Special Reports

Contents : Introduction; Message from the Treasurer; Payment for lawyers; Criminal law priorities and tariffs; Family law priorities and tariffs; Immigration / refugee priorities and tariffs; and, Civil litigation priorities and tariffs.

The report includes interviews with a cross-section of the legal profession about the relationship between their faith/spiritual belief(s) and practices, the rule of law and legal practice. The following individuals were interviewed: Kiran Kaur Bhinder (Sikh), Judith Holzman (Jewish), Douglas Elliott (Christian), Vinay Jain (Jain), John Borrows (Aboriginal), Amina Sherazee (Muslim), Anita Balakrishna (Hindu), and Eric Nguyen (Buddhist).

Table of Contents : List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Section 1. Introduction; Section 2. Characteristics of the sample; Section 3. Characteristics of current position; Section 4. The private practice of law; Section 5. Workplace issues; Section 6. Analysis of comments offered by participants; Section 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: Covering letters to questionnaire; Appendix B: Questionnaire.

Contents : Executive summary; Why are civil legal needs important to all Ontarians?; What low and middle-income Ontarians told us about their civil legal needs; Finding legal services and legal information; A path for the future: addressing people's unmet civil legal needs; Appendix A. The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project process; Appendix B. Organizational profiles.

Contents : Foreward; Introduction; I. A brief history of legal education in Ontario; II. Review of the state of legal education; III. Recommendations; Appendices: A. List of recommendations; B. Background papers completed for the Special Committee on Legal Education, Written briefs submitted to the Special Committee on Legal Education, Reports of Legal Education Committee; C. Report of the Sub-Committee Appointed to Consider the Financial Implications of Changes in the Bar Admission Course, Outline of possible stages of development of the Bar Admission Course; D. Summary of 1957 regulations of the Law Society of Upper Canada for approved law courses, Changes in the regulations concerning approved law schools passed by the Law Society of Upper Canada, March 1969.

Table of Contents : Executive summary; Foreward by the Paralegal Standing Committee; Introduction; History of paralegal regulation; Analysis of paralegal regulation; Conclusions; Appendices.

Contents : Executive summary; List of tables; List of charts; Introduction; Conducting research on Ontario lawyers using the Canadian censuses; Representation of Aboriginal people and members of visible minorities; Representation of women in the legal profession; Race, gender and the workplace; Incomes of lawyers; Conclusions; Methodological appendix: measures and concepts in this study; Notes.

Contents : Message from the Chair -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- The geography of civil legal services in Ontario -- Discussion -- Conclusion and appendices. Appendix A: Literature review -- The "geography of advice seeking": findings from the United Kingdom -- The distribution of solicitors -- Solicitors’ decisions about where to practice -- The Alberta Legal Services Mapping Project -- Appendix B: Ontario census division reference map -- Appendix C: Legal Aid Ontario funding by census division.

Table of Contents : List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Section 1. Introduction; Section 2. Current professional position; Section 3. Private practice; Section 4. Workplace issues; Section 5. Professional work histories; Section 6. Analysis of comments offered by participants in the study; Section 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: Covering letters to questionnaire; Appendix B: Questionnaire.