We held our sensemaking and ideation workshop on the Youth Voices Initiative on January 28, 2018. We will be publishing more detailed information in this page soon but, in the meantime, we are excited to share some of the tools we used for the workshop in case they are useful for other designers. First, huge […]
Read postBuilding on our previous post, we are thrilled to welcome Woody Mosten (the “father of unbundling”) as our special guest for an interactive and practical workshop in Vancouver on unbundled legal services on January 31, 2018. You can take advantage of early registration discounts until December 31st! Click here for more information and registration details. […]
Read postThe Lab continues to support the Unbundling Initiative now that the Law Foundation funded project has wound up. Unbundled legal services are a key part of the access to justice puzzle AND a way for lawyers to begin to practice law differently – in a way that meets their personal and professional goals and values. […]
Read postIn New Zealand, mediation is mandatory for families before they seek the assistance of the court for parenting arrangements arising from separation and divorce. Policy and legislation was introduced in 2014 to require mediation because of well-established evidence that mediation was more affordable, faster and produced better outcomes for families than the court system. A […]
Read postThe National Action Committee on Access to Justice held its annual meeting in Vancouver earlier this month. Members of the committee and others keenly interested in access to justice from across the country gathered to share ideas, experiences and stories. On March 22, 2017, the day prior to the actual meeting, the NAC organized a […]
Read postPrevious posts have tackled the important question of why engaging with system users (in our case BC families experiencing separation and divorce) is critical to effective justice reform. Some may continue to believe that this is an unnecessary step since system professionals (judges, lawyers, government policy people, academics etc.) have all of the knowledge and […]
Read postHappy New Year everyone! One of the purposes of the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab is to create a space (or platform) for meaningful conversations about how to address the complex adaptive challenge of supporting family well-being as they journey through separation and divorce. The traditional method of gathering justice “insiders” to diagnose the problem […]
Read postThe Lab is moving ahead with the “Youth Voices Initiative“. The purpose of the initiative is to support the well-being of youth whose families experienced separation and divorce. Research shows that the divorce process can be very damaging for children as their well-being is closely linked to the level of conflict between their parents and […]
Read postIn the first three parts of this series I described the thoughts I contributed to the Justice Design Project on how to put the public first in justice system reform. This post attempts to build on that very important theme. I follow Richard Zorza‘s Access to Justice Blog. Richard is one of my justice heroes […]
Read postOur friends at Mediate BC are excited to announce two important milestones in its unbundled legal services adventure (in partnership with Access to Justice BC): Publication of a Toolkit for Lawyers and Paralegals (version 1.0); and An invitation to receive more information about the BC Family Unbundling Roster The Toolkit version 1.0 During the surveys […]
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