Resources

Technology has become an important part of contemporary legal practice. Lawyers should be able to recognize when using technology is needed to provide a legal service effectively and understand how to use technology responsibly and ethically.

Moving Forward on Legal Aid: Research on Needs and Innovative Approaches presents new research findings, profiles innovations in legal aid service delivery in Canada and elsewhere and suggests future directions to improve legal aid and access to justice generally.

Top 10 Ways to reduce court delays.

A joint Working Group of the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada (ALAP) and the Canadian Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee (CBA) agreed to collaborate to formulate national legal aid benchmarks for Canada.

Key facts and ways to solve the legal aid crisis in Canada.

Addresses and links to legal aid offices across the country.

A Working Group of the Canadian Bar Association Access to Justice Committee (CBA Committee) and the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada (ALAP) initiated the National Legal Aid Benchmarks project to encourage new ways of thinking about legal aid reform and build support for substantial change.

In spring 2015, a Working Group of the Canadian Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee (CBA Committee) and the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada (ALAP) initiated the National Legal Aid Benchmarks project. The project is intended to start a different type of conversation and encourage new ways of thinking about legal aid reform, to build support for and encourage substantial change.

Themes, Definitions and Recommendations Arising from Community Consultations.

A Consultation Document prepared by the Canadian Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Access to Justice.