Revitalization of Anishinabek Nation Legal Traditions Initiative
UOI will bring together Anishinabek Nation communities to share knowledge, identify traditional Anishinabek legal practices and systems, and explore how these practices and systems can be implemented in modern Indigenous communities. The project will revitalize Indigenous legal traditions and will inform future Anishinabek Nation justice initiatives in governance, education, child welfare, policing, and matrimonial real property.
$ 150,000
September 19, 2017
Self-represented litigants (SRLs) case law database
The NSRLP will create a caselaw database to support self-represented litigants (SRLs). The database will compile, code, and analyze emerging jurisprudence relating to SRLs and cost awards, procedural fairness, 'vexatious litigants', and requests for accommodations. This project will help SRLs advocate for themselves in family law proceedings by providing them with accessible, organized legal precedents that can assist them.
$ 14,688
September 19, 2017
Out-of-pocket: calculating the real costs of family court
The Access to Justice Centre for Excellence (ACE) will develop and apply a tool for generating useable data about the real costs of family disputes beyond court and legal fees. The tool will combine typical costs incurred by a family law litigant with census data and user interviews to develop 8-10 personas of family court users. The project will advance policy development, reform efforts, and public understanding of access to justice in the family context by providing a missing piece of the data to understand and respond to the crisis in accessibility in family law.
$ 15,000
September 19, 2017
First Nation law relating to intoxicants, By-Law #2010-01
Bearskin Lake will continue to implement and improve the cost-effectiveness of its ‘First Nation By-Law Relating to Intoxicants #2010-01’ project.
$ 70,900
June 13, 2017
Program activities (July to December 2017)
Innocence Canada will continue to coordinate and administer its pro bono program, which reviews and assesses claims of innocence.
$ 115,000
June 13, 2017
Saving lives through law: popularizing legislation removing a barrier to emergency response services in the event of overdoes
CHALN will produce and disseminate a public legal education resource that will reduce a key barrier to emergency health services by popularizing knowledge of the new Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. The law protects individuals from being charged with an offense if they contact emergency assistance when someone overdoses.
$ 15,000
June 13, 2017
Exposing Canada's chemical valley (2017)
Ecojustice will update and revise its 2007 report entitled, "Exposing Canada's Chemical Valley". The report is an investigation of the effects of cumulative air pollution in Sarnia and is an important go-to document for environmental non-governmental organizations, academics and government.
$ 10,000
June 13, 2017
Improving access to justice for refugees and vulnerable migrants
This project seeks to improve access to legal information for frontline workers supporting refugees and other vulnerable migrants by developing written legal information resources, developing a searchable/user-friendly online platform, and providing online and in person legal information workshops.
$ 15,000
June 13, 2017
Access to justice: Small Claims Court
An empirical research project to better understand how the Ontario Small Claims court may assist or impede access to justice.
$ 15,000
June 13, 2017
Get it right, know your rights!
The Afghan Women's Organization will deliver legal information workshops to newcomers in Mississauga on laws that affect their everyday lives and on where and how to seek legal assistance.
$ 12,782
June 13, 2017
