Pub Date : 2018-02-14DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I2.5051
A. Kowalsky
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5009
N. Semple
Innovation in family law firms can tangibly improve access to justice in Canada. This article develops that claim by drawing on empirical data and scholarship about Canadian family law. Part 1 explains how and why legal needs arising from the dissolution of intimate relationships are so difficult for the parties to meet. This Part draws on civil legal needs surveys, surveys with lawyers, and data from interviews with litigants. The focus shifts to family law firms (including sole practitioners) in Part 2, using new empirical data about the Canadian lawyers who do this work. Three promising opportunities to innovate for accessibility in family law practice are identified: (i) innovative fee structure; (ii) innovative service variety; and (iii) innovative division of labour. A "third revolution" in Canadian family law is proposed in Part 3. Our family law doctrine was revolutionized beginning in the 1960s, and family law alternative dispute resolution was similarly transfigured beginning in the 1980s. It is now time to foment a third revolution, in family law practice accessibility, to bring the benefits of family justice to all Canadians who need them. L’innovation au sein des cabinets specialises en droit de la famille peut apporter des ameliorations concretes a l’acces a la justice au Canada. C’est ce que soutient l’auteur dans cet article, en se fondant sur des donnees et recherches empiriques sur le droit de la famille canadien. Dans la premiere partie, il explique comment naissent les besoins juridiques des parties en instance de separation ou de divorce, et pourquoi il est si difficile de repondre a ces besoins. Cette partie est fondee sur des enquetes portant sur les besoins juridiques en matiere civile, sur des sondages menes aupres des avocats et sur des donnees decoulant d’entrevues aupres des parties aux litiges. Dans la deuxieme partie, l’accent est mis sur les cabinets specialises en droit de la famille (y compris les avocats qui travaillent seuls), et l’auteur s’inspire cette fois de nouvelles donnees empiriques au sujet des avocats canadiens qui exercent dans ce domaine. Des possibilites d’innovation susceptibles d’accroitre l’accessibilite dans le domaine du droit de la famille sont relevees dans trois domaines : (i) la structure des honoraires; (ii) l’eventail de services; (iii) la repartition de la main-d’œuvre. Une « troisieme revolution » en droit de la famille canadien est proposee dans cette meme partie. Notre doctrine dans ce domaine a ete revolutionnee a compter des annees 1960, et le mode substitutif de resolution des differends en matiere familiale a lui aussi ete transfigure a compter des annees 1980. Le moment est maintenant venu de fomenter une troisieme revolution, qui viserait cette fois-ci l’accessibilite de la pratique en droit de la famille, afin de permettre a tous les Canadiens qui en ont besoin de beneficier des services de justice en matiere familiale.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5013
M. Simmons, Darin Thompson
Increasingly, digital technologies are influencing and impacting dispute resolution, particularly in the emerging field of online dispute resolution (ODR). ODR holds the potential to increase access to justice by engaging disputants in dramatically new ways. As a relatively new subject, ODR is unlikely to form part of the traditional curriculum at law schools. Aside from the question of whether it will become a mainstream part of tomorrow’s legal or dispute resolution landscape, ODR does show us that a familiarity with technology is becoming more important for tomorrow’s lawyers. As educators, how can we expose law students to these new forces of change in a meaningful way? How can we help students understand the benefits and drawbacks technology holds for the challenge of access to justice? This article describes a unique pilot project of an ODR simulation involving three universities in three cities, two continents, and three time zones. The main objectives of the project were to expose law students to ODR from the perspective of a disputant or client; expose clinical mediation students to a range of technology-based dispute resolution processes; demonstrate the potential for technology to support collaboration across vast distances; and promote experiential education by giving students “hands-on” ODR experience. This article will describe the simulation from an educator’s perspective. Les technologies numeriques ont de plus en plus d’influence et de repercussions sur le reglement des differends, surtout dans le nouveau domaine du reglement des conflits en ligne (RCL). Le RCL peut accroitre l’acces a la justice en invitant les parties a adopter des demarches totalement nouvelles. Etant donne qu’il s’agit d’un sujet relativement nouveau, il est peu probable que le RCL soit enseigne dans les ecoles de droit traditionnelles. Independamment de la question de savoir s’il deviendra eventuellement un element essentiel de l’environnement de l’exercice du droit ou du reglement des conflits, ce nouveau processus nous montre que les avocats de demain se doivent de bien connaitre les technologies. En tant qu’educateurs, comment pouvons-nous sensibiliser de facon significative les etudiants et etudiantes en droit a ces nouvelles forces de changement? Comment pouvons-nous les aider a comprendre les avantages et les inconvenients que la technologie peut comporter en ce qui a trait a l’acces a la justice? Dans cet article, les auteures decrivent un projet pilote unique de simulation de RCL auquel participent trois universites situees dans trois villes, deux continents et trois fuseaux horaires differents. Le projet visait principalement a faire connaitre aux etudiants en droit le mecanisme du RCL du point de vue d’une partie ou d’un client; a montrer aux clients des cliniques de mediation le fonctionnement d’un eventail de processus de reglement de conflits axes sur la technologie; a demontrer la mesure dans laquelle la technologie peut appuyer la collaboratio
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/wyaj.v34i1.4995
N. Aylwin, M. Simmons
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5011
Sarah M. Buhler
This article analyzes an innovative community-based educational project called the “Wahkohtowin class” in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The class brings together former gang members, Indigenous high-school students and university students from the disciplines of law, English, and Indigenous studies to learn together about law, justice, and injustice. Students in the class read legal texts together and then discuss and critique these texts in the context of the lived experiences of people in the class. Drawing on the experience of the Wahkohtowin project, this article argues that the practice of lawyers and law students reading and interpreting legal texts and talking about justice together with members of marginalized communities is an “access-to-justice innovation.” It is an innovation because it is a model that positions lawyers and law students not as experts but, rather, as co-learners and co-creators of knowledge with people who possess important lived experiences of the impacts of law and the justice system. It resists the notion that the legal system or lawyers possess a monopoly on justice, opening space for lawyers, law students, and community members to imagine justice together. Overall, this article argues that it is important for those within the legal system who are seeking to improve access to justice to engage with, and learn from, members of marginalized communities who have direct experience with the justice system and that the Wahkohtowin class is one example of how this can happen.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.4999
Susan Ursel
The legal profession faces increasing challenges to the relevance, utility, and acceptance of law and the rule of law as tools of social organization that are important and essential to human beings. Often the issues which challenge law and legal systems seem perennial, obstinate, and intractable. In order to remain relevant to the societies it serves, the law needs to innovate. We need to find new ways of thinking about law as a human designed and deliberate system of social organization. In this context, adopting an innovation mindset is an important starting point. “Design thinking” offers us a description and practice of an innovation mindset that can be and is employed in a variety of professional contexts. This article is an introduction to design thinking, its challenges, and its possibilities for law. It postulates that in fact design thinking as a concept and as a set of techniques is particularly well suited for use in law, and that we actually employ many of its techniques already. The article argues that by bringing these techniques into sharper focus, we can both recognize how we are in some ways using them already, and more importantly, how they can be deployed in even more useful and innovative ways to “build better law” at all scales of the legal endeavour, from individual service to legal systems.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/wyaj.v34i1.4996
J. Morley, Kari D Boyle
Many in the justice system know that fundamental change is needed but few know the best way to do it. Previous attempts using strategic planning approaches have not achieved meaningful change. Something different is needed. The BC Family Justice Innovation Lab (the Lab) is experimenting with a different approach drawing on complexity science, the experience of other jurisdictions and disciplines and incorporating human-centred design as a way of focusing on the well-being of families going through the transition of separation and divorce. This article is the story of the first few years of the Lab’s life. It has been a fascinating and challenging path so far, and it remains to be seen whether it will ultimately succeed. The story is offered so that others with similar ambitions can learn from the Lab’s experience – its successes and its failures. It is the nature and strength of stories that the reader will take from them what they will. For the authors, one overriding theme that emerges from this story is that transforming a complex social system, such as the family justice system in British Columbia, requires embracing the complexity of paradox and refusing to be defeated by the tension of opposites and a multitude of wicked, unanswerable questions. Bon nombre d’intervenants du systeme de justice savent qu’un changement fondamental s’impose, mais peu connaissent la meilleure facon de le realiser. Dans le passe, l’utilisation d’approches de planification strategique n’a pas donne les resultats escomptes. Une approche differente est necessaire. S’inspirant de l’experience vecue dans d’autres ressorts et d’autres disciplines, le BC Family Justice Innovation Lab (le Lab) experimente actuellement une approche differente fondee sur la science de la complexite, et s’efforce d’integrer une conception axee sur la personne afin de mettre de l’avant le bien-etre des familles eprouvees par une separation ou un divorce. Dans cet article, les auteures relatent les premieres annees d’existence du Lab. Le chemin parcouru jusqu’a maintenant est fascinant et met en lumiere des objectifs ambitieux, mais il reste a savoir s’il menera en definitive au succes. L’histoire est racontee pour que d’autres intervenants qui ont des ambitions semblables puissent s’inspirer de l’experience et des succes du Lab et tirer des lecons de ses echecs. En raison de la nature et de la force de ces recits, l’intervenant pourra s’en inspirer pour faire ses propres experiences. De l’avis des auteures, la lecture de ces recits permet de comprendre que, pour transformer un systeme social aussi complexe que celui de la justice familiale de la Colombie-Britannique, il est imperatif de tenir compte des differents enjeux paradoxaux et de refuser de baisser les bras, malgre les tensions creees par les vifs debats et par l’avalanche de questions epineuses auxquelles il est impossible de repondre.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5007
Lorne Sossin
This article explores the adaptation of design thinking to administrative justice. The human centred design perspective has been missing from most debates surrounding the design and reform of administrative tribunals in Canada. As a result, the author asserts that the administrative justice system in Canada at all levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal, and Indigenous) is generally fragmented, poorly coordinated, and under-resourced in relation to the needs of its users and has multiple barriers of entry. This article is divided into two parts. The first part reviews the development of design thinking in the context of legal services and legal organizations. The second part explores the implications of this development for administrative justice, particularly in the context of the establishment of new tribunals. Several examples of tribunal reform are examined from a design thinking perspective. By way of conclusion, the author suggests the criteria that should be applied to evaluate the design of a new administrative tribunal. Dans cet article, l’auteur explore l’adaptation de la pensee conceptuelle a la justice administrative. L’approche conceptuelle axee sur la personne est absente de la plupart des debats entourant la conception et la reforme des tribunaux administratifs au Canada. En consequence, l’auteur fait valoir que le systeme de justice administrative du Canada de tous les ordres (administrations publiques federale, provinciales, municipales et autochtones) est generalement fragmente et mal coordonne et ne possede pas suffisamment de ressources pour repondre aux besoins de ses utilisateurs, en plus d’etre difficilement accessible. L’article comporte deux parties. Dans la premiere, l’auteur passe en revue le developpement de la pensee conceptuelle dans le contexte des services et organismes juridiques. Dans la seconde, il se penche sur les incidences de ce developpement pour la justice administrative, notamment dans le contexte de la creation de nouveaux tribunaux. Il presente aussi plusieurs exemples de reformes de tribunaux du point de vue de la pensee conceptuelle. En guise de conclusion, l’auteur suggere les criteres qu’il serait souhaitable d’appliquer pour evaluer la conception d’un nouveau tribunal administratif
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Pub Date : 2017-12-05DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5010
Brea Lowenberger, Michaela Keet, Janelle Anderson
Heightened concerns and dialogue about access to justice have infused the law school setting in Saskatchewan and, to varying degrees, across the country. If there ever were a time to approach social justice reform differently – to upset traditional parameters around decision making and step around older hierarchies for input and design – it would be now. This article describes the Dean’s Forum on Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice (colloquially known as the Dean’s Forum) as a platform for genuine student engagement in the development of public policy in this important area. We offer our combined reflections, gathered inside our “teaching team,” about the unique pedagogical features of our experiment and its challenges. As we continue to grow with the project, we offer this Saskatchewan story as one example of institutional collaboration in a quickly evolving educational and social policy landscape. L’acces a la justice est une preoccupation croissante et un theme de plus en plus recurrent dans les facultes de droit de la Saskatchewan et, a differents degres, de l’ensemble du pays. Le temps est venu, semble-t-il, d’aborder la reforme de la justice sociale differemment, de bouleverser les parametres traditionnels gravitant autour de la prise de decisions et de contourner les hierarchies plus anciennes en ce qui concerne les donnees et les concepts. Cet article porte sur le forum du doyen concernant le reglement des conflits et l’acces a la justice (familierement appele le Dean’s Forum (forum du doyen)) comme plateforme pour la participation des etudiants a l’elaboration des politiques publiques dans cet important domaine. Nous presentons l’ensemble des reflexions de notre equipe d’enseignants au sujet des elements pedagogiques uniques de notre experience et des difficultes connexes. Nous continuons a grandir avec notre projet, mais nous souhaitions decrire des maintenant cette experience vecue en Saskatchewan a titre d’exemple de collaboration institutionnelle dans un contexte dans lequel les politiques educationnelles et sociales ne cessent d’evoluer.
在萨斯喀彻温省的法学院环境中，以及在不同程度上，对诉诸司法的高度关注和对话已经渗透到全国各地。如果说有什么时候应该以不同的方式进行社会正义改革——打破围绕决策制定的传统参数，绕过旧有的投入和设计等级制度——那就是现在。本文描述了院长争议解决和诉诸司法论坛(俗称院长论坛)，作为一个真正的学生参与这一重要领域公共政策发展的平台。我们提供了我们在“教学团队”中收集的关于我们实验的独特教学特征及其挑战的综合思考。随着项目的不断发展，我们将萨斯喀彻温省的故事作为快速发展的教育和社会政策环境中机构合作的一个例子。“我的正义之路”是一种专注的职业，“我的正义之路”是“我的正义之路”，“我的正义之路”是“我的正义之路”，“我的正义之路”是“我的正义之路”，“我的正义之路”是“我的正义之路”。“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”，“时间”。关于冲突管理和院长论坛(院长论坛)的条款porte sur le le forum du doyen(院长论坛))为学生的参与提供了平台，为政治和公共事务的阐述提供了平台，这是重要的领域。现在，我们要展示的是，我们的整体，我们的反思，我们的设备，我们的主题，我们的要素，我们的独特的教学方法，我们的经验和我们的困难联系。我们继续进行一个伟大的教育项目，主要的教育机构要求我们保持良好的经验，在萨斯喀彻温省，我们建立了一个合作的范例，机构、背景、政治、教育、社会和发展的范例。
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.22329/WYAJ.V34I1.5012
Michele M. Leering
Recent national reports have documented growing justice gaps in Canada and have identified a compelling need for innovation in the justice sector to better meet the needs of the public. Nurturing a greater capacity for individual, collective, and critical reflection will ensure the legal profession is much better equipped to respond creatively and strategically to a lack of equal access to justice. In this article, I explore the generative and transformative potential of reflective practice – an important professional competency in other professional disciplines, but under-theorized in law, and action research – a dynamic and flexible form of qualitative research for supporting a culture of innovation in the legal profession and the justice system. Reflective capacity is a crucial enabler of innovative thinking, and it undergirds approaches to encouraging individual and systems change emerging from the organizational learning and innovation literature. An enhanced capacity for reflection will also support more generative and “future-forming” dialogues within the profession and between justice system stakeholders. Furthermore, systematically reflecting on disorienting empirical data about the troubling state of access to justice could develop an “access to justice consciousness” in law students and legal professionals, leading to a stronger willingness to take action to narrow the justice gaps. Introducing action research as an unpretentious and effective enabler of profound transformation and innovation in individual and organizational practices offers significant promise for tackling the “wicked problem” of access to justice. Practical illustrations of action research as an enabler of innovation drawn from legal practice are provided. De recents rapports font etat de lacunes croissantes du systeme de justice canadien et de la necessite imperieuse d’innover dans le secteur de la justice afin de mieux repondre aux besoins du public. S’ils ont une plus grande capacite de s’engager dans un processus de reflexion individuelle, collective et critique, les membres de la profession juridique seront beaucoup mieux outilles pour reagir de facon creative et strategique aux iniquites inherentes a l’acces a la justice. Dans cet article, j’explore les possibilites de creation et de transformation de la pratique reflexive, soit une competence professionnelle qui a acquis beaucoup d’importance dans d’autres disciplines professionnelles mais qui n’est pas suffisamment enseignee en droit, et de la recherche-action – soit une forme de recherche qualitative souple et dynamique servant a appuyer l’innovation au sein de la profession juridique et du systeme de justice. La capacite reflexive constitue un facteur habilitant crucial de la pensee innovatrice et le fondement d’approches susceptibles de promouvoir les changements individuels, organisationnels et systemiques emergeant de la litterature sur l’apprentissage organisationnel et l’innovation. Une plus grande cap
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