MARCH 2016
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INTERVIEW WITH MARIAN MACGREGOR - ACCESS TO JUSTICE ADVOCATES SERIES
We are thrilled to resume our Access to Justice Advocates series!
Recently, the CFCJ sat down with the Community & Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) Clinic Director, Marian MacGregor, to discuss her work in access to justice, CLASP and the community legal clinics system. Marian MacGregor is very passionate about her work and we’re thrilled that she was able to meet with us for our Access to Justice Advocates Series.
To read more about our conversation with Marian MacGregor, or to watch the interview, click here.
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Are there identifiable patterns in the ways that Canadians of different ethnicities respond to consumer problems? This is the primary question guiding Paths to Justice and the Resolution of Consumer Problems, a Cost of Justice Project report by Dr. Les Jacobs, David Kryszajtys & Matthew McManus.
The paper explores consumer problems and commonalities in paths to resolution based on ethnicity, income and education, using data gathered from the CFCJ’s 2014 Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada survey. Read Paths to Justice and the Resolution of Consumer Problems in full here.
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THE LEGAL HEALTH CHECK-UP PROJECT IS EXPANDING
The Legal Health Check-Up Project (LHC) model that was first discussed in our November 2014 newsletter and highlighted in a CFCJ blog here has, and continues to be adopted by community legal clinics across Ontario. In his latest blog, CFCJ Senior Research Fellow and Research Consultant for the Legal Health Check-Up Project, Dr. Ab Currie, explains that the expansion of the Legal Health Check-Up model to twelve clinics will create an exciting learning environment as each clinic innovatively adapts the LHC model to best benefit its users. To learn more about the growth of the Legal Health Check-Up Project, read Dr. Currie’s blog in full here.
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INNOVATION IN JUSTICE
In a recent piece by Dr. Sam Muller of HiiL Innovating Justice, he discusses some of the points he raised during his recent conversation with Prime Minister Trudeau in Davos including, the meaning of a “functional justice system”, the contributions that Canada can make to building innovation capacity into justice systems and key elements to this new approach to rule of law development.
Dr. Muller's column also references the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice as "one of the impressive organizations...that [he's] had the pleasure of working with in justice innovation".
"A Talk With the Prime Minister" by Sam Muller is posted on slaw.ca and can be viewed in full here.
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE RESEARCH NETWORK/RÉSEAU DE RECHERCHE SUR L’ACCÈS À LA JUSTICE UPDATE
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NEWSLETTER PUBLICATION
We are becoming a bi-monthly publication!
In order to bring you the best in access to justice news, research updates and CFCJ project information, we will begin publishing our newsletter every other month.
For important research announcements and report releases, we will be producing special editions of our newsletter.
Thank you for your continued support and for reading the CFCJ newsletter.
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