ACLRC website is a great resource for A2J Week

​Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (ACLRC) is deeply committed to furthering access to justice for all. Our Access to Justice Tab on our website (aclrc.com) features summaries of current research on various vulnerable groups and access to justice. It also provides annotated resource lists. Topics include:

​​What is Access to Justice?

• Access to Justice and Aboriginal Communities: Truth and Reconciliation 
• Access to the Civil Litigation System
• Access to Justice and Canadian Elders
• Access to Government Information
• Access to Justice and Homelessness
• Access to Justice and New Canadians
• Access to Justice and the Police
• Access to Justice as a Right?
• Access to Justice and Youth
• Access to Justice and Persons with Disabilities
• Advancing Access to Charter Litigation
• Dissent, Disobedience and Justice
• Reflections on Restorative Justice
• Access to Justice and Rural Communities
• Coming Soon: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Justice

Our Enforcing Your Rights Tab includes information on legal processes related to civil liberties and human rights issues:

• Know Your Charter Rights: Making a Charter Claim
• Launching a Charter Case

• Human Rights in Alberta
• Making a Human Rights Complaint
• Judicial Review and Human Rights
• Access to Information
• Using Dissent to Access Justice
• Finding a Lawyer and Rowbotham Applications
• Challenging Your Lawyer’s Bill
• Police Complaints
• Disclosure of Non-Conviction Records
• Additional Resources

In addition, we have several reports dedicated to access to justice issues, such as:

• Collection, Storage, and Disclosure of Personal Information by Police: Recommendations for National Standards
• Representing Mentally Disabled Persons in the Criminal Justice System—Second Edition
• Prisoners’ Rights in Alberta
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Adult Criminal Justice System
• Charter Implications of Bylaw Enforcement on People with Low Incomes in Alberta

Contact Information : 
Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Room 2350 Murray Fraser Hall
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
p: 403.220.2505
f: 403.284.0945
e: [email protected]
W: aclrc.com