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3 Windsor Y.B. Access Just. 375 (1983)
Community Legal Clinics in Ontario

handle is hein.journals/windyrbaj3 and id is 379 raw text is: COMMUNITY LEGAL CLINICS IN ONTARIO Mary Jane Mossman* Ontario has a system of fully funded yet independent network of community law clinics like those advocated in Rees' paper. Professor Mossman explores the forces that led to the establishment of the community clinics, their relationships to the judicare system and the purposes behind the government's assumption of responsibility for funding and defunding clinics: service to low income people, community involvement and representation and independence from funding sources. While Rees seems to suggest that government funded community clinics would automatically further these purposes, Mossman argues that scope of service, community involvement and funding decision processes must be structured very carefully in order to enhance clinics' abilities to engage in meaningful representation, and warns that the early community clinic movement could be easily subverted by concentrating decision making control over clinics in the hands of the government, the law society, the clinic or even of other community groups. Les Centres judiciaires communautaires en Ontario L 'Ontario possede un systeme de centres judiciaires communautaires, completement finances mais inddpendants, comme ceux preconisds dans l'essai de M. Rees. Le professeur Mossman explore les forces qui ont men6 d l'tablissement des centres communautaires, leur rapport avec le systeme d'aide judiciaire, et les buts sous-jacents d la decision gouvernementale de se charger de la responsabilite de financer (ou de cesser de financer) ces centres: service aux pauvres, participation et representation de la communaute, independance j I'egard des sources definancement. Tandis que M. Rees semble suggerer que des centres communautaires finances par le gouvernement avanceraient forciment ces buts, M. Mossman pretend que l'tendue des services, la participation de la communautj et les proc~ds de decision quant au financement doivent etre structures avec grand soin pour augmenter les capacitds des centres d'offrir une representation efficace. Il avertit qu'e6 ses debuts le mouvement de centres communautaires pourrait facilement atre perverti si le contr~le de leurs decisions 6tait concentre entre les mains du gouvernement, de l'association des avocats, du personnel du centre ou mme d'autres groupements communautaires. *Associate Professor Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1983), 3 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

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