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Special Issue 39-3: Person-Centred Justice: Reimagining Law, Institutions, and Process

Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2025

Andrew Pilliar
Affiliation:
1Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law
Michelle Lawrence*
Affiliation:
2Associate Professor at University of Victoria Faculty of Law
*
Corresponding author: Michelle Lawrence; Email: mlawr@uvic.ca
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It has been more than a decade since the publication of three major reports on access to justice in Canada. These reports, namely Access to Civil and Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change1 by the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation to Envision and Act2 by the Canadian Bar Association, and the final report of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project,3 spurred considerable discussion, research, and action to understand and improve the state of access to justice in Canada. Importantly, all called for some variation on making the justice system “user-centered,”4 “people-centered,”5 or “user-friendly.”6

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