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Grounding Access To Justice Theory And Practice In The Experiences Of Women Abused By Their Intimate Partners, Janet Mosher

Janet Mosher

For women seeking to extricate themselves from the web of entrapment woven together by the multiple threads that make up the coercive control repertoire of their abusive intimate partners, it is often difficult to avoid engagement with legal systems. Yet, the legal systems they encounter—criminal, family, child welfare, immigration among them—are frequently unwelcoming (if not hostile), controlling, demeaning, fragmented and contradictory. While there has been a recent explosion of interest in “access to justice,” little attention has been paid to how we might conceptualize access to justice in a manner that speaks meaningfully to the circumstances of women who experience …

Welfare Fraud: The Constitution Of Social Assistance As Crime, Janet E. Mosher

Janet Mosher

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Walking On Eggshells: Abused Women's Experiences Of Ontario's Welfare System, Janet E. Mosher

Janet Mosher

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Une Marche En Terrain Glissant, Janet E. Mosher

Janet Mosher

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Panel 5: Access To Justice, Janet E. Mosher, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Michael J. Trebilcock, Lorne Sossin

Janet Mosher

PANEL V: ACCESS TO JUSTICE: Moderator: Lorne Sossin, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School; Speaker: Janet Mosher, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Access to Justice Amid Threats of Contagion"; Speaker: Trevor Farrow, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, "What is Access to Justice?"; Discussant: Michael Trebilcock, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Lessons In Access To Justice: Racialized Youths In Ontario's Safe Schools, Janet E. Mosher

Janet Mosher

Access to justice is often equated with access to institutionalized dispute resolution processes, and the objective barriers that hinder such access-costs and delay most particularly-are commonly identified as the primary objects of reform efforts. In sharp contrast, when interviews and focus groups were conducted with racialized youths in Toronto regarding their experiences of access to justice in the context of school disciplinary matters, accounts of access to dispute resolution processes being impeded by costs and delay did not figure prominently. The interviews and focus groups revealed that many racialized youths scarcely ever considered accessing institutionalized dispute resolution processes largely because …

Accessing Justice Amid Threats Of Contagion, Janet E. Mosher

Janet Mosher

Plans to prepare for a global pandemic have proliferated in recent years, and “legal preparedness” has emerged as a critical component of such plans. Commonly, the threat of disease is analogized to terrorism and recast as an issue of national security. In this framing, laws authorizing surveillance, containment, and forced treatment are understood as necessary. Law’s promise of protection against abuses in the exercise of such powers through procedural rights of review offers meagre comfort for critics concerned that individual liberties will readily yield to national security and public health in the context of an actual pandemic. An alternative framing …

No Cherries Grow On Our Trees: A Brief By The Take Action Project, Janet Mosher

Janet Mosher