Sentences with phrase «canadian justice community»

These issues have been circling round in my head, and so it was with great interest that I noted Osgoode Dean Lorne Sossin's recent tweet announcing publication of a paper he wrote with Sabrina Lyon, Data and Diversity In the Canadian Justice Community.

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In a 1994 Angus Reid poll, for example, one - in - five Canadians who thought crime was on the rise in their communities (19 %) said — unprompted — that justice system leniency was part of the problem.

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Flip Your Wig for Justice is a pledge - based fundraiser to support seven justice groups: the Association in the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Community Legal Education Ontario, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, the Ontario Justice Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario, and Pro Bono Students Justice is a pledge - based fundraiser to support seven justice groups: the Association in the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Community Legal Education Ontario, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, the Ontario Justice Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario, and Pro Bono Students justice groups: the Association in the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Community Legal Education Ontario, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, the Ontario Justice Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario, and Pro Bono Students Justice Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario, and Pro Bono Students Canada.

This month's Canadian Lawyer has its annual Top 25 Most Influential in the justice system and legal profession ranking, and I'm delighted to announce that three members of the Slaw community, Malcolm Mercer, Colin Lachance and Adam Dodek have been honoured.

Advocacy Committee: The Advocacy Committee focuses on coordinating efforts to deal with, among other things, issues of barriers to the legal profession by internationally trained lawyers, diversity in the legal community, access to justice, and the role of Canadians in global legal markets.

«These are material increases in funding that will improve access to justice for many within the province, including those in indigenous, rural and remote communities,» said Bill Veenstra, president of the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch.

Today, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association joins a coalition of community and advocacy groups calling for action on Justice Tulloch's police oversight recommendations.

The Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, addressed the latter in her recent lecture to the Canadian Bar Association, but I do not perceive that she or anyone else in the legal community have addressed the fundamental issue that the SRL phenomenon raises: the right to participate in the making of common law; the ability to put a set of interests before the courts that hitherto have not been able to afford to be there — and thus, a rather significant challenge to the validity of the whole body of common law as it stands.

There is considerable discussion these days about how the legal community can help to increase access to justice for Canadian citizens.

The website is the result of a collaborative effort involving the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the Nova Scotia Judiciary, the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society, the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Department of Community Services, the Canadian Bar Association — Nova Scotia Branch, and the Capital District Health Authority (Mental Health Program).

Candidates are then interviewed by the 11 - member Provincial Court Nominating Committee, which has representatives from the Alberta Provincial Court, the Law Society of Alberta, the Alberta branch of the Canadian Bar Association and people from the province's legal community and the public appointed by the minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

Peacebuilders» core program, Restorative Youth Circles (RYC), is a highly respected, volunteer - driven program that has won many awards including the Canadian Criminal Justice Associations» Crime Prevention Award, the City of Toronto Mayor's 2008 Community Safety Award and the Toronto Community Foundations» 2009 Vital Ideas Award.

Sinclair was awarded one of the first National Aboriginal Achievement awards in 1994, and quickly began receiving many other community service awards, including the Manitoba Bar Association's Equality Award and its Distinguished Service Award.In 2015, he was awarded the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice's Medal of Justice, awarded for distinctive leadership in the administration of justice in Justice's Medal of Justice, awarded for distinctive leadership in the administration of justice in Justice, awarded for distinctive leadership in the administration of justice in justice in Canada.

FACL is a diverse coalition working to promote equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Canadian legal professionals and the wider community.

For her pioneering work in adapting Peacebuilding Circles to Toronto's diverse inner - city communities, Eva was awarded of the prestigious Law Society Medal from the Law Society of Upper Canada, the YMCA Peace Medallion in 2006, the Canadian Congress on Criminal Justices» Crime Prevention Award in 2007, the Dianne Martin Medal for Social Justice Through Law in 2009, became a Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation in 2010 and on October 3, 2013, became the first recipient of the Roy McMurtry Community Service Award.

Eugene Meehan, Q.C. is quoted in the Canadian Lawyer & Law Times blog as saying, «given how long the process for selecting Supreme Court justices has been a concern, having a clear process set down in writing is a welcome change for the legal community and public alike.»

An initial study published in the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health indicated that offenders who participated in the Winnipeg Mental Health Court had reduced contact with the criminal justice system.

The only one of its kind in Toronto, Courtroom 807 at 393 University Avenue is outfitted for «electronic» trials, a trend many in the legal community see as essential to the evolution of the Canadian justice system.

The committee concludes that the entry of stays of proceedings for those persons already convicted of a heinous crimes like murder or child sexual assault — or who have been charged but whose trials have not been completed — shocks the conscience of the Canadian community and brings the administration of justice into disrepute.

We have a booming tech sector, a vibrant legal community, a stellar law school, the national headquarters for both the Canadian Bar Association and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Canada's Parliament, its Supreme and Federal courts, and the Federal Department of Justice.

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The Canadian market for legal services is sufficiently tight in certain communities and sectors, that adoption of inflexible rules has implications for access to justice.

It is a unique event which will introduce law students, as well as professionals within the legal community (lawyers, judges, court administrators, etc.) to different IT related themes such as the impact of new technologies (e-discovery and videoconference) on traditional justice mechanisms and ADR; the role already played by technology in Canadian courtrooms and around the world; as well as a look at what the future holds.

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