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CFCJ at the 2023 OECD Global Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice
Ab Currie, Senior Research Fellow at CFCJ, represented the CFCJ at the 2023 OECD Global Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice: Making People-Centered Justice Happen in Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 6 to 8, 2023. The meeting included two technical workshops, one on “Building Evidence for People-Centered Justice” and a second on “Access to Justice for Children
Read NowAccess to Justice: Current Crop of Law Students Committed, Enthusiastic
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on April 18, 2018. It is the seventh article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. It is easy to get discouraged by the slow pace of progress on improving access to justice. But a constant source
read nowAccess to Civil Justice in Canada Has Been In a Steady State, But a Bit Low
Since 2009 the World Justice Project (WJP) has gathered data measuring the rule of law in countries around the world. One of the eight components of the WJP Rule of Law Index is Access to Civil Justice. Canada’s overall score on the access to civil justice dimension was 0.72 in the 2016 Rule of Law
read nowNew Research on the Suitability and Cost of Family Law Dispute Resolution Processes
There is perhaps no area of law where the emotional and far-reaching effects of disputes weigh as heavily on those experiencing them as family law. There is now wide-scale recognition from within the justice community of the need for reforms in family law that reflect progressive values, which offer a continuum of adversarial and non-adversarial
read nowAn Evaluation of the Cost of Family Law Disputes: Measuring the Cost Implication of Various Dispute Resolution Methods
The Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (CRILF), in partnership with the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) have published a new report on the cost implications of four dispute resolution methods used to resolve family law disputes in Canada: collaborative settlement processes, mediation, arbitration and litigation. The study uses findings from a
read nowAccess to Justice: Rise Women’s Legal Centre Connecting With Diverse Communities (Part Two)
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on March 1, 2018. It is the sixth article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice and the second part of a two-part interview with Kim Hawkins, executive director of the Rise Women’s Legal Centre in Vancouver.
read nowAccess to Justice: How the Rise Women’s Legal Centre Helps the Most Marginalized (Part One)
This article originally appeared on The Lawyer’s Daily on February 23, 2018. It is the fifth article in The Honourable Thomas Cromwell’s exclusive Lawyer’s Daily column dedicated to access to civil and family justice. One of the biggest of the access to justice challenges is the gap in availability of legal services. So many people
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