Evaluating human rights damages is one of the most challenging aspects of human rights adjudication. The Ontario Human Rights Code gives decisionmakers jurisdiction to order monetary compensation for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect. Where discrimination is found, the...

In 2014, the Law Practice Program (LPP) was introduced in Ontario, creating an alternative to the traditional articling process. The authors consider the demographic make-up of the first cohort of the French LPP and its access to justice implications. Their survey showed that French LPP...

Access to justice has long been in the constitutional real estate market, in search of a home within Canada's constitutional framework. To put it differently, access to justice has been couch surfing through the constitutional jurisprudence and appears to be concurrently residing within two...

This paper advocates for a more active role for adjudicators, one in which they provide direction to parties and actively shape the hearing process. Indeed, active adjudication can be an important access to justice tool. Without some direction and assistance from the adjudicator, growing numbers...