifies as exacerbated by inefficiencies, costs, and delays created by the handling of family law matters by a two-tiered family court system.

Unified Family Courts are specialized and would allow for all family law matters to be handled in one place. The Unified Family Court was first introduced in Canada in the 1970s.

The paper examines:

• The Current State of Unified Family Court Expansion in Canada
• What Unified Family Courts Do and Why they Matter
• Benefits of Unified Family Courts
• Possible Challenges for the Broader Implementation of Unified Family Courts

Delay No Longer: Family Justice Now – A Call to Implement the Unified Family Court Across Canada by The Advocates’ Society is available online here: https://www.advocates.ca/Upload/Files/PDF/Advocacy/DelayNoLonger/Delay_No_Longer_Family_Justice_Now_June_2024.pdf.