Our Committee exists to support Canada’s courts as they work to protect the health and safety of all court users in the COVID-19 context while supporting access to justice and upholding the fundamental values of our justice system. These mutually sustaining commitments guide all of our efforts. As part of its mandate, the Committee encourages learning from pandemic-related innovation.
The Action Committee – Who We Are and What We Do
- Message From the Action Committee
- Terms of Reference
- Core Principles and Perspectives
- Progress Report 2020-2021
- Progress Report 2021-2022
- Contact Us
Reducing Backlog and Delays
- Orienting Principles : Leading and Managing Change in the Courts
- Roadmap To Recovery: Orienting Principles for Reducing Court Backlog and Delays
- Minimizing Court Backlogs and Delays: Repository of Promising Practices
- Improving Access and Reducing Delays in Family and Child Protection Matters: Manitoba Case Study
Open Courts and Virtual Hearings
- Virtual Hearings and Services: Tools and Resources for Court Users and Personnel
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Considerations
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Options and Implementation Scenarios
- Virtual Access to Hearings: Challenges and Solutions in Trial Courts
- Virtual Hearings: Orienting Principles
- Virtual Hearings: Operational Considerations – Benefits and Challenges
- Virtual Hearings: Checklist of Considerations
- Virtual Hearings: Areas For Further Study
- Virtual Hearing Platforms: Functionalities and Settings for Participants and Observers
- Upholding Open Courts in a Pandemic: Federal Court Case Study
- Virtual Bail: Implementation Roadmap
Access to Justice for Marginalized Individuals
- Impact of the Pandemic on Access to Justice for Marginalized Individuals
- Restoring Court Operations in Northern, Remote and Indigenous Communities
- Impact of the Pandemic on Interpretation and Translation Needs of Court Users
- Impact of the Pandemic on Access to Specialized Court Programs
- Case Study: Impact of the Pandemic on the Nova Scotia Wellness Courts
- Applying the Canadian Judicial Council’s Statement of Principles on Self-Represented Litigants and Accused Persons in a Pandemic
Protecting the Health and Safety of Court Users and Personnel
- Communiqué on Mental Health and Wellness
- Inventory of Mental Health and Wellness Resources
- Message: Keeping Our Court Environments Safe in a Pandemic
- Orienting Principles on Safe and Accessible Courts
- Protecting Court Personnel and Users and Cleaning and Disinfecting
- Court Audit Tool: Small Court Spaces and Alternative Facilities
- Courtroom Symptom Appearance
- Contact Tracing in Court Operations
- COVID-19 Testing for Court Participants
- Impact of Vaccination on Court Operations
- Inviting a Dialogue to Better Protect Court Participants
- Best Practices: Promoting Mental Health and Wellness in Courts
Optimizing Jury Processes
- Phases and Steps of a Criminal Jury Trial
- Jury Summons
- Jury Selection
- Jury Arrival and Departure
- In-Trial Criminal Jury Proceedings
- Sequestering, Deliberation, Release of the Jury
- Streamlining Processes: Jury Summons and Selection – New Brunswick Case Study
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