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Where Are We Now? Accessing The Current Ontario Family Justice System, Kaitlin A. Jagersky Sep 2021

Where Are We Now? Accessing The Current Ontario Family Justice System, Kaitlin A. Jagersky

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Is the current family justice system more accessible than ever before? This paper considers the significant changes that have been made to the Ontario family justice system in recent years, including those made as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, to determine if the “fundamental overhaul” and “bold innovation” called upon by the national Action Committee has occurred, bringing Ontario closer to a more accessible family justice system.

Several prominent legal scholars have identified access to family justice in Canada as a crisis and have made strongly worded recommendations on how the family justice system could be more accessible. As …