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Recently, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, a group broadly representative of leaders across Canada in the field of civil and family justice, and chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell, emphasized the value of front - end services, such as those family justice services funded by this government, especially those that include «live» help.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice is pleased to play a support role in the execution of research and dissemination activities for the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters gratefully acknowledges the following for providing in - kind or financial support:

Yellowknife lawyers say the impending closure of the city's law library could have significant impacts on access to justice in the Northwest Territories.

The National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters this week made two reports available to the public.

In the following years annual conferences were held in London in 2005 (on waste legislation), in Helsinki in 2006 (on Natura 2000), in Luxembourg in 2007 (on criminal enforcement of environmental law), in Paris in 2008 (on soil pollution), in Stockholm in 2009 (on the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive), in Brussels in 2010 (on the Application of European Biodiversity Law at national level), in Warsaw in 2011 (on Environmental Protection and Town and Country Planning), in The Hague in 2012 (on the Role of EU Environmental Law in the Courts of the Member States, in Vienna in 2013 (on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) and in Budapest in 2014 (on Environmental Impact Assessment).

As many people know, I have retired from the Supreme Court of Canada, but been asked by Chief Justice McLachlin to remain active as Chair of this Committee, continuing to build momentum on access to justice in Canada.

For example, the cost of civil matters can vary but according to an October 2013 report published by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, national ranges of legal fees may vary from «$ 13,561 — $ 37,229 for a civil action up to trial (2 days), $ 23,083 — $ 79,750 for a civil action up to trial (5 days), $ 38,296 — $ 124,574 for a civil action up to trial (7 days)»

The most recent report of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters — A Roadmap for Change, October 2013 — called for more access to justice research in order to promote evidence - based policymaking.

The Court considered the Supreme Court of Canada's statement on access to justice in B.C.G.E.U. v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1988] 2 S.C.R. 214 («BCGEU»)(at 200): «There can not be a rule of law without access, otherwise the rule of law is replaced by a rule of men and women who decide who shall and who shall not have access to justice.»

National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, Final Report: «Access to Civil & Family Justice — A Roadmap for Change» October 2013

Your suggested «council» already exists: The Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters of which CJ McLachlin in the honorary chair.

The one - case - one - judge court model was considered and strongly recommended in the final report of the Family Justice Working Group, one of four working groups of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

Today Woody joins us to share the background and history of unbundled legal services, and how it is positioned to have a tremendous impact on access to justice in the future.

The committee will act on recommendations outlined in Access to Civil & Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change, released in October by the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

This trend is having a wide - ranging impact on the justice system, as documented by the National Self - Represented Litigants Project and the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

The Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters launched the #justiceforall campaign designed to raise public understanding of accessible justice challenges as a component of a healthy democracy.

As work to improve access to justice in civil and family matters continues to gain momentum across Canada, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters is pleased to announce the launch of a major project to develop and publish a Status Report on the State of Access to Justice in Canada.

Justice Cromwell also discussed the challenges of access to justice and touched on the work of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, which he chairs.

On March 13, 2015 the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters (the Action Committee) convened a meeting for existing provincial and territorial access to justice groups (P / T A2J groups), many of which were formed in response to recommendation 5.1 of the Action Committee's Roadmap Report.

This Working Group works under the sponsorship of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters in the context of the Roadmap for Change recommendations 8.1 and 8.2:

The Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters has reported that the cost of a civil action up to a 5 - day trial ranges from $ 23,083 to $ 79,750 (Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, «Access to Civil & Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change» (Ottawa, October 2013) at 4, n 29 [Action Committee]-RRB-.

Jeff is also the representative of the Federation on Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, where he is a member of the Steering Committee.

[6] Report of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, Access to Civil & Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change (2003), at page 15 — «Access to justice must become more than a vague and aspirational principle.

Various Studies on Access to Justice in Tennessee There have been multiple studies on access to justice issues and civil legal needs done over the years.

The Society is engaged in similar dialogue at the national level, through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is working to improve access to legal services, and with groups such as the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

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I think we've reached consensus on this point, as the truckload of recent reports from the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, the Canadian Bar Association and a handful of law societies seems to suggest.

The report, Ensuring Access to Justice in England and Wales, compiled by an independent working group on access to justice in environmental matters, looked at whether current law and practice prevent individuals and groups from achieving access to justice in environmental matters.

The Canadian Bar Association and the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters have been trying, over the last couple of years, to stimulate interest nationally in empirical justice research.

First, the 2012 report of the Family Justice Working Group (PDF) of the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, recommended that each jurisdiction establish its own unified family court with:

Jeff currently chairs the Federation's Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services and represents Council on Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

Also published on the Access to Justice in Canada blog: Part 1, August 12, 2014; and Part 2, August 14, 2014; and pp. 1 - 3 excerpted on the Slaw blog, Sept. 11, 2014: «Thursday Thinkpiece: Chasse on Law Societies and Unaffordable Legal Services.»

It was recently announced, for example, that the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Legal Innovation Zone at Ryerson University will partner to launch the Ontario Access to Justice Challenge (A2J) which will «foster the growth and success of startups that are developing products, technologies, processes, and solutions that have a direct positive impact on access to justice in Ontario.»

And on the Access to Justice in Canada blog, «The Failure of Law Societies to Accept Their Duty in Law to Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem,» Part 1 on August 12, 2014, & Part 2 on August 14, 2014.

In Ontario, TAG — The Action Group on Access to Justice was recently established, following recommendations like those from the Canadian Bar Association and the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters (NAC).

The final report of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters,

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal problems ever make it to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.

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 Canadians.

Two weeks ago, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters released the Colloquium Report.

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 justice.

A number were proposed in the Final Report of the Family Justice Working Group of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

But law societies are expanding the field of professionals they authorize to give legal advice: see the Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group, May, 2012, of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters.

(vi) while every group experiences civil needs, the poorest and most vulnerable experience more frequent and more complex, interrelated civil legal problems: Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Matters, Family Justice Reform - A Review of Reports and Initiatives: Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, online http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/sites/default/files/docs/2013/Family%20Justice%20Reform%20Review%20-%20April%2015%20Final.pdf.

Last week, the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Justice Tom Cromwell, released for public consultation two of four reports from its working groups.

Earlier this month, Kirk Makin of the Globe and Mail scooped an announcement of a major set of Reports on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, an inititaitive that started with the Chief Justice's challenge to the Canadian Bar Association last summer.

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... [more]

In 2008, responding to these concerns, the Chief Justice initiated, and is the Honourary Chair of, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, made up of leaders from all of the key sectors of the justice community and public representatives.

Law reform commissions as well as self - standing initiatives such as the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters have made this sort of rethinking a priority for moving forward.