The pandemic has created a renewed focus on mental health, especially within the justice sector. Legal professionals are not only striving to look after their own mental health and wellness but are often serving clients facing mental health challenges themselves.
For the past 20 years, Pro Bono Ontario (PBO) has been engaged in addressing Ontario's A2J crisis.
Enhancing the legal professions’ relationships with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples is a priority in advancing access to justice.
In this session, licensees will learn how to use their legal training and experience to help respond to the Afghan crisis.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to actions 27 and 28 focus on cultural competency training for lawyers and law students.
A virtual legal clinic will be offered free of charge to residents of Northeastern Ontario on October 28 and 29, 2020.
The goal of this webinar is to encourage lawyers to offer unbundled services, and for the public to learn more about how these services work.
A Conversation about Access to Justice & Systemic Racism with Trevor Farrow & Joshua Sealy-Harrington, moderated by Dean Barbara Billingsley.
This session will provide an overview of and seek feedback on a recent report, “Community Justice Help: Advancing Community-Based Access to Justice”, released by Community Legal Education Ontario.
Join our discussion about a number of these projects and the impact that they have already had on access to family law services.
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