Our Committee supports Canada’s courts in their modernization efforts. It provides guidance for addressing challenges, and highlights opportunities and innovative practices to modernize court operations and improve access to justice for court users.
The Action Committee is co-chaired by the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable Arif Virani. The Committee is supported by an Indigenous Advisory Group to enrich the Action Committee’s work by ensuring that Indigenous perspectives are accurately reflected, and by a Technical Working Group to ensure that national perspectives are reflected.
The Action Committee – Who We Are and What We Do
- Terms of Reference – Action Committee
- Terms of Reference – Indigenous Advisory Group
- Terms of Reference – Technical Working Group
- Progress Report: 2023-2024
- Past Progress Reports
- Contact the Action Committee
- Sign Up for Action Committee Newsletters
Access to Justice for Court Users
User-Centred Justice
- Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
- Understanding User-Centred Justice
- Gathering-User-Perspectives
- User-Centred Justice: Some Canadian Examples
- Designing user-centred court websites
Indigenous People in Canadian Courts
- Restoring Court Operations in Northern, Remote and Indigenous Communities
- Role of Indigenous Courtworkers
- Working with Indigenous Courtworkers
- Indigenous Practices in the Courts
Marginalized and Diverse Populations
- Impact of the Pandemic on Access to Justice for Marginalized Individuals
- Impact of the Pandemic on Interpretation and Translation Needs of Court Users
- Impact of the Pandemic on Access to Specialized Court Programs
- Case Study: Impact of the Pandemic on the Nova Scotia Wellness Courts
- Applying the Canadian Judicial Council’s Statement of Principles on Self-Represented Litigants and Accused Persons in a Pandemic
Virtual Hearings, Open Courts and Technology
Virtual Hearings
- Virtual Hearings and Services: Tools and Resources for Court Users and Personnel
- Virtual Hearings: Orienting Principles
- Virtual Hearings: Operational Considerations – Benefits and Challenges
- Virtual Hearings: Checklist of Considerations
- Virtual Hearings: Areas For Further Study
- Virtual and Hybrid Hearings in Family Matters: Promoting the Best Interests of the Child
- Virtual Bail: Implementation Roadmap
Virtual Access / Open Courts
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Considerations
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Options and Implementation Scenarios
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Challenges and Solutions in Trial Courts
- Upholding Open Courts in a Pandemic: Federal Court Case Study
Technology in the Courts
Reducing Backlog and Delays
- Orienting Principles: Leading and Managing Change in the Courts
- Roadmap To Recovery: Orienting Principles for Reducing Court Backlog and Delays
- Minimizing Court Backlogs and Delays: Repository of Promising Practices
- Improving Access and Reducing Delays in Family and Child Protection Matters: Manitoba Case Study
- Emergency-Planning-and-Response-in-the-Courts
Mental Health and Wellness in the Courts
- Communiqué on Mental Health and Wellness
- Inventory of Mental Health and Wellness Resources
- Best Practices: Promoting Mental Health and Wellness in Courts
Optimizing Jury Processes
- Phases and Steps of a Criminal Jury Trial
- Streamlining Processes: Jury Summons and Selection – New Brunswick Case Study
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