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WHO WE ARE
The Law Commission of Ontario is Ontario’s leading law reform agency. The LCO provides independent, balanced and authoritative advice on complex legal policy issues. Our work promotes access to justice and contributes to public debate.
Digital Rights
The influence of technology is pervasive; it is spreading to new areas of the private and public sectors, shaping lives like never before, and raising serious questions about access to justice. From these and other examples the LCO has begun to identify specific areas where there is evident need for sophisticated, thoughtful legal analysis in the Ontario context.
Indigenous Engagement – Last Stages of Life
The LCO is now preparing to establish a distinct engagement process to identify and hear about Indigenous laws and experiences in the last stages of life. This will take place in early 2019. This distinct Indigenous engagement process extends general LSL consultations conducted from June 2017 – May 2018.
Class Actions: Objectives, Experiences and Reforms
The LCO’s class actions project is the first independent, evidence-based, and comprehensive review of class actions in Ontario since the enactment of the Class Proceedings Act in 1993. The project will provide an independent and practical analysis of class actions in Ontario.
Defamation Law in the Internet Age
The LCO’s project is the most comprehensive analysis of Ontario’s defamation law framework to date. The project is examining the underlying purpose and function of defamation law and how defamation law should be updated to account for “internet speech,” including social media, blogs, internet platforms and digital media.
Last Stages of Life
Last Stages of Life project considers how the law shapes the rights, choices, and quality of life for persons who are dying and those who support them.
Past Projects
The Sydney Morning Herald: Ambitious 18-month timetable unveiled for defamation law reform
LCO's Defamation Law in the Internet Age project has been mentioned in The Sydney Morning Herald. To read further click here.
TVO: How Doug Ford could bring street hockey back to small-town Ontario
The LCO's report on Joint and Several Liability Under the Ontario Business Corporations Act, February 2011 was mentioned in the article by TVO. To read further click here.
Medical Assistance in Dying – The Council of Canadian Academies
The Council of Canadian Academies has published three reports by the Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying. The Law Commission of Ontario interim and final report for Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship have been [...]
Former Board Member Lorne Sossin Appointed to Ontario Superior Court of Justice
The Law Commission of Ontario would like to congratulate Lorne Sossin on his appointment to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. To read further on Lorne's appointment click here.