In March the Action Committee on Access to Justice and Family Matters convened a meeting of provincial and territorial access to justice groups.
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has posted a short blog on the meeting as well as short updates from A2J groups in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Access them here.
The Winkler Institute blog has a post by Nicole Aylwin on the first Family Justice and Mental Health Social Lab in Ontario.
The Chicago Tribune has a story on how the ABA is using technology to make legal services more accessible.
Canadian Lawyer has this piece on the new research and information sheet from CFCJ.
Mirroring Noel Semple’s listserv post, this post mentions that the Windsor Yearbook on Access to Justice has become an open access journal.
Attached is the first fact sheet coming out of the Cost of Justice project at the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
This fact sheet proceeds the release of three research papers that analyze the preliminary data from our national “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” survey. We expect to release these papers over the course of the next 2 months.
Richard Zorza has posted on an upcoming ABA Equal Justice Conference and self-represented litigant pre-conference.
At Open Law Lab, there is a post on the development of medical-legal partnerships in the US.
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