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Bridging the Gap Between Access to Justice and Business Law
At first glance, access to justice (A2J) might seem more relevant to areas like family, criminal, or poverty law. But through my unique position as both an Osgoode Hall Law School JD/MBA student and a research assistant for the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ), I’ve come to recognize a crucial and sometimes overlooked intersection
Read NowLives on Simmer! Early Intervention For People Living on the Margins
This is the third post in a series following the developments of the Halton Community Legal Clinic’s Legal Health Check-Up Project. Previous posts can be found here and here. The Legal Health Check-Up Project developed by the Halton Community Legal Clinic has been running for about three months through the early phase of implementation, monitoring and course
read nowBritish Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal Launches Implementation Website
This week British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) launched an implementation website that will provide BC residents with information about the progress and development of the CRT’s work. According to the website, “the CRT is going to be very different from other dispute resolution options that been available in British Columbia. The CRT will give you choices
read nowThe Cyberjustice Laboratory: where justice processes are modeled and re-imagined.
The scope of the research being conducted by the Cyberjustice Laboratory is extensive. According to the website, there are over 33 projects underway by various researchers affiliated with the Laboratory. The Laboratory’s projects range from the development of new online dispute resolution platforms (more on this project below) to the development of a framework to assess
read nowHow lawyers resolve family law disputes
This past July I was able to sample the views of 167 lawyers and judges attending the Federation of Law Societies of Canada‘s National Family Law Program in Whistler, British Columbia through a survey designed and implemented by two prominent academics and the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family. The survey asked questions about participants’ views on
read nowPolitically smart and locally-led justice programming
We are pleased to re-post this piece by Sam Muller which originally appeared on the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) Innovating Justice Forum website on October 2, 2014. A few weeks ago I attended a fascinating meeting with this provocative title at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London. It implies that most justice programming is
read nowThe Halton Legal Health Check-Up Project is About to Go into the Field
The Legal Health Check-Up project, being developed by the Halton Community Legal Clinic, is moving out of the planning phase and into the field. Now that training for the seven intermediary partners in the use of the Check-up tool has been completed and the research instruments have been developed, the project is entering a preliminary
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