Justice Reform Initiatives ~ Early Solutions, Faster Justice

Publications

Key Concepts in Justice Reform

• Effective and Affordable Civil Justice, Civil Justice Reform Working Group:
  An Expanded Role for Lawyers [PDF]
• A Problem-solving approach to Dispute Resolution [PDF]
• Legal Culture [PDF]
• Change in Legal Culture: Barriers and New Opportunities [PDF]
• Effective and Affordable Civil Justice, Civil Justice Reform Working Group: Cultural Issues [PDF]
• Effective and Affordable Civil Justice, Civil Justice Reform Working Group Report: Proportionality [PDF]
• Proportionality: A More Effective Tool [PDF]
• Access to Justice, Final Report, England, 1996

Civil Justice Reform

• 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]
• Discussion Paper: Major Themes of Civil Justice Reform [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]
• Civil Hub Research Project: Needs Mapping [PDF]
• Effective and Affordable Civil Justice (BC Civil Justice Reform Working Group)
• Systems of Civil Justice (Canadian Bar Association) [PDF]
• Access to Justice (United Kingdom) [PDF]
• Managing Justice, A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System (Australia)

Family Justice Reform

• Family Justice Reform Working Group Report:
  Status of Recommendations, September 2006 [PDF]
• A Problem-solving approach to Dispute Resolution [PDF]
• A New Justice System for Families and Children (excerpt)
• Cross Jurisdictional Survey of Early Case Assessment in Family Disputes [PDF]
• Assessment Tool Paper [PDF]
• Family Justice Portal Paper [PDF]
• A New Justice System for Families and Children (excerpt)
• Civil Hub Research Project: Needs Mapping [PDF]
• Dispute Resolution Programs, Mandatory Dispute Resolution and
  Pre-Action Protocols in Separation and Divorce [PDF]
• Mandatory Dispute Resolution in Child Protection: A Survey of Jurisdictions [PDF]
• A New Justice System for Families and Children (excerpt)
• Family Relations Act Review

Criminal Justice Reform

Information and publications about criminal justice reform in British Columbia is available on the Criminal Justice Reform website.

Administrative Justice Reform

Please see the "Publications and Research" section of the Administrative Justice Office web site.