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Justice Needs and Satisfaction in the United States of America 2021 Legal problems in daily life

This report, produced by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) and HiiL, provides nationwide data from the United States on the justice needs that Americans experience every day. It also discusses how people in the United States resolve their justice needs, as well as what is working and what isn’t,

So you’re representing yourself: A primer to help you get ready to represent yourself in family or civil court

This resource, produced by the National Self-Represented Litigants’ Project, provides tips to self-represented litigants on how to participate in family and civil law mediation, negotiation, and court processes.

Become a Steps to Justice expert!

Recorded August 17, 2021
CLEO’s Deborah Bourk led us through examples showing how to leverage the features on the Steps to Justice website to help your clients. The website gives reliable, practical information on common legal problems your clients face, including:

step-by-step information to work through common problems in housing,

Canada’s Justice Development Goals: 2020: Challenge and Change

This report highlights access to justice efforts across Canada in 2020, according to an established framework for accessible justice in Canada which is revisited annually. This year’s report contains a special feature on justice sector responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Projects and data captured in the report are shared on an annual basis with the authoring organization by justice sector organizations across the country,

Digital Evictions: The Landlord and Tenant Board’s experiment with online evictions

This report provides data from 251 online evictions across Ontario convened online from March to May 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report notes a growing digital divide between tenants and landlords in the ability to participate in virtual eviction hearings; less tenants than landlords attended the hearings,