The Justice Crisis: A New Book about Access to Justice in Canada
Trevor Farrow & Les JacobsWednesday, September 2, 2020
We are thrilled to announce the publication of The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law edited by Trevor C.W. Farrow and Lesley A. Jacobs. This is the first book to provide an in-depth overview, based on new empirical research, of what is working and not working to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.
The Justice Crisis explores the value associated with the provision of an effective justice system and the costs – individual and collective – of not providing accessible justice. The national and international importance of and the need for this kind of research is widely acknowledged.
Contributors to The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law include: Carolyn Carter, Thomas A. Cromwell, Ab Currie, Matthew Dylag, Trevor C.W. Farrow, Heather Heavin, Lesley A. Jacobs, Devon Kapoor, Michaela Keet, Jennifer Koshan, Herbert M. Kritzer, Moktar Lamari, Marylène Leduc, M. Jerry McHale, Lisa Moore, Janet Mosher, Pierre Noreau, Mitchell Perlmutter, Catherine Piché, Noel Semple, Lorne Sossin, Michael Trebilcock, Wanda Wiegers and David Wiseman.
The book’s foreword is written by The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell, CC.
The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law is part of the CFCJ’s Cost of Justice project. The Cost of Justice project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law was published by UBC Press and is available here: www.ubcpress.ca/the-justice-crisis.
View the press release for The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law online here: https://news.yorku.ca/2020/09/02/new-evidence-on-the-justice-crisis-making-the-case-for-reform/.
More about The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law:
Announced on 28 September 2021, The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law is one of two books that received an honourable mention for the 2021 national Walter Owen Book Prize [English language]. A jury appointed by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research recommended prize recipients from a list of 27 book nominees: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2021-walter-owen-book-prize-120000020.html.
A virtual event held on February 9, 2021 to celebrate new publications by faculty in York University’s Department of Social Science included The Justice Crisis: The Cost and Value of Accessing Law edited by professors Trevor C.W. Farrow and Lesley A. Jacobs: https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2021/02/03/event-will-celebrate-new-publications-by-faculty-in-york-universitys-department-of-social-science-feb-9/.
Ian Mulgrew, “New data shows the need for legal reform in Canada”, Vancouver Sun (8 September 2020) online: <https://vancouversun.com/opinion/data-show-legal-reform-needed>.
Aidan Macnab, “Increasing Access to justice requires ‘culture shift’ not just lower lawyer fees: new book”, Law Times (3 September 2020) online: <https://www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/legal-technology/increasing-access-to-justice-requires-culture-shift-not-just-lower-lawyer-fees-new-book/332973>.
Trevor Farrow and Lesley Jacobs, “Thursday Thinkpiece: The Justice Crisis–The Cost and Value of Accessing Law”, Slaw (2 September 2020) online: <http://www.slaw.ca/2020/09/03/thursday-thinkpiece-the-justice-crisis-the-cost-and-value-of-accessing-law/>.
Special Edition CFCJ Newsletter: The Justice Crisis (1 September 2020) online: <https://mailchi.mp/493fd13dce01/special-edition-cfcj-newsletter-the-justice-crisis>.