Legal News (Legal Sourcery)

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October 23, 2020

Canada’s A2J Week Spotlight – Unbundled Legal Services in Canada: Lawyer and Client Feedback

This webinar is hosted by Saskatchewan’s Legal Coaching and Unbundling Working Group and part of Canada's Access to Justice week, taking place from October 26 to 30, 2020 in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. Cost is a significant factor for people trying to access legal services. Unbundling legal services can be a cost effective and efficient alternative for people looking for...

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October 23, 2020

Doing Your Own Legal Research with Alan Kilpatrick

Doing your own legal research for a court case can be intimidating, especially if you have no formal legal training. However, there is help out there for people wanting to represent themselves. Join reference librarian Alan Kilpatrick from the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library to learn about CanLII, a free legal service that can be accessed by anyone via the...

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October 23, 2020

Community Justice Help in Saskatchewan

By Julie Mathews (CLEO: Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario) and David Wiseman (uOttawa Faculty of Law), with assistance from Joel Janow (Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan) This blog post is about an upcoming event A2J Week 2020: Exploring Community Justice Help to Advance Community-based Access to Justice, which will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 28...

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October 22, 2020

Canada’s A2J Week – A Conversation about Access to Justice & Systemic Racism

This event is part of Canada's Access to Justice week, taking place from October 26 to 30, 2020 in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments, non-profit organizations and other justice sector stakeholders in Canada to innovate. As their focus shifts from short term survival to rebuilding for a post-COVID world, how can they best contribute to...

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October 21, 2020

How About a Grant to Improve Access to Justice?

From the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Is your organization aiming to improve access to justice in Saskatchewan? If so, you are already well aware that justice is not yet easily available to all. But are you also aware that the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan (LFS) exists in great part to manage a fund destined to assist not for profit organizations...

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October 21, 2020

Legal Skies Podcast S2E7 – Unbundling Legal Services and Upcoming Webinar

Cost is a significant factor for people trying to access legal services. This episode focuses on how unbundling legal services can be a cost effective and efficient alternative for people looking for legal help. Our guests include John-Paul Boyd, an accredited family law arbitrator based in Alberta, Sonali Sharma founder of Athena Law in British Columbia and Lisa Eisen, founder...

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