Access to Justice for All: Towards an Expansive Vision of Justice and Technology
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TECHNOLOGY
Jane Bailey*
Jacquelyn Burkell**
Graham Reynolds***
In this paper, the authors examine developments in the Canadian access to justice
dialogue from Macdonald's seminal 2005 analysis to the recent reports of the National
Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters [NAC]. They draw
on the NAC's call for an expansive vision of access to justice as the basis for critically
evaluating examples of particular technologies used or proposed as responses to the
access to justice crisis in Canada. In so doing, they illustrate the importance of conscious
consideration of deliverables and beneficiaries in prioritizing technologies for
deployment, in determining how the technology ought to be deployed, and in evaluating
the potential of a technology to facilitate access to justice. The authors argue that
nuanced accounts of the relationships between justice deliverables, technological
mechanisms for delivery and intended justice beneficiaries are essential to developing
good decision-making mechanisms with respect to access to justice and technology.
Dans le present article, les auteurs examinent 1'evolution du dialogue canadien sur
l'accbs at la justice, depuis l'analyse fondamentale de Macdonald en 2005 jusqu 'aux
rcents rapports du Comit national d'action sur l'accbs a la justice en matkre civile et
familiale (CNA). Ils se fondent sur la vision ilargie > de l'accbs at la justice rclam~e
par le CNA pour valuer de faqon critique les exemples de technologies particulikres
utilis~es ou propos~es pour r~pondre at la crise de l'accbs at la justice au Canada. Ce
faisant, ils illustrent l'importance d'examiner de faqon consciente les livrables et les
bn~ficiaires pour classer par ordre de priorit les technologies a d~ployer, pour
dterminer comment la technologie devrait tre d~ploye et pour valuer le potentiel
d'une technologie de faciliter l'accbs a la justice. Les auteurs soutiennent que des
comptes rendus nuances des rapports entre les livrables en mati re de justice, les
mcanismes de livraison technologiques et les bn~ficiaires pr~vus sont essentiels pour
laborer de bons mcanismes dcisionnels en ce qui concerne l'accbs a la justice et la
technologie.
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section). Thanks to Vanessa Beaton and Aleksandra Baic for their
research support. All three of the authors wish to acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for
funding Towards Cyberjustice: Rethinking Processual Law, an MCRI headed by Karim Benyekhlef at the Universite de
Montreal, of which this article forms a part.
Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario.
Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia. Thanks also to Jayde Wood and Natasha Wood for
their research support.
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