Zoom on the country's peace courts: follow-up survey on the accessibility and availability of local justice

This is the follow-up to the study the network published on 4 October 2021, which had drawn a bleak picture of the conditions in which the peace courts work. The report recalls what that study found and then reports the follow-up survey under five headings: the judicial staff, the office and rolling equipment, the power and water supply, the security of the courts, and their buildings. It then sets out the offences the peace courts most often handle and the challenges they face, and what their dysfunction costs in practice for the right to judicial guarantees.

The recommendations are for financial, computing and office resources, at least one service vehicle for each peace court, an alternative source of electricity, measures to restore security in the courts, repair of the damaged spaces that put judicial staff at risk, and a sanitary block in every court. Like the 2021 study, it was produced under a project run by Avocats sans frontières Canada and its content is stated to be the network's responsibility alone.