Access to Justice for Trans People Report

The report Access to Justice for Trans People aims to identify barriers and challenges for trans people in accessing justice and recommends improvements. The report was produced by the CBA National Access to Justice Subcommittee and the CBA Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community Section in coalition with HALCO and the TRANSforming JUSTICE: Trans Legal Needs Assessment Ontario (TRANSforming JUSTICE) research team.

Envisioning Equal Justice Summit

Following the discussions at the CBA’s Envisioning Equal Justice Summit in Vancouver 2013, we produced three reports:

• The Executive Summary of Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act
• Read The Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act, Summary Report 
• Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act, Report of the CBA Access to Justice Committee, complete strategic framework

Research and Consultation Papers (prepared by the CBA’s Access to Justice Committee during the Equal Justice initiative)

• Justice Talk - Community consultations
• Building Block 1: Access to Justice Metrics, April 2013
• Consultation with researchers and academics
• Building Block 2: Toward National Standards for Publicly-Funded Legal Services, April 2013
• CBA Legal Aid Survey Results
• Building Block 3: Future Directions for Legal Aid Delivery, April 2013
• Building Block 4: “Tension at the Border”: Pro Bono and Legal Aid, October 2012
• Summary of feedback to discussion paper
• Building Block 5: Underexplored Alternatives for the Middle Class, February 2013
• Selected Inventory of Initiatives to Improve Access to Justice for the Middle Class
• Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada
• Legal Expense Insurance
• Unbundled Legal Services
• Low and Pro Bono
• Supply Side Issues
• Alternatives to Billable Hours
• Moving Forward in Legal Aid: Research on Needs and Innovative Approaches 
• Making the Case: The Right to Publicly-Funded Legal Representation in Canada (2002)

Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters

The Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters was established by the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Canada, and chaired by Justice Cromwell. It is working to develop a national visionfor access to justice and to reduce barriers to Canada’s civil system of justice. The Action Committee released several working group reports:

• Report of the Court Processes Simplification Working Group
• Report of the Access to Legal Services Working Group
• Report of the Prevention, Triage and Referral Working Group
• Report of the Family Justice Working Group
• A Roadmap for Change

Low Commission’s Final Report

The Low Commission on the Future of Advice and Legal Support’s Final Report details a strategy for access to advice and legal support on social welfare law in England and Wales.

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, now at York University, Is undertaking a five-year research project on the costs of the fair and effective resolution of legal problems. The Forum provides an inventory of reforms detailing innovative programs to improve access to justice related to court procedures, legal aid public legal education, and other information programs. The Forum received a $1 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study the cost of civil justice.