Grants and Contributions

The organization is dedicated to the development and delivery of educational programs for all federal, provincial, and territorial judges. The Institute's programs stimulate continuing professional and personal growth and reflect Canada's cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity, as well as the changing demands on the judiciary in a rapidly-evolving society. The programs focus on three major components of judicial education: substantive law, skills training, and social context issues. The work of the organization aims to improve the administration of justice across Canada and to ensure that the Canadian justice system is fair, relevant and accessible.

When members of the same family are involved in more than one aspect of the legal system in a family violence related case, the sharing of information through multiple proceedings in the Canadian legal system becomes cumbersome and difficult. The University of New Brunswick research team will undertake a research study to inform the development of Canada's first Coordinated Family Violence Court Model. This will include accurate information exchange protocols to improve information sharing for family violence cases. This will help to improve a fragmented legal system and improve the sharing of information in a timely matter.

The organization aims to harmonize the laws of the provinces and territories of Canada, and where appropriate the federal laws as well. It also makes recommendations for changes to federal criminal legislation based on identified deficiencies, defects or gaps in the existing law, or based on problems created by judicial interpretation of existing law. The organization also launched the Commercial Law Strategy, which aims to modernize and harmonize Canadian commercial law.

The Recipient agrees to contribute to addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system through prevention, diversion and reintegration activities.

The recipient agrees to contribute to addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system through prevention, diversion and reintegration activities.

The Recipient agrees to contribute to addressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system through prevention, diversion and reintegration activities.

The recipient agrees to contribute to adressing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system through prevention, diversion and reintegration activities.

Provide financial assistance to an individual Canadian victim of a specified serious violent crime in a foreign jurisdiction for emergency situations of undue hardship where no other source of financial assistance is available (specified categories of crimes are homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault or assault with serious personal violence, or threat of serious violence, including against a child) or to an individual support person to accompany, attend with or support a Canadian victimized in a foreign jurisdiction. A total of 23 individuals received financial assistance in this regard.

Provide financial assistance to an individual victim or support person (as defined in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and who are registered with Correctional Service Canada or the Parole Board of Canada), to attend Parole Board of Canada hearings in respect of the offender who harmed them. A total of 126 individuals received financial assistance in this regard.

This project will develop courses for the new Joint Program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders and establish mandatory field studies in Indigenous communities to promote and encourage involvement in the identification of emerging trends, issues and/or gaps and possible responses with respect to the justice system. Through this funding students will participate in classroom work as well as practical, hands-on experiential learning through field schools and work in Indigenous territories.