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What is ACE?
The Access to Justice Centre for Excellence (ACE) is an academic research institute located at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. ACE is focused on applied research that seeks practical resolutions to improve access to justice in Canada.
Mission
To support, promote and facilitate scholarly research and education on Access to Justice in Canada.
Vision
A Canada in which there is access to justice for all.
News and Events
BC ACE Research Fellow published in “The advocate”
In her new article, Electronic Trial and Change in British Columbia's Justice System, (July 2023) 81:4 The Advocate 481 at 509, ACE Research Fellow Kate Gower examines electronic trial processes and the experience of change in British Columbia's justice system.
Person Centred Justice
ACE Associate Andrew Pilliar (TRU Law) and ACE Director Michelle Lawrence (UVic Law) hosted a workshop in Toronto on May 29, 2023, as part of the Canadian Law & Society annual conference. They were joined by scholars and practitioners from across Canada and around the world for an exchange of ideas about what ‘person-centred justice’ means, and what it might mean to reimagine and reform a justice system based on this concept.
Research presented at this workshop will be published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law & Society, which Pilliar and Lawrence are guest-editing. That special issue is scheduled for release in the fall of 2024.
BC ACE Director Cited by the Supreme Court of Canada
