Online information can be the basis
for public legal education and information initiatives that are particularly important with the growing number of self - represented litigants in the courts.
The extremely positive findings of the evaluation support the continued use and further expansion of this innovative model
of public legal education delivery.
Credit students also participate in our community outreach program, attending satellite clinics and working
on public legal education materials and / or presentations.
Legal Help Centre
offers public legal education workshops for people representing themselves in family, estate administration and small claims proceedings.
This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online
public legal education resource.
Think of the boost that would give to legal literacy among university graduates of all kinds, and to
public legal education as a result.
This article will examine five types of online
public legal education activity: portals, topic specific websites, sites designed for specific audiences, publications and videos.
We are currently engaged with four communities of older women to support them in creating policy and
public legal education tools to address some of their most pressing priorities.
Summer students work on case files, attend satellite clinics,
present public legal education workshops and assist with various administrative tasks at the clinic.
On a related note, people who are interested in learning about the law should be able to easily access free, accurate, and
reliable public legal education and self - help materials.
Is now the time
for public legal education to be considered as a credible long term solution, to enable young people to become legally capable and grasp justice with their own hands?
There are compelling reasons for law students to volunteer in law clinics and participate
in public legal education activities.
Their work in
providing public legal education and information is essential to meet the spectrum of legal needs that comprise access to justice, but they can not do it all.
In addition to individual legal services, we also participate in a wide variety of community outreach activities including
delivering public legal education workshops, participating in community forums and collaborating on advocacy initiatives.
To our valued stakeholders and partners: Effective June 30, 2016, Amelia Martin will be resigning from her position as Executive Director of the Centre for
Public Legal Education Alberta for family reasons.
Two organizations have expanded their outreach through a series of newspaper articles in community newspapers, which are also made available online:
Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan's «A Look at the Law» and People's Law School (B.C.).
Community legal aid clinics not only provide individual representation but also address broader systemic problems
through public legal education, community development and law reform initiatives.
«The 2017 CEDAW Report Card shows many areas where the BC government still hasn't stepped up for women, although certainly this year's grades are higher on average than in recent years,» adds Alana Prochuk, Manager of
Public Legal Education at West Coast LEAF.
In this section, you will find research reports
about public legal education issues, including such topics as how to deliver PLE effectively and how to perform needs assessment in PLE.
Anderssen also interviewed several senior family law practitioners in Ontario to identify other creative solutions for implementation here, which included
greater public legal education and devolving much of the family disputes into a tribunal - style model.
You probably wouldn't have much difficulty thinking of a colleague who shares this wag's opinion, spoken in response to presentations on British
public legal education initiatives:
Phase 2 involves 4 organizations: PovNet (a poverty - law network), Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), Éducaloi (Quebec - based
public legal education site), and Courthouse Libraries BC.
This year I wanted to focus more on the Métis than Louis himself because the Métis Nation of Ontario and the Law Society of Upper Canada are holding a
free public legal education event in the afternoon of Friday November 15, 2013 at the Toronto Hilton Hotel (registration by Nov. 13 required at 416-947-3413 or
[email protected]...
Providing a broad array of legal responses including legal advice and referral, representation in individual cases, law reform, community organizing and development, and
public legal education using a wide range of staff including intake workers, community legal workers, lawyers, policy analysts, social workers, administrative staff and volunteers.
A great deal of work is required to
improve public legal education in England and Wales, reinforcing the need to ensure that the information available at stage 0 of the OC is effective and clear.
We are grateful for the funding that will facilitate this research and excited to be formally partnered with collaborators, including notable tech guru Colin Lachance and
public legal education expert Lisa Cirillo, who will assist us in our project.
In regards to policy development, there is a need for
innovative public legal education and training initiatives for members of the public and online writers; and the development of more proportionate and relevant libel and privacy dispute resolution methods for small and individual publishers.
The Circles of Learning Indigenous Awareness Workshops are a new offering by Portage
College Public Legal Education Program and are aimed at creating safe learning environments for participants to gain understanding of the historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
In 2003, West Coast LEAF undertook this
transformative public legal education project entitled «Civil Legal Rights of Abused Women» in order to assist women's advocates to serve women who are leaving abusive situations without legal assistance or with inadequate legal assistance.