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Catalogue Entry: Voice of the Child Programs and Services in Canada by Province and Territory
In Canada, there are many ways to include children’s voices in family law matters such as through non-court child inclusive methods (e.g., children talking with their parents,... -
Catalogue Entry: Strengthening Canada’s bail system to improve public safety and reinforce...
Proposed legislative amendments to the Criminal Code to address repeat violent offending, crime involving firearms, dangerous weapons, intimate partner violence, and community... -
Catalogue Entry: What we learned to date report on the implementation of the United Nations...
This document provides an overview of the significant number of priorities and proposed measures shared by Indigenous peoples, to date and summarized by Justice Canada, in the...-
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Catalogue Entry: The Role of Crown Prosecutors in Child Advocacy Centres in Canada
Given the legal and practical constraints of the role of the prosecutor in CACs across jurisdictions in Canada, the aim of the current project was to explore how these... -
Catalogue Entry: Legal Aid Service Delivery in Rural and Remote Communities across Canada:...
This report presents research findings on the delivery of legal aid and associated legal services to persons living in rural and remote areas of all provinces and territories.... -
Catalogue Entry: What We Heard Report: HIV non-disclosure public consultation
The Government of Canada is reviewing the criminal law on HIV non-disclosure and sought feedback from the Canadian public through an online consultation. Participants were...-
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Catalogue Entry: JustFacts: Drug-Related Offences Subject to a Mandatory Minimum Penalty,...
This fact sheet presents information on criminal court cases where the most serious offence in the case is a drug-related offence subject to a mandatory minimum penalty (MMP).... -
Catalogue Entry: Infographic: Victims of Hate Crime, 2021
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Catalogue Entry: JustFacts: Victims of Hate Crime, 2015-2021
Data in this fact sheet are from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) and the 2019 General Social Survey on Canadians’ Safety (also known as the GSS on Victimization). The... -
Catalogue Entry: JustFacts: Sentencing in Adult Criminal Courts in Canada in 2020–2021
This fact sheet is based on publicly available data from Statistics Canada. It examines data from 2020–2021 ─ the first year following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. At... -
Catalogue Entry: Infographic: Legal Aid in Canada 2021-22
The annual legal aid report presents data on legal aid delivery in Canada. This infographic presents trend data over five years from 2017-18 to 2021-22 -
Catalogue Entry: Legal Aid in Canada 2021-22
While policy development related to criminal legal aid is a shared federal/provincial/territorial responsibility, each province and territory is responsible for the delivery of... -
Catalogue Entry: Costs of crime in Canada, 2014
Crime in Canada is a costly social phenomenon that affects everyone. The effects of crime are far-reaching and can include: -direct financial costs to the institutions that make... -
Catalogue Entry: Privacy Act Modernization
The Department of Justice Canada has been leading efforts to modernize the federal Privacy Act, which is a key piece of Canada’s legal framework for protecting privacy... -
Catalogue Entry: Making appropriate parenting arrangements in family violence cases, 2023
This paper is a revision of the 2005 Justice Canada publication entitled Making Appropriate Parenting Arrangements in Family Violence Cases: Applying the Literature to Identify... -
Catalogue Entry: Understanding family violence in diverse communities: What subject-matter...
This report summarizes five thought papers written by subject-matter experts to assist family law legal advisers in identifying and responding to family violence in diverse... -
Catalogue Entry: Child to parent violence and aggression: Reviewing the research
Child-to-parent violence and aggression (CPVA) is described as a form of family violence characterized by a pattern (as opposed to a single incident) of violent and aggressive... -
Catalogue Entry: Experiences of Indigenous families in the family justice system: A...
The United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) asserts Indigenous peoples’ “right to access to and prompt decision through just and fair procedures... -
Catalogue Entry: Indigenous Justice Strategy
In consultation and cooperation with Indigenous and provincial and territorial partners, Justice Canada is developing an Indigenous Justice Strategy to address systemic... -
Catalogue Entry: Justice in Official Languages Newsletter No. 19, Summer 2023
A wind of change is blowing on official languages in Canada. In the space of a few weeks this spring, the government unveiled a new Federal Action Plan with historic investments...