A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario

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Type d'entité

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Forme autorisée du nom

A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario

forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom

    Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions

    • A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario

    Autre(s) forme(s) du nom

    • Cory Review

    • A Framework for Regulating Paralegal Practice in Ontario

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    Zone de description

    Dates d’existence

    1999-2000

    Historique

    In November 1999, Attorney General Jim Flaherty appointed Peter Cory, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, to oversee a review of the independent paralegals within Ontario's justice system.

    A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario consulted with representatives from both the legal and paralegal profession, tribunals, boards, community colleges and other stakeholders in an effort to resolve the longstanding conflict between paralegals and lawyers. The root of this conflict lay in differing views concerning the competency of paralegals. The viewpoint of the lawyers was that paralegals were not trained to be lawyers and that they were neither licensed or regulated. Therefore the public was in no way protected from incompetent paralegals. The view of the paralegals was that they provided a much needed service and ensured the efficient and cost effective functioning of many boards, tribunals and courts.

    In June 2000, the Cory Review released a report that recommended that a governing body be established for regulating and licensing paralegals. This independent body, made up of representatives of the Attorney General, the general public, independent paralegals and the Law Society of Upper Canada, would establish uniform standards and supervise the province's 4,200 paralegals. Furthermore, the Review recommended that paralegals be required to complete a two-year program at a community college before they can begin their paralegal practice.

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    Fonctions et activités

    A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario, or the Cory Review, examined the role and offered recommendations concerning the licensing, practice, educational requirements, and the governance of paralegals in Ontario.

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    Entité associée

    Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General (1972-)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA72

    Type de relation

    hiérarchique

    Type de relation

    Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General contrôles A Review of the Regulation of Paralegal Practice in Ontario

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    Description de la relation

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    Mots-clés - Sujets

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    Epithet

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    Identifiant de notice d'autorité

    CA1705

    Identifiant du service d'archives

    Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

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    Approved

    Niveau de détail

    Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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        Sources

        Archives of Ontario, Series RG 18-547

        Notes de maintenance

        Archivist(s):
        Gorton