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Chief Justice of Canada?s Remarks on Access to Justice

By Michel-Adrien Sheppard

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin spoke last week at the University of Toronto’s Access to Civil Justice for Middle Income Canadians Colloquium about how ordinary people risk being priced out of the justice system. In her speech, she called on governments, academics, judges and lawyers to work to ensure better access to justice for all Canadians.

Her speech and the colloquium attracted some media attention:

• Access to justice becoming a privilege of the rich, judge warns (Globe and Mail, February 10, 2011)
• Legal system doesn’t work for ordinary people, top judge says (Vancouver Sun, February 14, 2011)

More about the University of Toronto’s Middle Income Access to Civil Justice Initiative

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).