In Canada, the Action Committee adopted its nine Justice Development Goals after working collaboratively with people across the country to examine how to advance access to justice (A2J). These nine goals map out a path to improve A2J that everyone, whatever they are working on, can follow to align their work toward a more inclusive and accessible system. This progress report indicates 6,254,736 people were impacted by 2021 A2J projects.
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Justice Development Goal 1: Address Everyday Legal Problems
Educate Early
Recommendation 1: Provide targeted, free, accessible public legal education about frequent legal issues, different types of solutions and the process of enforcing rights.-
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Justice Development Goal 1: Address Everyday Legal Problems
Prevent
Recommendation 2: Foster legal capability so that people can spot legal issues early, get preventative or proactive help and anticipate, avoid or manage frequent legal issues.-
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Justice Development Goal 1: Address Everyday Legal Problems
Offer a Continuum of Services
Recommendation 3: Develop and expand legal services to include the full continuum of information, advice, help lines, online services, in-person services, and partial or full representation.-
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Justice Development Goal 1: Address Everyday Legal Problems
Reflect Canadian Society
Recommendation 4: Put the services people need in the communities where they live with the resources to address the barriers they face.-
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Justice Development Goal 2: Meet Legal Needs
Focus on Legal Needs for Everyone
Recommendation 5: Focus on addressing service gaps for basic, essential legal services including family law, wills, employment, housing and consumer issues.-
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Justice Development Goal 2: Meet Legal Needs
Encourage Innovation
Recommendation 6: Develop and expand alternative ways to get legal help including different kinds of professionals, partnerships or ways of doing business.-
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Justice Development Goal 2: Meet Legal Needs
Expand Scope of Legal Aid
Recommendation 7: Make legal aid available to more people and for a wider range of legal problems.-
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Justice Development Goal 2: Meet Legal Needs
Focus on Access to Justice
Recommendation 8: Emphasize the responsibility of lawyers and paralegals to fill access to justice gaps.-
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Justice Development Goal 3: Make Courts Work Better
Ensure Access to Courts
Recommendation 9: Courts must be adequately staffed and located where people live to make sure people can get access to a judge when needed, especially when fundamental and constitutional rights are at stake.-
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Justice Development Goal 3: Make Courts Work Better
Promote Multi Service Centres
Recommendation 10: Courthouses should offer mediation, dispute resolution, and informal or non-legal services to make it easy for people to access cheaper and simpler options at any stage of the process.-
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