Publications
News Releases
York University. International report explores community legal services for better access to justice (April 21, 2023).
York University. York professor co-authors international report on costs, benefits of community-based justice (April 21, 2023).
Project Launch News Release: International research project seeks to scale access to community-based justice (September 17, 2018)
Reports & Blogs
Trevor C.W. Farrow & Ab Currie (2023). Exploring Community-Based Services, Costs and Benefits for People-Centered Justice. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (February 2023). Community Justice Services: Models from Around the World. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Community-Based Justice Initiatives – Infographic. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (13 December 2022). Dollars and ‘Sense’: Accessibility and Affordability in Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Winnie Martins, Carol Friedman, Sophia Mukorera (2022). Comparative Findings and Analysis across Community Advice Offices. Centre for Community Justice & Development.
Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, and Lisa Moore (29 July 2022). Advancing People-Centered Justice: New Research on Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Katiba Institute and the University of Nairobi, Alternative Approaches to Access to Justice in Kenya: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (IDRC, November 2021).
Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, and Lisa Moore (31 May 2022). Exploring Community-Based Solutions to Global Access to Justice Problems. Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
Ab Currie (26 May 2022). Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Ab Currie (March 2022). The Communities Being Served are the Resources that are Needed – Innovations in Community-Based Justice in Ontario, An Anthology of Canadian Research. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Felix Marco Conteh, Yakama Manty Jones, Sonkita Conteh, Henry Mbawa and Aisha Fofana Ibrahi (January 2022). The Costs and Benefits of Community-based Justice in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone: Center for Alternative Policy Research & Innovation.
Philippe Thompson and Lisa Moore (September 2021). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community Legal Clinics and Pro Bono Legal Services in Ontario. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Ab Currie (February 2021). The Needs of Helping Organizations in the Community. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim, Felix Marco Conteh, Henry Mbawa, Sonkita Conteh, and Yakama Manty Jones (16 October 2020). Costly justice: Why communities in Sierra Leone turn to paralegals instead of Local Courts to resolve their justice problems. Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
Felix Marco Conteh, Sonkita Conteh, Lyttleton Braima, Aisha Fofona Ibrahim, Henry Mbawa and Yakama Manty Jones (23 September 2020). Paralegals, community agency and access to justice in Sierra Leone. Namati.
Ab Currie (August 2020). The Community Being Helped Is the Resource That is Needed. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Ab Currie (26 November 2018). Ten Ideas for Community-Based Justice. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (4 October 2018). Building a Business Case for Investing in Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Canada - Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
CFCJ Special Edition Community-Based Justice Research Newsletter (2023).
Trevor C.W. Farrow & Ab Currie (2023). Exploring Community-Based Services, Costs and Benefits for People-Centered Justice. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (February 2023). Community Justice Services: Models from Around the World. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Community-Based Justice Initiatives – Infographic. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (13 December 2022). Dollars and ‘Sense’: Accessibility and Affordability in Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, and Lisa Moore (29 July 2022). Advancing People-Centered Justice: New Research on Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Trevor C.W. Farrow, Ab Currie, and Lisa Moore (31 May 2022). Exploring Community-Based Solutions to Global Access to Justice Problems. Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Ab Currie (26 May 2022). Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
Ab Currie (March 2022). The Communities Being Served are the Resources that are Needed – Innovations in Community-Based Justice in Ontario, An Anthology of Canadian Research. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Philippe Thompson and Lisa Moore (September 2021). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community Legal Clinics and Pro Bono Legal Services in Ontario. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Ab Currie (February 2021). The Needs of Helping Organizations in the Community. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Ab Currie (August 2020). The Community Being Helped Is the Resource That is Needed. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Ab Currie (26 November 2018). Ten Ideas for Community-Based Justice. Canadian Forum on Civil Justice.
Lisa Moore (4 October 2018). Building a Business Case for Investing in Community-Based Justice. Slaw.
South Africa - Center for Community Justice & Development (CCJD)
Sophia Mukorera & Winnie Martins, Executive Summary: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61135/IDL-61135.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Sophia Mukorera & Winnie Martins, Community-Based Participatory Research Methodology: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61136/IDL-61136.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Winnie Martins, Sophia Mukorera & Alwin Mabuza, Profiles of CAOs in the Study: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61137/IDL-61137.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Sophia Mukorera & Winnie Martins, Structural and Financing Models in the CAO Sector: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61138/IDL-61138.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Sophia Mukorera & Winnie Martins, Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Services Offered by CAOs: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61139/IDL-61139.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Sophia Mukorera & Winnie Martins, Assessment of Case Management Strategies and CAO/CBP Functionality in Justice Service Delivery: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61140/IDL-61140.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Carol Friedman, African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the CAO Sector in SA: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61141/IDL-61141.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Winnie Martins & Sophia Mukorera, Recognition, Regulation and Institutionalisation of the CAO Sector in SA: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61133/Brief%208%20Recognition%20and%20Regulation%20FINAL%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Winnie Martins & Sophia Mukorera, The Role of Network Governance in the CAO Sector in SA: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61132/Brief%209_Network%20governance%20final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Winnie Martins, Carol Friedman & Sophia Mukorera: Comparative Findings and Analysis across Community Advice Offices: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61127/Brief%2010%20Comparative%20FINAL.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Martins, Winnie; Friedman, Carol; Mukorera, Sophia (2022) Comparative Findings and Analysis across Community Advice Offices Centre for Community Justice & Development (CCJD)
Ruffin F., Martins W. and Mukorera S. (2018, August 30) Institutionalising the South African Community-Advice Office Sector: Is it Worth It? Centre for Community Justice & Development (CCJD), Open Society Justice Initiative.
Kenya - Katiba Institute
Katiba Institute and the University of Nairobi, Alternative Approaches to Access to Justice in Kenya: A Cost-Benefit Analysis (IDRC, November 2021).
Sierra Leone - Centre for Alternative Policy Research and Innovation (CAPRI)
Felix Marco Conteh, Yakama Manty Jones, Sonkita Conteh, Henry Mbawa and Aisha Fofana Ibrahim, The Costs and Benefits of Community-based Justice in Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone: Center for Alternative Policy Research & Innovation, January 2022).
Fofana A.I., Conteh F.M., Mbawa H., Conteh S., and Manty Jones Y., « Costly justice: Why communities in Sierra Leone turn to paralegals instead of Local Courts to resolve their justice problems » (New York: Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, 16 October 2020).
Conteh F.M., Conteh S., Braima L., Ibrahim A.F., Mbawa H. and Manty Jones Y., « Paralegals, community agency and access to justice in Sierra Leone » (Sierra Leone: Namati, September 2020).
Technical Reports
(CFCJ – Canada) Supporting and Synthesizing Community-Based Justice Research: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61659/IL%20-%2061659.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
(CAPRI – Sierra Leone) Final Technical Report for the Project Scaling Access to Justice Research Collaboration: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/60828/IDL-60828.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
(CCJD – South Africa) Scaling Access to Justice Research Collaboration: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61134/CCJD%20Revised%20Technical%20report.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
(Katiba Institute, University of Nairobi’s Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi’s School of Law – Kenya) Scaling Access to Justice Research Collaboration: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61936/IDL%20-%2061936.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y