Catalyst 2019
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History will study and promote public interest in the history of the law, the legal profession, and the judiciary in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. It does so by publishing books on Canadian legal history and creating and preserving an oral history archive.
$ 195,700
September 20, 2018
Family law incubator pilot project
The project would create a supported, graduated program for students wanting to pursue family law, which will take them from the classroom, to clinical education, to articles, to private practice. At the same time this project will enhance the organizations capacity to deliver better services to clients who would not otherwise be able to access justice in family law.
$ 207,194
June 20, 2018
Expanding Family Justice through Law Student Pro Bono
Pro Bono Students Canada ("PBSC") will develop a new, national family court accompaniment project to serve unrepresented litigants in the family court system, The project will have three outputs: court accompaniment services for unrepresented litigants in family courts; public legal information sessions; and a final project report with policy and practice recommendations. This grant concludes in 2021. This grant furthers access to justice by providing much needed legal assistance to unrepresented family law litigants.
$ 195,163
June 20, 2018
Access as justice tribunal project - race and Indigenous data collection pilot
The AAJ Project will pilot a survey tool that collects information from tribunal users in Ontario regarding their experience navigating the tribunal process. The survey tool will also ask users demographic questions, including questions about race, ethnicity and Indigenous identity, in an effort to better understand the barriers faced by racialized and Indigenous tribunal users.
$ 15,000
June 20, 2018
Access to justice for family violence in Nunavut: a research project & awareness campaign
The Law Society of Nunavut and Pauktuutit will conduct a research study to examine access to justice issues for Inuit survivors of family violence in Nunavut and develop a corresponding public legal education campaign to raise awareness about the legal options available for those survivors.
$ 256,475
June 20, 2018
Prisoner's and ex-prisoner's unmet civil legal needs
Community Advocacy & Legal Centre (CALC) creates a sustainable action plan to meet the unmet civil legal needs of people in conflict with the law who have been imprisoned, remanded or released from the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee. This exploratory action research project will include a civil legal needs and local capacity assessment, and CALC will collaborate with the John Howard Society, Community Legal Education Ontario and other new partners to address these needs.
$ 15,000
June 20, 2018
Parents/guardians experiences accessing rental housing accommodations for Ontarian children with sight impairments
Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research creates tool kits to assist Ontario parents/guardians of children with sight impairments and CNIB rehabilitation staff assists them, to successfully obtain individualized accessible home accommodations required to improve their mobility and safety in their rental units.
$ 15,000
June 20, 2018
Enhanced safety: By increasing efficiency of risk assessments in courts
The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic (BSCC) in collaboration with the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children (CREVWC), will conduct research on and develop a partner violence risk assessment tool to help women survivors of abuse navigate the family court system. The BSCC and CREVWC will also create a training toolkit for the different stakeholders in the family courts. This grant will benefit women survivors of abuse, family law practitioners and family court staff and concludes in 2020. This grant furthers access to justice by providing legal actors with the tools to recognize gender-based violence from the moment a survivor reaches out to the family justice system.
$ 250,000
June 20, 2018
Strengthening the Action Committee’s national coordination on A2J
The National Action Committee (NAC) is a national body created in 2008 to work across the justice sector on access to justice issues facing Canadians in civil and family matters. It will undertake various activities including a governance review, a strategic planning exercise, a progress report on its justice development goals, connect people across common issues through engagement activities, and develop indicators for its justice metrics. It will also hold a national meeting to bring to bring people together, share resources, and spur action. NAC is a national catalyst for reform, fostering engagement, pursuing a strategic collaborative approach to reforms, and coordinating the efforts of all participants concerned with civil and family justice.
$ 50,000
June 20, 2018
CLJF 2018-2019 Advancing community-based access to justice
In partnership with the Faculty of Common Law at the University of Ottawa, Julie Mathews, Executive Director of Community Legal Education Ontario, will dedicate her fellowship to focus on the challenges that are faced by community service organizations in helping people they serve who face legal problems, particularly those living on a low income or experiencing other social disadvantages, with legal problems. The Fellowship will deliver an action-oriented framework of policy and program options for supporting and enhancing the role of community service organizations as "justice partners" making an integral contribution to improving access to justice in Ontario.
$ 15,000
May 24, 2018
