Introduction

University of Victoria, Faculty of Law

September 19, 2017

University of Victoria, Faculty of Law

The Access to Justice Centre for Excellence (ACE) will develop and apply a tool for generating useable data about the real costs of family disputes beyond court and legal fees. The tool will combine typical costs incurred by a family law litigant with census data and user interviews to develop 8-10 personas of family court users. The project will advance policy development, reform efforts, and public understanding of access to justice in the family context by providing a missing piece of the data to understand and respond to the crisis in accessibility in family law.