Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board

Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board

Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board

The Ontario justice system is attempting to open doors to its citizens seeking access to certain courts and tribunals. Tribunals are like courts, except they make decisions in specific matters, such as worker’s compensation and landlord and tenant disputes.

In 2005, the Access to Justice Act was introduced in the Ontario legislature and passed into law in 2006. Among other things, this bill created a professional designation and recognition of non-lawyers in Ontario's justice system.

Since the 1980’s, non-lawyers attempted to break the barriers of affordability for clients in a wide range of minor matters, such as traffic court and uncontested divorce. The Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario’s regulator for lawyers, was unhappy with this practice and consistently tried to stop it.