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Civil Justice Reform

Civil Justice Reform in British Columbia

The Ministry of Attorney General has been exploring, promoting and implementing civil justice reform for many years. An early report was the Report of the Justice Reform Commission in 1998:

• Report of the Justice Reform Commission, 1988, Summary of Recommendations [PDF]

Since 2002, a number of other reports on justice reform in B.C. have been written and many justice reform initiatives have been introduced.

For background information on civil justice reform initiatives see:

• Exploring Fundamental Change: A Compendium of Potential Justice System Reforms [PDF]
• Innovation and Conflict Resolution in the Civil Justice System [PDF]
• The Role of Government Policy in Shaping DR Policies in BC [PDF]
• Green Paper: Foundations of Civil Justice Reform [PDF]
• The Civil Justice Reform Context Behind British Columbia's Expedited Litigation Rules and Small Claims Court Jurisdictional Limit Increase [PDF]
• Themes in Civil Justice [PDF]
• The Reality of Civil Justice Reform: Why We Must Abandon the Essential Elements of Our System [PDF]
• Access to Justice, Final Report, England, 1996
• Is the Adversary System Really Dead? Dilemmas of Legal Ethics as Legal Institutions and Roles Evolve [PDF]