Are your students interested in a career in law? This webinar will cover what paralegals and law clerks do, recent changes in paralegals’ scope of practice and the training required to enter this exciting profession. Date and time: Monday, August 23, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Speakers: Linda Pasternak, B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., J.D, Paralegal Program Coordinator/Professor, […]
Nat Paul, Director of Educator Support, will walk us through running a Steps to Justice online housing workshop. OJEN’s Steps to Justice workshops introduce audiences to common legal problems and familiarize them with a specific area of law. Using hypothetical scenarios, workshop participants explore a legal topic by navigating the practical step-by-step information on CLEO’s Steps to Justice website. They […]
Justice For Children and Youth (JFCY) legal clinic’s Childhood Arrivals Support & Advocacy (CASA) program will be providing a webinar on being aware and inclusive of students with precarious or no immigration status. Young people brought to Canada as children and are living without immigration status can face significant uncertainty in their lives. In this […]
This session is presented as part of the DemocracyXChange Festival (https://democracyxchange.org/). The Ontario Justice Education Network (www.ojen.ca) runs public legal education programs for youth and supports teachers in bringing law into their classrooms, especially in Law and Civics courses. OJEN created the Access to Justice simulation game as a tool for introducing students to the […]
In September 2022, after an already gargantuan fight to get their case to be heard by the province’s court, the seven young Ontarians at the centre of the Mathur case will finally head to Ontario’s Superior Court. This webinar is a follow-up to our 2020 webinar, which introduced the Mathur et. al case. The team […]
Event Summary: The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session for secondary school teachers that provides information about Teaching Law: As an Act of Truth Seeking and Reconciliation and Their Voices Will Guide Us. This webinar features Charlene Bearhead, educator and Indigenous education advocate. The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free […]
Many areas of law intersect with and impact a young person’s access to, and pathway through, our education systems. In this session Justice for Children and Youth, Ontario’s specialty child rights legal clinic, will explore three such intersections – immigration law for young people with no or precarious immigration status, special education systems and their […]
Event Summary: The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session for secondary school teachers on ‘The Top 5 Cases’ of the past year. This webinar features The Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto. The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session featuring The […]
The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session for secondary school teachers on ‘The Top 5 Cases’ of the past year. This webinar features Professor Sonia Lawrence from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session featuring Professor Sonia Lawrence from Osgoode Hall Law School in […]
The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online session featuring the Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin of the Ontario Court of Appeal. Each year at our annual Summer Law Institute, a leading Ontario academic or jurist presents five Canadian legal decisions from the previous year that they feel are of the greatest importance and […]
