Access to Justice for Roma Refugee Claimants Pilot Program
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.
$ 14,970
December 5, 2012
Refugee Claim Process Organization Update
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.
$ 15,000
December 5, 2012
SPINLAW 2013
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.
$ 5,000
December 5, 2012
Journée du droit 2013
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.
$ 15,000
December 5, 2012
Commercial Litigation Funding Conference: Ethical, Regulatory and Comparative Perspectives
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.
$ 15,000
December 5, 2012
Legal Information Service for Jewish Women Who Have Experienced Abuse
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.
$ 10,000
December 5, 2012
Safety and Legal Information for Victims of Abuse
The Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s, NFLD) will produce and distribute safety and legal information for victims of abuse
$ 25,000
December 5, 2012
Child Protection Parent Education Project
The Child Protection Parent Education Committee (Halifax, NS) will produce and distribute a plain language, accessible DVDs to parents involved in the Child Protection system in rural Nova Scotia.
$ 50,285
December 5, 2012
Mi'kmaq Legal Service Project
The Indigenous Blacks & Mi’kmaq Initiative, Dalhousie University, Schulich School of Law, (Dalhousie, NS) will continue their core work of reducing structural and systemic discrimination by increasing the representation of Indigenous Black and Mi’kmaq lawyers. It will also provide legal information sessions on domestic violence, human rights, wills and estates and the use of Gladue reports to Mi’kmaq communities.
$ 160,000
December 5, 2012
Victims of Family Violence Information Sessions
The Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s, NFLD) will deliver legal information sessions to service providers in rural Newfoundland that work with victims of domestic violence. The service providers will include social workers, nurses, transition house staff, police, violence prevention staff and government workers.
$ 25,000
December 5, 2012
