Six Things the Library is Doing to Improve Access to Justice
By Alan Kilpatrick
It is widely recognized that access to justice is inadequate and legal services are becoming increasingly inaccessible. Fortunately, libraries across Canada are working together to improve access to legal information and create solutions to the barriers self-represented litigants face.
What are we doing at the Law Society of Saskatchewan Library? In the past three years, the Law Society Library has participated in a multitude of innovative access to legal information partnerships with justice, community, and library stakeholders. For example, we:
- Provide the public with legal research assistance
- Have nearly doubled the coverage of Saskatchewan case law on CanLII
- Host weekly family law clinics
- Teach the public about legal research at the Regina Public Library’s Legal Resource Fair
- Provide Pro Bono Law and CLASSIC lawyers with free legal research assistance
- Are a founding partner of the Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information Project
Click here to learn more about what the Law Society Library is actively doing to improve access to legal information and justice in Saskatchewan:
• Access to Legal Information Innovation in Saskatchewan
• The Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information Project (SALI)
Do you participate in access to legal information and justice initiatives? Post a link or picture on Twitter using the hashtags #SKA2J and #justiceforall.
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