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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
Read NowCFCJ Launches Three-year International Research Project to Scale Community-Based Justice
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice is thrilled to announce the launch of a three-year, international research project to assess the costs, benefits and opportunities for increasing access to community-based justice services in Canada, Kenya, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Community-Based Justice Research (CBJR) project is
read nowA New Call To Action To Improve Access To Justice
At a UN summit in 2015, world leaders identified 17 universal threats to the well-being, safety and advancement of people worldwide and to environmental sustainability. The result was the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Officially in effect since January 2016, the SDGs aim to galvanize national and international efforts around an agenda that promotes equity,
read nowAccess To Justice: How It’s Looking On The Ground
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on August 13, 2018. It is the eleventh article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. West Coast LEAF is a legal advocacy group whose mandate is to use the law to create an equal and just
read nowAccess To Justice: Diana Lowe On Support For Families As They Restructure
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on July 30, 2018. It is the tenth article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. Alberta has been engaged for several years in an ambitious family law reform effort. I spoke to Diana Lowe, co-lead of
read nowAccess to Justice: Action Committee Looks at Problems, Innovative Solutions
La version française suit. This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on June 20, 2018. It is the eighth article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. Access to justice leaders from coast to coast to coast met for two and one-half days in
read nowLegal Secondary Consultation (LSC) Pilot Project Final Report
Legal secondary consultation (LSC) is an innovative and promising legal aid delivery model in which a legal service professional provides one-on-one advice to a service provider in a social services agency or a community organization. This assists the provider to resolve problems for clients seeking help. The final report by CFCJ senior research fellow, Dr.
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