Archives: Grants (page 88)

The Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre will further develop and expand the 2007 pilot Legal Issues program for grade 11 & 12 law students which provides workshops in high schools across the Niagara Region on the legal issues related to sexual assault.

The Foundation for Legal Research will make grants for legal research and writing to approximately 25 academic researchers. Upon finishing their writing/research, the grant recipients will submit copies of their work to the FLR for its library.

The Windigo First Nations Council will develop an innovative means of enforcing community bylaws to reduce the use of intoxicants.  A regional support network will coordinate the implementation within a framework that encourages the treatment of afflictions and a restorative justice approach to underlying harms.

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network will develop and disseminate public legal education resources as well as deliver workshops and similar educational events for community members and agencies, as well as for legal professionals, addressing the key HIV-related legal issues of privacy and discrimination, and criminal law and HIV non-disclosure.

The Roma Community Centre will increase its capacity to provide culturally attuned legal information and pro bono legal aid services to assist Roma people to navigate the refugee determination process.

The Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support will revise all training materials, forms and systems used to assist unrepresented refugee claimants throughout the refugee determination process, and to reeducate staff and volunteers, in response to changes to Canada's immigration system under Bill C-31.

Spinlaw will  provide travel bursaries to enable law students from Ontario law schools to attend the annual conference organized by students from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, which aims to raise awareness and generate discussion about public interest issues.

Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario will organize and lead Law Day activities aimed at Francophone Ontario high school students in five different regions of the province.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor will hold a conference to examine the scope and impact of commercial litigation funding ("CLF") on our civil justice system. In particular, participants will discuss CLF from four perspectives: regulation, ethics, access to justice and effects on class action practice and management.

Act to End will  improve access to justice and experiences with the justice system for women who have experienced abuse. The project will focus on the family court process by: using volunteer legal support workers to provide legal information and referral; running pro bono summary advice clinics; and offering legal education workshops to the community.