OCTOBER 2015

The Legal Health Check-Up (LHC) project is an initiative by Halton Community Legal Services (HCLS) that supports partnerships between Halton’s legal clinic and community-based intermediaries as a means to identify and respond to everyday legal problems. The Legal Health Check-Up project, which was first profiled by CFCJ Senior Researcher (and Halton Communtiy Legal Services Research Consultant), Dr. Ab Currie in a blog post here, has recently seen several internal and collateral developments. Read the latest about The Legal Health Check-Up project in this blog by Dr. Currie here.

Trevor Farrow gave an access to justice presentation at OECD in Paris on 7 October 2015.  Building on work of CFCJ Senior Research Fellow Ab Currie, other work of the CFCJ including its recent national costs survey, and the work of the National Action Committee, Farrow urged the OECD - through its Expert Roundtable on Access to Justice - to take a leadership role in developing a progressive and expansive notion of access to justice as an important part of its cooperative development agenda.
 

CFCJ Communications and Research Assistant, Quin Gilbert-Walters has written about his experience at the Innovation and Access to Justice Conference in Montreal on October 1 and 2. Read Quin’s blog on "Integrating Innovation from Other Jurisdictions," posted on the CFCJ website here.

The Innovation and Access to Justice Conference in Montreal this month featured workshops, plenaries and presentations by A2J stakeholders from across Canada, as well as a small contingent from the U.S. There were a multitude of research projects, ideas and initiatives that were discussed and the feedback was very positive.

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice was thrilled to be one of the organizing members of this inaugural event and we would like to thank our co-organizers— Cyberjustice Laboratory, Chaire LexUM, Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, CIAJ, PLEAC and the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution— for their incredible contribution towards making the Innovation and Access to Justice Conference a success. It was a pleasure planning this event with you!

To view tweets about the Innovation and Access to Justice Conference search #IAJ2015 on Twitter.