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• THE DISCUSSION BOARDS!	• Here's a great overview of Section 1	• The Supreme Court of Canada website
• Article about Gutu Daoud, one of the first Ottawa accused unable to get a lawyer.	• Legal Aid Ontario--tons of info here	• Uh...what's a "stay?"
• This article was written by Edward Greenspan, a legal Aid lawyer. It is lawyer’s perspective on the issue of legal aid	• The statute (law) that created the legal aid program can be found here.	• The Ministry of the Attorney General
• This article is a great explanation for what is happening with the Legal Aid lawyers. It covers a lot of information, but keeps the context light enough so that anyone could read the article.	• Law professor Michael Trebilcock’s Report of the Legal Aid Review 2008--historical overview of the program	• The Criminal Lawyers Association
• This article is a personal favourite because it has information from past years	• In Section 6 of the Report, he describes what he considers to be the four “most compelling normative justifications” for legal aid:	• R. v. Askov--an important precedent regarding trials within a "reasonable" time.
• This article explains everything that’s happening with the boycott and also has comments from readers.	• CanLII's "Canadian Charter of Rights Decisions Digest" is a good source of case law on Charter issues!	• The Dugald Christie case
• An excellent page about how to go about conducting legal research	• R. v. Oakes	• Auton case--OJEN also has a good resource document on this on their webpage.
	• Former Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry speaks about access to justice issues	• Beverley McLaughlin's speech--read the part on "access to justice"

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