Access to justice : Accès à la justice : rapport sur certaines initiatives de réforme au Canada

The research was conducted over the summer of 2007 and yielded a collection of 60 reforms, many of which relate to a number of the five identified areas of 1 See Appendix A for the outline of promising practices that were considered by the Subcommittee. [...] The reforms are searchable by a word or phrase from the title of the reform, the province or territory of the reform, the year that the reform was first implemented (or first proposed if it has not yet been implemented), and the subject area(s) that the reform falls under. [...] The intention is to expand the content of the Inventory to capture current practices and recent reforms undertaken in a number of subject areas relating to the civil justice systems in Canada. [...] Early steps must be taken to develop systems and processes that will capture the baseline data required to support meaningful evaluation.7 Scope of the Inventory and a Summary of our Findings The following discussion describes the scope of the five areas of focus in the Inventory. [...] The agreement must cover, among other things, the preliminary exceptions and safeguard measures, the procedure and time limit for the communication of exhibits, written statements in lieu of testimony and detailed affidavits, the number and length of and other conditions relating to examinations on discovery before the filing of the defence, expert appraisals, any planned or foreseeable incidental