Search Warrants - Dos, Don'ts and everything in between. A hands-on workshop for recent calls
The Criminal Lawyers' Association will develop and host a hands-on workshop on search warrants for junior criminal defence lawyers. Recent calls who reside/practice more than 150 kms from Toronto will be provided with travel bursaries to facilitate attendance.
$ 14,000
July 6, 2012
Wrongful Dismissal and Employment Law e-Text
The Canadian Legal Information Institute will provide free and unrestricted access to a professionally developed employment law e-text via CANLII's website, and to fully incorporate and cross-reference all case law elements from the text with CANLII's presentation of primary legal information.
$ 15,000
July 6, 2012
A Student's Environmental Law Handbook
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper will create and publish an on-line guide to environmental law for students. The handbook will describe legal tools and principles in a contemporary context and offer practical tips to help young lawyers protect Ontario's environment.
$ 11,990
July 6, 2012
Residential Tenancy Education and Information - BC
Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre (Vancouver, BC) will provide “train the trainer” workshops for community organization staff on residential tenancies issues and will conduct a media campaign on residential tenancies issues.
$ 100,000
June 28, 2012
Aligning Community and Academic Agendas: Housing and Homelessness - 2012-13 CLJ
Tracy Heffernan, a program director at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, will spend her year-long fellowship at Osgoode Hall Law School where she will explore the potential to reduce homelessness using the Charter and other legal tools.
$ 50,000
June 28, 2012
Indeterminate Punishment: The Disclosure of Non-Conviction Information on Criminal Record Checks in Ontario - November 2012
The John Howard Society of Ontario will deliver a symposium to examine the issues around the disclosure of non-conviction information on criminal record checks.
$ 6,900
June 28, 2012
The Holocaust and Holocaust Denials
Assumption University will produce a seminar aimed at high school, college and university students as well as evening public presentations on the subject of the Holocaust and Holocaust deniers.
$ 15,000
June 28, 2012
Knowing Nuclear Waste - Understanding the Legal Framework for Waste Siting Decisions
Northwatch will provide communities that are being studied as possible locations for a geological repository for nuclear waste with an understanding of the legal framework within which siting decisions must be made, including issues of municipal jurisdiction, the regulation of nuclear facilities, and regulatory assessment of the safety case for geological repositories.
$ 15,000
June 28, 2012
Street Smarts Program
The Toronto Cyclists Union will operate the Street Smarts Program to facilitate legal education and expand public knowledge of the rules of road safety for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists. The program will involve on-street outreach and workshops to deliver the information.
$ 11,920
June 28, 2012
A Co-ordinated Strategy for PLEI for Non Profits
The People’s Law School (Vancouver, BC), along with other BC Public Legal Education (PLE) organizations, will provide PLE on non-profit legal issues to the non-profit sector. In particular, it will focus on providing legal information regarding the 2012 changes to the BC Society Act, which is the legal framework governing non-profits in BC.
$ 135,500
June 28, 2012
