The Cost of Experiencing Everyday Legal Problems

The Cost of Experiencing Everyday Legal Problems RELATED TO LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT AND LOSS OF HOUSING THE COST OF JUSTICE 1 2017 CanLIIDocs 361 © 2017 CANADIAN FORUM ON CIVIL JUSTICE, TORONTO, CANADA THE CANADIAN FORUM ON CIVIL JUSTICE is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to civil justice reform and access to justice research and advocacy. [...] Overview of the Cost of Justice Project The Cost of Justice project (2011-2018) examines the social and economic costs of Canada’s justice system. [...] Comprised of leading access to justice researchers investigating various dimensions of cost across the country, the Cost of Justice project is producing empirical data that will inform the future of access to justice in Canada and abroad. [...] Overview of the Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice The data from this report was drawn from a nationwide survey with over 3,000 respondents conducted in 2014 as part of the “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” study. [...] Further, as data from the Cost of Justice government-mandated Employment Insurance (EI) program survey confirms, job loss is also often triggered by other types while they are employed may be eligible to access payments of legal problems or is the result of issues tied to multiple legal from the program in the event of job loss or time off from problems, whether or not those problems are work-rela