
The British Columbia Law Institute resource on technology-assisted and remote evidence presentation has just been posted to the Social Science Research Network.

The British Columbia Law Institute resource on technology-assisted and remote evidence presentation has just been posted to the Social Science Research Network.

At Open Law Lab, Margaret Hagan’s posting on whether law schools can be effective innovation incubators.

At Open Law Lab, Margaret Hagan has an interesting piece titled “Is the internet the place for legal help?”.
This means that we should not stake all our work on exclusively Internet-based resources — but that we should still be investing a much larger amount of research, money & development into making the Internet more usable as a legal resource.

On SLAW, Karen Dyck asks “What If…” – a sort of desiderata for improving access to justice. What would you add to the What ifs?

On SLAW, JP Boyd offers a thoughtful piece on complexity, justice and access in family law (but likely relevant to other areas also).

Your Legal Rights provides a Services Map – an interactive guide to key legal and social services in Ontario. Many organizations listed on the web site may have their offices located in Toronto but can help people who live anywhere in Ontario so make sure to browse more than just the map to find the help you need.

Great work by our friends in Nova Scotia! What’s new in access to justice for 2015: Nova Scotia’s first bilingual access to justice centre! The Accès Justice Access centre opened recently at 1663 Brunswick Street in Halifax, as an initiative of the Association des juristes d’expression française de la Nouvelle-Écosse (AJEFNE). The centre offers services in both official languages on site and by telephone, email and online. Free consultations with a lawyer will be available by appointment.

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/

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

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!