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People-Centered Justice and the Civil-Criminal Divide
A considerable amount of Canadian legal scholarship exists within the boundaries of either civil or criminal law. Each camp generally invites separate consideration of gaps, standards, trends, shifts, and other issues. Rarely do these two domains of scholarship meet. A similar divide is apparent in legal practice, with the civil and criminal legal systems commonly
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Le Comité d’action sur l’accès à la justice en matière civile et familiale a commencé la campagne #justicepourtous vise à faire réaliser au public que l’accès à la justice est, en fait, l’accès aux solutions de leurs problèmes juridiques de tous les jours et un élément d’une saine démocratie. L’étape suivante dans la transformation du
read nowAccess to Justice: Justice System Could Learn From Nova Scotia Veterans Outreach Program
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on July 19, 2017. It is the third article in Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive The Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. Life isn’t organized like the Canadian Abridgement. The real problems of real people don’t sort themselves into neat categories and they are
read nowJudicial Resolutions A Call to Action, But Tough Questions Will Follow
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on June 12, 2017. It is the second article in Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive The Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. Sometimes symbolic gestures are meaningful. And sometimes they are even important. The recent resolutions by the leaders of the Canadian judiciary concerning
read nowThinking Big about Access to Justice
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on March 3, 2017: https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/2599. It is the first article in Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive The Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. Access to justice is the biggest challenge facing our legal system. And just about every lawyer I know cares deeply about
read nowThe Charter and Legal Aid Ontario’s Proposed Refugee Law Cuts
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has announced plans for substantial cuts to its immigration and refugee law services. Other legal aid programs across Canada are no doubt watching this closely, and may be considering similar measures. The proposed cuts, however, may be unconstitutional. Proposed 40% cuts to Refugee Law Services Currently, refugee claimants in Ontario who
read nowThe Cost of Justice (Research)
A number of reports published in recent years have highlighted the lack of research on access to justice in Canada and have called for more. In a Canadian Forum on Civil Justice column published on slaw.ca, Andrew Pilliar discusses the state of access to justice research in Canada and offers insight into how much access
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