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1 Aug 2015, 5:11 pm
The non-profit Canadian Forum on Access to Justice (CFCJ) has been publishing a monthly newsletter about Access to Justice since early 2013. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 3:02 pm
The non-profit Canadian Forum on Access to Justice (CFCJ) has been publishing a monthly newsletter about Access to Justice since early 2013. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 1:55 pm
This is, of course, a distinct research question from one that asks whether the standards are viewed as legitimate by victims of human rights abuses, or, civil society groups. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
” In response to this need to coordinate and centralize access to justice related research, news, data and discourse, last month the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) launched the Access to Justice Research Network (AJRN). [read post]
30 May 2015, 11:32 am
The non-profit Canadian Forum on Access to Justice (CFCJ) has been publishing a monthly newsletter about Access to Justice since early 2013. [read post]
23 May 2015, 10:36 am
"I was just stating a fact – the guy is short, given the median height of Canadians, which is 5' 9.8" according to a UNESCO survey I'm linking to. [read post]
22 May 2015, 6:43 am
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has been researching the costs to the state of civil litigation since 2012, and has summarized some of the initial results of their work in a recent post on Slaw: “Beyond the impact on the individual, everyday legal problems can potentially lead to considerable ‘knock-on’ costs to the state. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 5:23 pm
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) has launched an Access to Justice Research Network (AJRN).The network will help researchers "... easily exchange resources, including scholarly articles, key research findings, case commentaries, best practices, policy reports, etc., while also creating an active online space for discussion and debate on A2J [access to justice] issues" (...) [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 4:00 am
Last month, as part of a five-year SSHRC funded research project exploring the costs of justice, the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice released the first data from its national legal problems survey, “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada”. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 11:02 am
Terlecki, Ontario Superior Court of Justice Susan Healy also permitted substituted service via Facebook of a statement of claim.As noted in the 2013 ruling of the B.C. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 7:25 am
In addition, as was made evident by recent research from the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, there are significant “knock on” costs to various systems when legal problems remain unresolved, including costs to health care, Employment Insurance and other social benefit programs. [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 5:55 pm
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has published a factsheet on Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada whose content comes from a 2014 survey of 3,000 Canadians aged 18 and over:"It is the first Canadian study of its kind to explore what everyday legal problems cost Canadians – not just in dollars, but in time and opportunity costs, costs to their physical and mental health, and costs to their… [read post]
15 Mar 2015, 9:27 am
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) has attempted to explore some of these costs outside of legal expenses in their Cost of Justice initiative, which has interviewed over 3000 people. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 5:33 am
The opinions of JUSTICE SCALIA and JUSTICE THOMAS offer substantial reasons why the Seminole Rock [deference] doctrine may be incorrect. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 3:57 pm
The latest issue of the newsletter includes:a post on the need for high-quality research for the implementation of effective civil justice services and programsa profile of a Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Research Assistantannouncements [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 5:39 am
Signatories: 1) Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture 2) Arab Forum for Alternatives 3) Alkarama Foundation 4) Amnesty International 5) Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) 6) Arab Foundation for Development and Citizenship (London) 7) ARJ EU Working group on arts-rights-justice, Chair 8) Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) 9) Cairo Center for Development CCD 10) … [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
This project, that I’m also privileged to participate in, involves an Independent Commission of Experts comprised of Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie, Alex Whiting at Harvard, Anita Ramasastry at the University of Washington and others. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 4:00 am
(b) An external focus through which the Law Society will provide facilitation of a standing forum for collaboration on access to justice by: (i) Reconstituting the Treasurer’s Advisory Group on Access to Justice as a standing forum called the Treasurer’s Action Group on Access to Justice; and (i) Providing administrative and other resources necessary to convene and support the ongoing functioning of the standing forum. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 8:03 am
The non-profit Canadian Forum on Access to Justice (CFCJ) has been publishing a monthly newsletter about Access to Justice since early 2013. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 4:00 am
” (4) “In 2009, the Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project found that one-third of low- and middle-income Ontarians did not seek legal assistance for what they regarded as legal problems”; and, (5) “A recent study of 259 self-represented litigants in family and civil law matters in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta reported that the most consistently cited reason for self-representation was the inability to afford to retain, or continue to retain, a lawyer. [read post]
