Sentences with phrase «access to justice for canadian»

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

Much thanks are due to Rob, for his leadership over the past several years, and to the Law Foundation of Ontario, for their support and their commitment to improving access to justice for all Canadians.

Yet, to achieve access to justice for all Canadians, legal services must be delivered as part of a coordinated and holistic response to local social conditions and needs.

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However, while there are increasing numbers of apps and technologies being developed and integrated into the legal world, it is a mistake to assume that technological developments on their own will necessarily improve access to justice for those Canadians currently struggling.

While up slightly from the $ 34 described in this summer 2011 article, I hope you will agree that it still represents one of the best investments lawyers (and Quebec notaries) can make in support of their professional activities and in support of access to justice for all Canadians.

In her speech, she called on governments, academics, judges and lawyers to work to ensure better access to justice for all Canadians.

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The Canadian Bar Association launched a campaign in Calgary, #whataboutalex, to humanize the struggle for access to justice.

The fact that the majority of Canadians can not afford to seek justice through the current system is a problem which far outstrips in magnitude concerns about maximizing procedural and due process protections for those litigants who are presently able to access the system.

Access to justice continues to be a significant issue for Canadian lawyers and the public, and for good reason.

Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space for considering how to reformulate the future of legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.

In my work with the Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice Committee and the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education, I have observed three major research opportunities for law faculties that are not being given the attention I feel they demand.

It is well known that Canadian lawyers have worked to promote access to justice through both legal aid and pro bono work for many years, and this has generally been conducted at a provincial level.

n Baier v Alberta, 2007 SCC 31 [Baier], Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada articulated a test for whether an underinclusive statutory platform of expression infringes section 2 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and thus whether a claimant has a positive entitlement to access that platform.

The Canadian Bar Association's Access to Justice committee has set some aggressive targets for the next decade and beyond to ensure those who need it have better access to juAccess to Justice committee has set some aggressive targets for the next decade and beyond to ensure those who need it have better access to jJustice committee has set some aggressive targets for the next decade and beyond to ensure those who need it have better access to juaccess to justicejustice.

During the closing session of the Canadian Bar Association's Envisioning Equal Justice Summit: Building Justice for Everyone, held in Vancouver in April, we were asked to come up with one idea from each table to help access to justice and to move justice reform fJustice Summit: Building Justice for Everyone, held in Vancouver in April, we were asked to come up with one idea from each table to help access to justice and to move justice reform fJustice for Everyone, held in Vancouver in April, we were asked to come up with one idea from each table to help access to justice and to move justice reform fjustice and to move justice reform fjustice reform forward.

The idea that limited scope work could improve access to legal help has been cited by many reports on access to justice, but no one has ever conducted any empirical research to test the idea, says [/ span] John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in Calgary.

In a speech to the Canadian Bar Association in August 2007, Justice Beverly McLachlin declared access to justice «a basic right» for Canadians, like education or healtJustice Beverly McLachlin declared access to justice «a basic right» for Canadians, like education or healtjustice «a basic right» for Canadians, like education or health care.

McLachlin, who was selected as a «Top 25 Most Influential Lawyer» by Canadian Lawyer multiple times (most recently in 2015), is widely respected in the legal profession for her leadership on the court as well as her outspokenness on issues such as access to justice, free speech, diversity and inclusive leadership.

«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.

As a starting point to address gaps in both access to justice and access to legal services, for example, lawyers might look to the information provided and questions posed in the excellent Canadian Bar Association Election Engagement Kit recently made available through Envisioning Equal Jjustice and access to legal services, for example, lawyers might look to the information provided and questions posed in the excellent Canadian Bar Association Election Engagement Kit recently made available through Envisioning Equal JusticeJustice.

And for a slew of reasons that I will explore in Part 2 of this column topic, a more elite class of law school graduate spells trouble for the Canadian legal profession's ability to contend with the current crisis of unequal access to justice.

An injection of federal funding in civil legal aid can be one source for the expansion of the role of law school clinics, who can in turn provide the access to justice needed by Canadians.

Access to justice issues have frequented academic, legal, political and mainstream debates for many years (with Slawyers often initiating or driving the dialogue happening in the Canadian blogosphere!).

Missing in law society discussions is the fact that outside investment has an excellent chance of creating better access to justice through greater investment in process and technology that in turn will lower prices for the average Canadian.

In most provinces as well as nationally, rethinking access to justice for meeting the legal needs of Canadian families is a central policy agenda item.

Unfortunately, many Canadian men and women find themselves unable, mainly for financial reasons, to access the Canadian justice system.

Pretty much every report on self - represented litigants, from the work of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family to the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice in Civil and Family Matters to the CBA's Envisioning Equal Justice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible jJustice Initiative to the National Self - represented Litigants Project, agrees that the cost of legal representation is the number one barrier to accessible justicejustice.

The final report of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, A Roadmap for Change, tackles the difficult problem of why this is the case and lays out recommendations for what can be done to bring full access to justice to CanaAccess to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, A Roadmap for Change, tackles the difficult problem of why this is the case and lays out recommendations for what can be done to bring full access to justice to CanJustice in Civil and Family Matters, A Roadmap for Change, tackles the difficult problem of why this is the case and lays out recommendations for what can be done to bring full access to justice to Canaaccess to justice to Canjustice to Canadians.

In a comment to the recent post by Patricia Hughes, Justice B. T. Granger of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice referred to a set of slides for a presentation he had given at the 2008 CBA Canadian Legal Conference in Quebec City entitled «The Future is Now: Improving Access to Justice: The Need for Lawyers and the Judiciary to Go Electronic.»

Indeed, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized one aspect of this demand in numerous recent speeches where she has referenced the access to justice «crisis» in the country, brought about by in part, she asserts, by a legal system that is too costly and too complicated for most CanJustice of the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized one aspect of this demand in numerous recent speeches where she has referenced the access to justice «crisis» in the country, brought about by in part, she asserts, by a legal system that is too costly and too complicated for most Canjustice «crisis» in the country, brought about by in part, she asserts, by a legal system that is too costly and too complicated for most Canadians.

, tackles the difficult problem of why this is the case and lays out recommendations for what can be done to bring full access to justice to Canadians.

Most Canadians will be forgiven for failing to be as joyful as the Benchers were that day, as the agreement does much to enhance lawyer mobility (and hence fee - earning capability), but does nothing to address access to justice.

The Canadian Bar Association's Envisioning Equal Justice consultation paper, Underexplored Alternatives for the Middle Class, recognizes the need to «re-engineer» dispute resolution processes and explores a number of court process reforms as potential means to provide better access to judicial dispute resolution.

Congratulations to Kirsten Morry of Newfoundland and McGill University for her winning essay «Magna Carta and the Canadian Access to Justice Crisis».

In this spirit, I would l like to thank the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice for inviting me to write this post, and for its ongoing efforts to keep access to justice and system reform on the agenda across the cJustice for inviting me to write this post, and for its ongoing efforts to keep access to justice and system reform on the agenda across the cjustice and system reform on the agenda across the country.

The concept of unbundled legal services has been recognized as a measure to improve access to justice for those who fall into the wide and growing gap between Canadians who can afford full representation and those who qualify for legal aid.

That's when the SCC is expected to tackle a challenge over court hearing fees, which the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association B.C. branch say are unconstitutional because they impede access to justice for the middle class.

The key question to explore in relation to ABS + is, «What measures need to be integrated into the regulatory framework in order to encourage or compel access to justice for low - income Canadians?»

I have argued that while the middle class may benefit from gains in access to justice from allowing ABS, the same is unlikely to be true for low - income Canadians.

In this factum, CCD explained that for disadvantaged groups, such as people with disabilities, access to justice requires a robust and effective Canadian Human Rights Commission where issues of discrimination can be addressed.

Lack of access to justice represents a problem where the very legitimacy of the legal system as a way for all Canadians to resolve disputes is at stake.

The Council of Canadians with Disabilities, a national human rights organization, will be appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada in Mowat v. Canada (Attorney General), an appeal about access to justice for victims of discrimination.

See the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and their Access to Justice Blog and Cost of Justice project, for example, as well as the work of the National Self - Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP).

She currently volunteers for Toronto for Acumen (TfA), an official chapter of the Acumen Fund, and also at Peacebuilder's International, a Canadian charity that works to provide at - risk youth with appropriate access to justice.

This makes it more difficult for them to understand the law, compared to other Canadians, and therefore increases their barriers to accessing justice.

Canadian immigration and refugee laws and the IRB's implementation of these laws have come under fierce attack for creating many substantive, procedural and inclusion barriers to access to justice for refugee claimants.

Jeff has been, and continues to be, an advocate for enhancing Canadians» ability to access legal services and for effective, equal access to justice.

Nate Russell is a Canadian lawyer and blogger with a passion for technology, law, access to justice and civil liberties, especially where they intersect.

Nate Russell is a Canadian lawyer and blogger with a passion for technology, law, access to justice and civil...