Legal Service Provision in Northern Canada
Summary of Research in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon
Table of Contents
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. METHODOLOGY
- 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- 3.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
- 3.1.1 Demographics
- 3.1.2 Geography and access
- 3.1.3 Alcohol and FAS/E
- 3.1.4 Crime and policing
- 3.1.5 Lack of services at the community level
- 3.2 SYSTEMS FOR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES
- 3.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
- 4. IMPACT OF COURT STRUCTURE, GEOGRAPHY, AND CULTURE ON LEGAL SERVICES DEMAND, PATTERN, AND QUALITY
- 5. CIRCUIT COURTS
- 6. COURTWORKERS
- 7. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURTS
- 8. CIVIL LEGAL AID
- 9. ACTIVITIES PRIOR TO FIRST APPEARANCE
- 10. INTERPLAY BETWEEN CRIMINAL AND CIVIL ISSUES
- 11. PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION AND INFORMATION
- 12. COST DRIVERS
- 12.1 COMMON COST DRIVERS
- 12.2 OTHER COST DRIVERS
- 13. FEDERAL AND TERRITORIAL LEGISLATION AND POLICIES
- 14. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
- 15. CONCLUSION
FIGURES AND TABLES
- Table 2.1 - Summary of Research Methodologies
- Table 3.1 - Legal Service Organization Mandates
- Table 3.2 - Resources for Legal Service Provision
- Table 3.3 - Approved Applications for Legal Aid (1999-2002 inclusive)
- Table 3.4 - Applications Denied (Percentage of Received 2000-01) and Primary Reasons for Denial
- Table 4.1 - Unmet Need Resulting from Geography and Culture
- Table 5.1 - Unmet Need Resulting from the Circuit Court Structure
- Table 6.1 - Differences in Courtworker Service Provision
- Table 6.2 - Unmet Need for Courtworker Services
- Table 7.1 - Unmet Need Resulting from Justice of the Peace Courts
- Table 8.1 - Unmet Need in Civil and Family Law
- Table 9.1 - Unmet Need Prior to First Appearance
- Table 11.1 - Current Methods of PLEI Delivery
- Table 11.2 - Unmet Need for PLEI
- Table 14.1 - Proposed Solutions to Areas of Unmet Need in the Northwest Territories
- Table 14.2 - Proposed Solutions to Areas of Unmet Need in Nunavut
- Table 14.3 - Proposed Solutions to Areas of Unmet Need in the Yukon
ACRONYMS
- CW
- Courtworker
- CYFN
- Council of Yukon First Nations
- DVTO
- Domestic Violence Treatment Option (Yukon)
- FVPA
- Family Violence Protection Act (Yukon)
- GNWT
- Government of the Northwest Territories
- JP
- Justice of the Peace
- JP court
- Justice of the Peace court
- LSB
- Legal Services Board (N.W.T.)
- MVA
- Motor Vehicle Act (Yukon)
- NCJ
- Nunavut Court of Justice
- NLSB
- Nunavut Legal Services Board
- N.W.T.
- Northwest Territories
- PLEI
- Public Legal Education and Information
- RCMP
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- YCJA
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
- YLSS
- Yukon Legal Services Society
- YPLEA
- Yukon Public Legal Education Association
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