Muslim women's family law legal rights
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) will inform Canadian Muslim women of their legal rights under Canadian family law. The CCMW will conduct a national survey, outreach strategy, knowledge sharing workshops, and webinars in both English and French. CCMW, through its local chapters, will be the conduit to provide knowledge sharing workshops in their local communities to Muslim women. This grant will conclude in 2020. This grant furthers access to justice in the lives of Muslim women in Canada by having increased knowledge and understanding of their rights under the Canadian legal system.
$ 228,225
April 30, 2018
Promoting access to family law justice for immigrants
The AJEFO will develop a three-day French-language family law training course. This course will be offered to parties who work with immigrants and Francophone immigrants in Ontario. La Passerelle-I.D.É. will assist with the cultural adaptation of the training course content. The training will be delivered in Ottawa, Toronto, and Hamilton.
$ 140,030
April 30, 2018
First Nation laws to protect children and families
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) is for a project aimed at revitalizing and codifying First Nation law relating to families and children with a focus on child protection. A digital library will be created to ensure the laws and information obtained from the activities can be used for educational purposes. This grant will benefit First Nations families and children, particularly children in the child welfare system and concludes in 2020. This grant furthers access to justice by providing an independent and community controlled process to revitalize and codify First Nations laws as a way to reform the child welfare system in Manitoba.
$ 250,000
April 30, 2018
Travailler ensemble en français : colloque provincial sur le droit de la famille et la violence conjugale / Working together in French: Provincial Symposium on Family Law and Spousal Violence
Organize a two-day symposium to bring French speaking professionals together to discuss topics related to violence toward women and family law in order to increase access to justice for Francophone women who experience violence in Ontario. Attendees will come from sectors that deal with VAW, including the legal sector, children's aid, education, health policy, and immigration sectors.
$ 177,975
April 30, 2018
Program activities 2018
Pro Bono Students Canada will continue to provide practical learning experiences for law students and free legal information and services to Canadian organizations and individuals in need.
$ 360,930
March 29, 2018
Program activities 2018
OJEN will carry out programs that facilitate and support broad-based activity by the judiciary, the bar, the courts, and the education community throughout Ontario, with a primary focus on students and the strengthening of links between the justice and education communities. It will enhance existing high school mock trial competitions and deliver Law Day activities that are designed to develop awareness of the legal profession, the judicial system, and the rule of law in Canada.
$ 637,500
March 29, 2018
Connecting Communities: Environmental sensitivities and related conditions (ES+) rental housing network
The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation will hold a one-day consultation and training session with service providers, housing specialists, and tenants who have experienced environmental sensitivity issues in rental housing. Following the in-person session, a webinar and toolkit will be developed focussing on the benefits of using a human rights approach to resolve issues experienced by individuals with ES+. The project's partners include the Environmental Health Institute of Canada (EHICanada) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA). The project supports access to justice in rural and remote areas through the training of trusted intermediaries.
$ 42,850
March 29, 2018
Service scale up project
Aspire will scale up its services as a family law incubator which makes use of technology, trains young lawyers, and shares best practices with other legal professionals.
$ 250,000
March 29, 2018
Family law at the library: Mobilizing the potential of public libraries to serve self-represented litigant
The National Self-Represented Litigant Project (NSRLP) based at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law will partner with libraries in the Windsor and Essex County areas to provide support, workspace, custom-made resources, and educational programming for family self-represented litigants (SRLs). This grant will benefit both library staff and SRLs and concludes in 2020. This grant will further access to justice by better equipping public libraries to better serve SRLs with family law needs, this pilot project would be able to provide access to legal information for people, particularly litigants with limited resources, other vulnerabilities and needs.
$ 100,000
February 22, 2018
Increasing use of non-traditional legal services for Ontario family cases
This initiative will mobilize and educate lawyers across Ontario in the use of unbundled family law legal services and legal coaching, pilot a program in Barrie that provides private duty counsel services, establish a roster of trained lawyers, develop information for the public, and undertake an evaluation of all aforementioned services. The project will be overseen by a steering committee made up of representatives from the Ontario Court of Justice, the Family Lawyers Association, Legal Aid Ontario, and the Academy among many others. The purpose of the project is to increase access to these types of services to allow those who are unable to afford (or not prepared to pay for) traditional full legal representation to have improved access to family justice. The proposed research study will be the first comprehensive study of the value and limitations of limited scope services to date.
$ 250,000
February 22, 2018
