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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.
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.
Improving the Last Stages of Life
The Improving the 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 Lawyers Daily: Anonymity, jurisdiction, ‘unpublishing’ are frontline defamation issues, panel says
Read the latest article on the Defamation Law in the Internet Age Conference here. For more information on our Defamation Law in the Internet Age project, and to read more about the Conference, please click [...]
The Lawyers Daily: Law Commission of Ontario names board members
Read the latest article on the LCO and the appointment of three at-large board members: Linda Cardinal (effective June 1, 2018), Elizabeth Grace (effective June 1, 2018), and Michael Tamblyn (effective September 1, 2018).
Class Actions Consultation Period Closes
The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) is pleased to announce that the Commission has received more than 20 public submissions in response to its Class Actions: Objectives, Experiences and Reforms consultation paper. The submissions are [...]
LCO Publishes Ontario Law Students’ Defamation Conference Blogs
With the assistance of a SSHRC Connections Grant, the Law Commission of Ontario funded two students from each of Ontario's law schools to attend our conference: Defamation Law and the Internet: Where Do We Go [...]