On SLAW, Karen Dyck asks “What If…” – a sort of desiderata for improving access to justice. What would you add to the What ifs?
Category National
We Versus Me: Normative Legislation, Individual Exceptionalism and Access to Family Justice
On SLAW, JP Boyd offers a thoughtful piece on complexity, justice and access in family law (but likely relevant to other areas also).
Creating the Conditions for Justice Innovation: How (NOT) to Solve Complex Problems
Nicole Aylwin of CFCJ explores the ideal conditions for justice innovation http://www.slaw.ca/2014/12/19/creating-the-conditions-for-justice-innovation-how-not-to-solve-complex-problems/
Digital Delivery of Legal Services to People on Low Incomes
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Wonderful work from the The Legal Education Foundation.
“We are very pleased to have commissioned this Report from Roger Smith. We hope that the Report will stimulate others to let us know of advances that they are making or are aware of others making in this important area of using information technology to provide low cost legal service to people. These developments are not a magic bullet but taken together they can make a difference to the lives of a lot of people. We intend to update the Report on an annual basis as a record of developments in the provision of IT based legal service.”
Guy Beringer
Chairman of Governors
Working With Self-Represented Litigants: Ideas and Suggestions From the Bench
A small Working Group of judges, representing jurisdictions across Canada, and who hear SRLs on a regular basis in their courtrooms have been working together for three months to produce “Working with SRLs: Ideas and Suggestions from the Bench”. This unique document was formally launched on November 27th, 2014!
Unified Family Courts: An Established Mechanism for Improving Access to Justice
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Are unified family courts a magic bullet? J.P Boyd of the Canadian Research Institute for Law explores the potential on the CFCJ blog. http://ow.ly/FmW41
Data Collection Completed for “Cost of Justice” Project
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
We have completed the data collection stages for our Cost of Justice national survey project! Here are some of our initial findings: – Over 35% of people reported stress, health, family and/or social issues as a result of experiencing legal problems. – Over a three-year period over 50% of adults reported experiencing one or more legal problems. – The most common problems were related to consumer, debt, and employment issues. Read more: http://obiter-dicta.ca/2014/10/14/data-collection-completed-for-cost-of-justice-project/
When Access Isn’t Enough: Examining the Intersection Between Social Inequality and Access to Justice
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
Blog post from Kimberley Byers draws from Alice Goffman’s new book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City and looks at the links between access to justice and social inequality.
Transforming Ideas into Action: A Special Edition of the CFCJ Newsletter
By: Nicole Aylwin
Since the release of the Action Committee’s Final Report last October, justice stakeholders across the country have taken up the challenge to find new ways to innovate, collaborate and inspire others to increase access to justice. Last week the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice published a special edition of its newsletter dedicated to profiling emerging A2J initiatives across the country.
Read the special edition here.
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