Proposals

Guidelines for Making a Project Proposal

LCO INVITES NEW PROJECT PROPOSALS 

The LCO is inviting legal and community organizations to submit project proposals. 

Proposals can be made at any time. 

Simply describe the project you think the LCO should undertake, why the issue you have raised is a problem for access to justice and why the LCO is the right organization to undertake it. 

Your proposal must be about provincial law and must be consistent with the LCO’s mandate to make recommendations

  1. To make the legal system more relevant, accessible and efficient;
  2. To simplify or clarify the law; and
  3. To use technology to increase access to justice. 

Your proposal does not need to “fit into” all aspects of this mandate, but it must fit into at least one of them.

Your proposal can be about a narrow legal issue or a broad social issue. 

Questions to help decide whether your project is appropriate for the LCO and to help develop your proposal can be found at: http://www.lco-cdo.org/en/howtomakeaproposal.html or contact Janice Williams at lawcommision@lco-cdo.org. 

Note that the LCO is already looking or will look at the following issues:

  • whether the charging of fees for cashing government cheques should be regulated;
  • how and when to divide pensions on marital breakdown;
  • criteria for developing the law affecting older adults;
  • criteria for developing the law affecting persons with disabilities (to begin in the fall);
  • ways to improve the capacity of the judicial system to address cross-border litigation; and
  • family law, the area or areas to be chosen following a Roundtable in September and further consultation. 

We have also already received proposals on the following issues (these may or may not be adopted as LCO projects, but you do not need to resubmit proposals or submit new proposals in these areas):

  • Projects listed in the Sossin Report (available in English only);
  • Wrongful dismissal;
  • Precarious work and vulnerable workers;
  • Jurisdiction of the Divisional Court;
  • Public inquiries;
  • Access to services for persons without immigration status;
  • Use of technology to provide greater access to evidence and court files