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The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
ISSN 2561-5017 · University of Windsor · 293 artikel di indeks
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“Weaponizing” The Tort of Family Violence? Myths, Stereotypes, Lawyers’ Ethics and Access to Justice
Intimate partner violence [IPV] causes myriad and gendered harms, but Canadian law has inconsistently provided avenues of economic redress. Although tort law has evolved to allow IPV survivors to seek compensation, tort-based remedies are sought rarely and largely limited to intentional torts such…
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Reflections on the TRC’s Mandate to Law Schools: Microscopic and Macroscopic Changes
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s [TRC] mandate to law schools is multi-faceted in its pedagogical substance and process. The mandate entails rejecting terra nullius and its associated colonial assumptions within Canadian law as taught and a new valorization of Indigenous legal orders. This…
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Homegrown Transplants: Procedural Borrowing in the New Ontario Class Proceedings Act
The most controversial of the recent amendments to Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act is the addition of two requirements to the certification test: to meet the preferable procedure criterion, s. 5(1.1) requires that common issues in the litigation must now “predominate” over individual issues, and a…
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Swimming Up Niagara Falls! The Battle to Get Disability Rights Added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
This is the personal memoir of blind lawyer and volunteer disability rights advocate David Lepofsky. It describes his involvement in and perspectives on the successful fight from 1980 to 1982 to get Canada’s proposed Charter of Rights amended to guarantee equal rights for people with disabilities…
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The Democratizing Influence of Intervention
Participation-based arguments in support of courts adopting a large and liberal attitude on intervention were persuasive at the outset of the Charter era. Due to the newness of the document at the time, a compelling case could be made that public participation in Charter challenges was a vital…
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The Importance of Effective Access to Justice for Charter Violations and the Role of the Court Challenges Program
This paper argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms can only deliver on its promises when those who benefit from its guarantees are able to challenge government action in courts. This is true both in considering the Charter as a constitutional document and as a human rights…
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Freedom of Religion in Canada – The Principled and the Pragmatic
While much of Canada’s early commitment to religious freedom was simply a pragmatic compromise to ensure social peace and political stability, the Supreme Court of Canada in a series of judgments that pre-dated the Charter sought to articulate a principled account of religious freedom as an…
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L’évolution de la partie VII de la loi sur les langues officielles : un objectif ambitieux à la recherche de moyens efficaces
Depuis son adoption en 1988, la Partie VII de la Loi sur les langues officielles suscite autant d’espoirs que de déceptions. Formulée de façon trop générale, la première version sera déclarée non justiciable par les tribunaux. La deuxième, pourtant formulée de façon plus précise, sera elle aussi…
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Section 15: How Indigenous Use of the Charter Tool is About Returning to Respect Not Creating Equity
Some Canadians view the concept of freedom in relation to government involvement differently, particularly when government presence is seen as oppressive or colonizing. While Indigenous communities in Canada may not always view the current governance structure as reflective of their own traditions…
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Le droit constitutionnel aux communications et aux services publics fédéraux dans la langue officielle de son choix
Selon les enseignements de la Cour suprême du Canada, le droit d’employer le français ou l’anglais prévu au paragraphe 20(1) de la Charte pour communiquer avec les institutions fédérales et pour en recevoir les services doit s’interpréter de façon large et libérale en fonction de son objet culturel…
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La clinique juridique comme espace de participation et de médiation
Afin de contribuer au débat sur l’accès à la justice des personnes non expertes du droit, je défends dans le présent article qu’en encourageant la participation par le bas, les cliniques juridiques jouent un rôle de médiateur social et juridique. Dans la première partie, j’explique le concept de…
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Vers un tournant participatif dans les recherches sur l’accès à la justice
Introduction
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La participation citoyenne des enfants qui défendent leurs droits devant les tribunaux : regard sur le contentieux des changements climatiques
Les enfants s’impliquent de plus en plus dans des activités de participation citoyenne sur diverses questions qui les concernent, comme celles ayant trait à la protection de l’environnement, et pourtant, leur citoyenneté demeure souvent non reconnue. Cet article s’intéresse aux enfants qui exercent…
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Un rond dans un carré: l’expérience professionnelle des spécialistes de la justice réparatrice dans le cadre d’un programme québécois de déjudiciarisation pour adultes
En 2017, le premier programme de déjudiciarisation en matière de criminalité adulte pour personnes non autochtones a été instauré au Québec. Le programme de mesures de rechange général implique la participation des professionnels de la justice réparatrice pour orchestrer ces mesures. Cet article…
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Les modes de prévention et de règlement des différends [PRD] : une forme de participation citoyenne?
Les modes de prévention et de règlement des différends [PRD] s’inscrivent dans une évolution de nos systèmes de justice vers une plus grande implication des individus. Le Code de procédure civile du Québec, en vigueur depuis le 1er janvier 2016, encourage la participation des personnes à la…
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JUDGING ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES: OVERSIGHT, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CITIZEN COMPLAINTS
The Conseil de la justice administrative [CJA] is a distinct oversight body responsible for investigating complaints of deontological breaches committed by members of administrative tribunals in Quebec that wield quasi-judicial powers. In our examination of the CJA’s decisions, we consider it to be…
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Probing The Data: Perspectives on Race Visibility in Canadian Sentencing Proceedings
This article analyzes interview data from nine Black criminalized individuals and nine defence lawyers (five white, three Black, and one Arab) about the utility of heightened race visibility in sentencing proceedings. The data reveals a schism between these groups, reflecting different responses to…
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Access to Administrative Justice as an Administrative Law Value: Designing an Inclusive and Accessible Administrative Justice System
The constantly developing norm of access to justice is moving to occupy a central place in the administrative justice system, prompting a need to rethink the values that should serve to animate the system. This article offers a framework for the administrative justice system in Canada, one that…
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Reducing The “Justice Gap” Through Access to Unbundled Legal Services: Utilizing an A2J Measurement Framework to Measure Unbundling Effectiveness
The ever-growing disparity between the cost of legal services and Canadians’ ability to pay for those services is known as the “justice gap.” As that gap widens, stakeholders must look for innovative ways to address it. In recent years, the potential for lawyers to offer unbundled legal services…