This guide is designed to empower CBA members to effectively advocate for greater access to justice. It summarizes key access to justice issues in Canada, and links to advocacy tools members can use to advocate for change.
Overview
This guide is organized into three parts:
Preventing Problems
Improving legal capability, taking legal health seriously, enhancing triage and referral systems to navigate paths to justice as quickly and efficiently as possible, and taking steps to ensure that technology is well used to facilitate equal, inclusive justice.
Providing Legal Services
Reinventing the delivery of legal services so that a wide spectrum of legal services are available to meet the range of legal needs.
Transforming Justice
Reforming the formal justice system is to complement informal everyday justice innovations, and eliminate gaps between formal and informal justice to create a seamless civil justice system.
Each section of this guide includes practical tools and resources created by CBA and others to help you advocate for greater access to justice. It also includes tools that will allow you to:
- Spread the word! Talk about access to justice with your colleagues, clients, communities and friends.
- Be social! Post on social media about access to justice issues.
- Ask questions! Ask politicians what they intend to do about this problem.