Alberta
Tue, Oct 27 | 11am - 12pm PT
A Conversation about Access to Justice and Systemic Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments, non-profit organizations and other justice sector stakeholders in Canada to innovate. As their focus shifts from short term survival to rebuilding for a post-COVID world, how can they best contribute to creating a more just society?
Trevor Farrow has carried out ground-breaking research on the costs that society incurs when Canadians cannot access justice. Joshua Sealy-Harrington’s research and practice explores how the justice system systemically marginalizes racialized Canadians. Hear them together in conversation with the University of Alberta Faculty of Law's new dean, Barbara Billingsley, as they discuss what access to justice means, how best to promote it in a post-COVID world, and what role law schools can play in creating a more just society.
Register to receive your link to this event, hosted on Zoom, which will be emailed to you in advance of October 27.
A Conversation about Access to Justice and Systemic Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments, non-profit organizations and other justice sector stakeholders in Canada to innovate. As their focus shifts from short term survival to rebuilding for a post-COVID world, how can they best contribute to creating a more just society?
Trevor Farrow has carried out ground-breaking research on the costs that society incurs when Canadians cannot access justice. Joshua Sealy-Harrington’s research and practice explores how the justice system systemically marginalizes racialized Canadians. Hear them together in conversation with the University of Alberta Faculty of Law's new dean, Barbara Billingsley, as they discuss what access to justice means, how best to promote it in a post-COVID world, and what role law schools can play in creating a more just society.
Register to receive your link to this event, hosted on Zoom, which will be emailed to you in advance of October 27.
Saskatchewan
CREATE Justice
Saskatchewan has a full week of events planned for A2J week, scheduled for October 26 - 30, 2020.
To find out more about activities in the province visit the event website. Learn more.
Saskatchewan has a full week of events planned for A2J week, scheduled for October 26 - 30, 2020.
To find out more about activities in the province visit the event website. Learn more.
Mon, Oct 26 | 11am - 12pm PT
Unbundled Legal Services in Canada: Lawyer and Client Feedback
Cost is a significant factor for people trying to access legal services. Unbundling legal services can be a cost effective and efficient alternative for people looking for legal help. The goal of this webinar is to encourage lawyers to offer unbundled services, and for the public to learn more about how these services work.
Tune in to hear presenters from British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario speak about client and lawyer feedback, and to ask your questions about unbundled services.
Speakers:
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Unbundled Legal Services in Canada: Lawyer and Client Feedback
Cost is a significant factor for people trying to access legal services. Unbundling legal services can be a cost effective and efficient alternative for people looking for legal help. The goal of this webinar is to encourage lawyers to offer unbundled services, and for the public to learn more about how these services work.
Tune in to hear presenters from British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario speak about client and lawyer feedback, and to ask your questions about unbundled services.
Speakers:
- John-Paul Boyd, an accredited family law arbitrator based in Alberta
- Sonali Sharma, founder of Athena Law in British Columbia
- Lisa Eisen, founder of Family Law: A La Carte in Ontario
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Ontario
Wed, Oct 28 | 9:30 - 10:30am PT
Exploring Community Justice Help to Advance Community-based Access to Justice
This session will provide an overview of and seek feedback on a recent report, “Community Justice Help: Advancing Community-Based Access to Justice”, released by Community Legal Education Ontario.
Authoured by Julie Mathews (CLEO) and David Wiseman (uOttawa), the report proposes a new approach for enabling community workers (as non-lawyers) to provide assistance for law-related problems. The report puts forward a three-part framework for supporting, rather than discouraging, “community justice help”, and in so doing enabling community workers to play a role in advancing access to justice.
Welcoming participants from all provinces, this session will look beyond Ontario to explore the extent to which community justice help is available in other Canadian jurisdictions and the extent to which it is enabled and supported by local regulators both at present and through emerging initiatives.
A report presentation will be followed by participant discussion.
TAG (The Action Group on A2J)
Ontario’s Access to Justice Week marks its fifth year in 2020. This A2J Week’s awareness-building programs will focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on legal professions and justice sector’s COVID response, public legal education, mental health, as well as Indigenous, language and human rights.
Learn more
Legal Innovation Zone, Ryerson University
Justice has been in crisis for decades. It's time to let others help. The LIZ is hosting Justice For All. with speakers:
Register
Exploring Community Justice Help to Advance Community-based Access to Justice
This session will provide an overview of and seek feedback on a recent report, “Community Justice Help: Advancing Community-Based Access to Justice”, released by Community Legal Education Ontario.
Authoured by Julie Mathews (CLEO) and David Wiseman (uOttawa), the report proposes a new approach for enabling community workers (as non-lawyers) to provide assistance for law-related problems. The report puts forward a three-part framework for supporting, rather than discouraging, “community justice help”, and in so doing enabling community workers to play a role in advancing access to justice.
Welcoming participants from all provinces, this session will look beyond Ontario to explore the extent to which community justice help is available in other Canadian jurisdictions and the extent to which it is enabled and supported by local regulators both at present and through emerging initiatives.
A report presentation will be followed by participant discussion.
- Date: Wednesday, October, 28
- Timing: 9:30am - 10:30am PT
TAG (The Action Group on A2J)
Ontario’s Access to Justice Week marks its fifth year in 2020. This A2J Week’s awareness-building programs will focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on legal professions and justice sector’s COVID response, public legal education, mental health, as well as Indigenous, language and human rights.
Learn more
Legal Innovation Zone, Ryerson University
Justice has been in crisis for decades. It's time to let others help. The LIZ is hosting Justice For All. with speakers:
- Andrew Arruda, ROSS Intelligence
- Mark Benton, Legal Services Society
- Gillian Hadfield, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
- Justice Deno Himonas, Utah Supreme Court
- Dr. Julie Macfarlane C.M., University of Windsor
- Crispin Passmore, Passmore Consulting
- Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Arizona Supreme
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Quebec
Towards a Grand Assembly of Justice
With the collaboration of the Institut du Nouveau Monde and in partnership with Éducaloi, the Institut québécois de réforme du droit et de la justice (Quebec Law and Justice Reform Institute) is organizing a Grand Assembly of Justice which will take place during the winter of 2021. An online Citizen Forum will consult the general public on ways to adapt law and justice to the needs of Quebec’s society.On October 30, 2020, around sixty people will virtually come together to establish the themes that could be addressed during the Grand Assembly of Justice in the winter of 2021. The Citizen Forum will take place online and will be the subject of a summary report which will be made public.
Learn more
With the collaboration of the Institut du Nouveau Monde and in partnership with Éducaloi, the Institut québécois de réforme du droit et de la justice (Quebec Law and Justice Reform Institute) is organizing a Grand Assembly of Justice which will take place during the winter of 2021. An online Citizen Forum will consult the general public on ways to adapt law and justice to the needs of Quebec’s society.On October 30, 2020, around sixty people will virtually come together to establish the themes that could be addressed during the Grand Assembly of Justice in the winter of 2021. The Citizen Forum will take place online and will be the subject of a summary report which will be made public.
Learn more