You will see the current programme for the upcoming ILAG Conference below. Please note, the programme remains in draft form and is therefore subject to change.
You can download a copy of the latest draft programme here
Monday 17th June
12.00 - 12.30 pm
Registration
12.30 - 1.30 pm
Opening Ceremony
Welcome Remarks & Introduction
The Honourable David Lametti – Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Charles Harnick – Chair, Legal Aid Ontario (to be confirmed)
Professor Alan Paterson – Chair, International Legal Aid Group
1.30 - 2.30 pm
National Reports
Overall Summary: Peter van den Biggelaar
2.30 - 3.30 pm - Session One - Pro Bono
Catherine P Coulter: Pro bono in Ontario
Trevor Farrow: Lawyers and the future of Access to Justice
3.30 - 3.45 pm
Tea/Coffee
3.45 - 5.15 pm - Session Two Approaches to Legal Aid in Canada: Serving Diverse Needs from Coast to Coast to Coast
David McKillop: Project Rosemary
Nick Summers and Megan Longley: Legal aid models in Canada
Karen Wilford: The challenges in services remote and rural communities
7:00 pm
Reception and Dinner – Museum of History
Tuesday 18th June
9:00 - 10.45 am Session Three - Helping the Unrepresented
Bonnie Hough: Can Technology improve Access to Justice in the Courts?
Rosemary Hunter and Liz Trinder: Judges on Judgecraft
Christopher Griffin: Introducing Randomized Experiments to improve Civil Legal Aid Services
Nye Thomas and Ryan Fritsch: AI and Automated Decision-Making: Impact on Access to Justice and Legal Aid
10.45 am - 11 am
Tea/Coffee
11.15 am - 1 pm - Session Four - Exploring Gaps in provision for Vulnerable People
Ab Currie: The bar has been set higher for addressing unmet need. How do we move on from here?
Yu Shan: Data for Social Good: Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Locate Legal Demand for Strategic Thinking
Madhurima Dhanuka: Leaving No One Behind
1:00 - 2.00 pm
Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 pm - Session Five - Holistic provision: The Way of the Future?
Hazel Genn: When Law is Good for Health
Suzie Forell: The impact of legal help beyond Access to Justice: learning from Health Justice Partnerships
Michelle Leering: Justice and Health Partnerships in Ontario
3.30 - 3.45 pm
Tea/Coffee
3.45 - 5.15pm - Session Six - Innovative approaches to questions of cost and affordability
Paul Prettiore: Access to Justice as a Dimension of Poverty: Making an Impact?
Bilal Siddiqi and Justin Sandefur: Delivering Justice to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
John Boersig: Distributing the Legal Aid Dollar – Effective, Efficient and Quality Assured?
Anna Barlow: The Importance of Structure and Context in Legal Aid Comparisons – a Study in North-West Europe
6.15 pm
Reception – Supreme Court of Canada followed by dinner at nearby restaurant
Wednesday 19th June
9:00 - 10.45 am - Session Seven - Quality
Alan Paterson and Avrom Sherr: Does peer review raise standards?
Annika Holterof: Quality Assurance on the Global Stage
10.45 - 11.15 am
Tea/Coffee
11.15am - 1:00pm - Session Eight - Technology and Access
Roger Smith: Access to Justice and Technology: no Killer App
Sherry MacLennan and Earl Johnson: Digital Delivery Issues
Rebecca Sandefur: A Thousand Flowers Bloom Unnoticed: What Makes Legal Technologies for Access to Justice Used and Useful?
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 - 3.45 pm - Session Nine - SDG 16.3 and the Legal Aid at the early stages
Vicky Kemp: Early arrest, early release: prejudicing the right to freedom
Shahin Alii: Early Access to Legal Aid for Suspects in Custody – the Fiji experience
Hennie van As: Admission of guilt and criminal record: Severe enough to warrant legal aid?