NISHNAWBE-ASKI LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
$400,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Department of Justice Canada
- Program
- Indigenous Justice Program
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2022-2023
- Agreement period
- November 4, 2022 – March 31, 2024
- Reference
- jus:119-2022-2023-Q3-00044
Published purpose
NALSC will facilitate comprehensive research, engagement, and knowledge sharing with First Nation Leadership, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, Indigenous legal scholars and justice professionals to: 1.Immediately support addressing urgent issues related to reopening of fly-in courts following COVID and the court backlog, 2.Immediately support addressing pre-existing systemic and infrastructure barriers that were highlighted and amplified by the pandemic; and 3.Develop a comprehensive road map of options for strategic and operational changes to improving the delivery of justice in the north of the fly in court system that better reflects a balance between the Canadian criminal justice system and the Indigenous Legal Systems.
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