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The Centre for the Legal Profession
is pleased to host
A Celebration of Ontario’s Community Legal Clinics
November 12, 2009
University of Toronto Conference Facility
"A Celebration of Ontario's Community Legal Clinics" is a one-day Symposium, was held on 12 November 2009 at the University of Toronto's Conference Facility. The Symposium provided an opportunity for the legal community to celebrate and reflect on four decades of accomplishments by Ontario’s community legal clinics in promoting access to justice for the most disadvantaged Ontarians. The Symposium brought together clinic representatives and members of the broader legal and social justice communities to review clinics’ past achievements and current challenges, and to discuss recent policy reports with respect to the role of community legal clinics in ensuring access to justice for all Ontarians.*
Sponsored in part by the:
- Law Foundation of Ontario;
- Osgoode Hall Law School (York University);
- University Of Toronto Faculty of Law.
For more information see: http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty_content.asp?itemPath=1/13/0/0/0&contentId=1926
* Adapted From Documentation produced by the symposium organizers. Please note this supposium was organized independently from the ACLCO. The comments presented in the webcasts are those of the participants and/or the organizers, and do not reflect positions of the ACLCO.
Agenda and Webcast
The entire symposium can be viewed via webcast. Click on each link below to view the webcast of that part of the event.
2009 ACLCO AGM
On May 8, 2009 the ACLCO held a panel presentation bringing together speakers to address the issue of current trends and issues facing community legal clinics and poverty law clients in Ontario today.
The presenters were:
Keynote speaker:
Jim Stanford:
Jim addressed the need to understand the economics of the current crisis and the need for enhanced “economic literacy” for all social activists and social service providers if they are to realize better social outcomes for the people they serve.
Jim’s keynote address built on the work he has recently undertaken as published in his recent book, Economics for Everyone. (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing and the Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008)
- Proceeds from the sale of his book benefit the Centre for Policy Alternatives and the book can be purchased from Chapters, and online at: www.economicsforeveryone.ca
Although Jim’s presentation was geared to the work of community legal clinics a similar presentation to that which he gave on May 8th can be viewed online at:
Panel Presentations:
"Issues and Challenges Facing Clinics and Non Profit Agencies today"
- Professor Mary Jane Mossman, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, on Prioritizing Legal Aid Needs and Demands.
- Professor Laurie Mook, Co-Director, Social Economy Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, On Social Accounting and Other Appropriate Ways to Measure Social Agencies.
Further Reading: Laurie Mook, Jack Richmond and Betty Jane Quarter, What Counts: Social Accounting for Non- Profits and Cooperatives, 2nd Edition (London: Sigel Press, 2006).
Can be purchased at:
- Tanya Lee, Project Director, Linguistic and Rural Access to Justice, Law Foundation of Ontario on Linguistic and Rural Access to Justice.
For Further Information on this project visit the LFO website at:
- Mary Marrone, Executive Director, Income Security Advocacy Clinic, on How Clinics can fit within the Poverty Reduction Strategy.
Moderator: Gerda Kaegi.
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ACLCO Submission on behalf of Ontario's Community Legal Clinics (December 19, 2008) to Legal Aid Ontario in Response to the LAO Discussion Paper on "Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships and Accountability Regarding Clinic Law Services" of July 2008.
During the period from September through December 2008 the ACLCO undertook an extensive consultation with Ontario’s Community Legal Clinics in accordance with its Consultation Policy (2008) (Ms Word & PDF) to develop a response to LAO’s Discussion Paper on "Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships and Accountability Regarding Clinic Law Services" of July 2008.
In light of the significant changes being contemplated to the LAO-clinic-ACLCO relationship outlined in the paper the ACLCO undertook a series of regional consultations culminating in a provincial conference held in Toronto on October 4, 2008. To assist clinics and ensure the exchange of ideas the ACLCO prepared an analysis document to the LAO discussion paper (that did not put forward positions but rather raised open questions) for clinic consideration, released roll up reports on the regional and provincial conferences before releasing its draft outline for a response to LAO’s Discussion paper.
On the basis of written feedback from clinics to the outline, the ACLCO developed the submission reproduced here.
The ACLCO believes that this submission accurately reflects the consensus position of the Ontario Community Legal Clinic System.
- Submission Release: Dec 19, 2008.
ACLCO Executive Director, Lenny Abramowicz was invited to speak to the clinic staff attending the Southwest regional training on April 11, 2008. The subject of his speech concerned his thoughts on the future of the LAO-Clinic-ACLCO relationship. The topic is timely given LAO's forthcoming discussion paper on this subject. Although the speech reflects the author’s personal reflections on the subject, it has been informed by discussions within the Executive over the past two years.
The ACLCO Executive is pleased to endorse the perspective set out in this paper:
"Clinics at the Crossroads: The Future for Community Legal Clinics in Ontario." A Speech by Lenny Abramowicz to Southwest Regional Training, April 11, 2008.
MS Word PDF
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For further information regarding recent trends in Funder-Fundee relations please see:
Bryan Evans, Ted Richmond and John Shields, “Structuring Neoliberal Governance:
At the 2007 ACLCO AGM (May 11th) The Honourable Justice R. Roy McMurtry, then Chief Justice of Ontario, presented the keynote address and was presented with the Stephen Little Memorial Award, for outstanding contributions to the Ontario Community Legal Clinic System. We have reproduced Mr. Justice McMurtry's Keynote Address which is a testament to his ongoing commitment to access to Justice
Chief Justice R. Roy McMurtry Receiving the Stephen Little Memorial Award by ACLCO Executive Director, Lenny Abramowicz, and ACLCO co-chairs, John McKinnon (Staff, IWC)and Steve Webster (Board, South Ottawa Community Legal Services).
John Shields, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at York University and Ryerson University participated in a panel presentation on Friday May 9th, 2008 on Funder-Fundee Relations. |
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