December 5, 2012

Dalhousie Legal Aid Service

Taking it to the Streets

Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (Halifax, NS) will train community workers in rural Nova Scotia to assist on poverty law issues, including income assistance and residential tenancies. Community workers will include workers in organizations such as women’s shelters, youth shelters and Aboriginal healing centres.

$ 140,000
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law

Annual Comprehensive 2013-14

The comprehensive grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and/or provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.

$ 298,800
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

The Law Society of Upper Canada

Paralegal Education and Educational Access to the 2013 Licensing Process

To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2013 paralegal licensing process.

$ 50,750
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

The Law Society of Upper Canada

Legal Education Development and Educational Access to the 2013 Lawyer Licensing Process

To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2013 lawyer licensing process.

$ 520,800
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

Planned Lifetime Networks (Waterloo-Wellington-Oxford)

Future Planning Workshop Series and Educational Project 2013

Planned Lifetime Networks will hold legal workshops that educate families on how to plan for the future of their relative with a disability using legal instruments such as wills, Henson Trusts and Registered Disability Savings Plans.

$ 8,880
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Program Activities 2013

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, and to stimulate research and publication on these subjects.

$ 191,130
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

St. Leonard's Society of Canada

Towards An Integrated Network 2nd Edition

The St. Leonard's Society of Canada will create a revised Second Edition of "Towards An Integrated Network: Working Together to Avoid Criminalization of People with Mental Health Problems" in both electronic and hardcopy form.

$ 12,920
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre (CARSA Inc)

Legal Issues Program

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.

$ 14,560
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust

Program Activities, 2011-13 (3 years) Year 3 (2013)

The Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust will conduct in-class seminars, workshops and lectures to students in elementary and high schools, and to pre-service teachers in faculties of education across Ontario via two programs: Teaching Civil Liberties and Civil Liberties in the Schools. The focus is on engaging students in critical thinking and respectful debate about rights and freedoms.

$ 221,100
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012

The Foundation for Legal Research

Grants for Legal Research and Writing

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.

$ 10,000
December 5, 2012