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REACH Canada
Access to Justice: Challenges and Future Directions
Education
Ottawa, Ontario
September 12, 2014
613-236-6636
reach@reach.ca
https://www.reach.ca/
Access to Justice: Challenges and Future Directions

September 12, 2014

This seminar deals with the legal barriers disabled individuals must face and what’s envisioned for improving the status quo. The main point of this lecture is anchored in our Chief Justice B. McLachlin’s belief, namely, that “Nothing is more important than justice and the just society.”

Basing their holistic discourse on such innovative views as the Canadian Bar Association’s 2013 Youtube presentation entitled “Equal Justice: Balancing the Scales” and Melina Buckley’s Reaching Equal Justice (2013) report, speakers John H. Sims, Q.C. (Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Access to Justice), David Lepofsky (champion since the 1970s for laws to defend the rights of individuals with disabilities in Canada) and Rob Boyd (senior staff member at Ottawa’s Sandy Hill Community Health Centre whose in-depth knowledge of our criminal justice system as it affects people with drug dependencies is impressively vast) will each address a variety of questions tailored to people with special needs when seeking judicial assistance.

The outcome expected is EDUCATIONAL. As per REACH Canada’s mission, by way of educational programs like this ACCESS TO JUSTICE: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS seminar, our goal is to “address the rights and interests of persons with disabilities, fostering access to justice in the community.” Via perhaps future laws and policies aiming at improving both the perception and the reality of access to justice for the disabled.

Registration:

To register, please download the registration form and return it by email, fax, or mail or call 613.236.6636

Location: 400 Coventry Road, Enbridge Building.

Price includes a light breakfast

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