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Let’S Pick Up Where We Left Off 25 Years Ago To Expand Access To Civil Justice In Canada, Ab Currie
Let’S Pick Up Where We Left Off 25 Years Ago To Expand Access To Civil Justice In Canada, Ab Currie
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The 2020 World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index ranks Canada 9th overall out of 128 countries on a composite rule of law index made up of 8 factors. In this latest version of the WJP Rule of Law Index Canada ranks 9th on constraints on government powers, 9th on absence of corruption, 9th on open government, 9th on respect for fundamental rights, 9th on order and security, 11th on regulatory enforcement, 10th on criminal justice and, much lower than the other rule of law indicators, 19th globally on civil justice. Canada’s overall score is 0.81 out of 1.00. …
The Community Being Helped Is The Resource That Is Needed, Ab Currie
The Community Being Helped Is The Resource That Is Needed, Ab Currie
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
There is a widespread recognition of the importance of not-for-profit organizations for meeting the access to justice needs of disadvantaged people. Centered within that growing body of literature, this paper points to the importance of community service agencies and voluntary organizations as resources that enable community legal clinics to identify and meet the legal needs and to provide social justice outcomes that would otherwise be beyond their capacity if limited to resources from conventional sources. The resources available from the community are not monetary. They include entrée into hard-to-reach and -serve populations, special knowledge of about the problems experienced by …
The Unintended Benefits Of Innovation, Ab Currie, Brandon D. Stewart
The Unintended Benefits Of Innovation, Ab Currie, Brandon D. Stewart
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The Legal Health Check-Up (LHC) attracted considerable attention among community legal clinics in Ontario beginning in 2013. The LHC began as a way for clinics to identify people experiencing legal and justice problems by partnering with various community groups to which people go for help with everyday problems. Using a questionnaire designed to draw out the legal aspects of everyday problems, community groups are able to exercise the gateway roles of problem spotting and referral by encouraging the people they assist to complete the check-up and contact the clinic for help with the legal aspects of their problems. The partnerships …
Measuring Impacts Of Legal Services – A Literature Review On Research Design And Methodology, Lisa Moore
Measuring Impacts Of Legal Services – A Literature Review On Research Design And Methodology, Lisa Moore
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The purpose of this literature review is twofold. First, by exploring Canadian and international literature focussing on the measurement of justice, it is designed to support and promote much needed innovative, empirical, access to justice research. Specifically, it explores the use of longitudinal research methodologies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to gather data on outcomes and impacts in legal research and, to some extent, in disciplines outside of law. It is hoped that the bibliography, attached as Appendix I, will be useful for future research on these and related topics. Second, this literature review is drafted with a view towards …
Measuring Impacts Of Legal Services – Bibliography, Network And Methodology, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Lisa Moore, Ab Currie
Measuring Impacts Of Legal Services – Bibliography, Network And Methodology, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Lisa Moore, Ab Currie
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) was granted a Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) Measuring Impacts and Progress: Small Grant ($25,000, 2019-2020). With the grant, the CFCJ – and its lead research team – created the “Measuring the Impact of Legal Service Interventions Project” (“MILSP”).