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.
This project examines the development, deployment, regulation and impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making (ADM) and algorithms on access to justice, human rights, and due process.
This project is the first legal and policy reform project in Canada to review how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts each stage in a criminal justice matter.
The LCO’s Improving Protection Orders project is examining why protection orders are failing to prevent intimate partner violence and family violence in Ontario.
This project examines how a civil legal framework could address the creation, alteration, and distribution of intimate images without consent.
This project explores the growing use of digital monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace, and their implications for areas which may include privacy and human rights, employment and labour law, platform workers, and AI governance.
Environmental Accountability – Indigenous Engagement
This project began in the fall of 2024. Please check back for more details.
Law360: LCO Releases Surveys to Improve Protection Orders
Law360 interviewed the LCO’s Laura Snowdon about the two surveys we launched to improve protection orders for intimate partner violence and family violence in Ontario. Laura highlighted concerns about the difficulty in obtaining these orders [...]
Improving Protection Order Surveys Launched!
We need your help to improve protection orders for intimate partner violence and family violence. If you have personal or professional experience with restraining orders, peace bonds, bail release orders or other protection orders in [...]
Law Times: LCO Releases Backgrounder on HRIA
Read the latest article on the Law Times about the publication of the Backgrounder that the LCO released on March 3rd to provide context on the LCO/Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) AI Human Rights Impact [...]
