Law Reform Commissions

If you want to make changes in the legal industry, these commissions are a good place to start. Generally, they work on an ongoing basis, so you can contact them with your insights and ideas for law reform at any time. You should do so in writing.

You should also copy your Member of Parliament or even all of them. You can do from our web site. You should also copy your provincial Member as well if yours is a provincial matter.

We have not been able to locate web sites for these organizations. If you know of any, please let us know.

• Federation of Law Reform Agencies of Canada
  Federation des organismes de reforme du droit du Canada
  Schnoor, Jeffrey A., Q.C. - Manitoba Law Reform Commission
  405 Broadway, 12th Fl., Winnipeg, MB R3C 3L6
  EMail/Messagerie Internet:
  Tel: (604) -822-0142
  Fax: (604) 822-0144

• British Columbia Law Institute
  The broad purposes of the Institute are to:
  • promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its adaptation to modern social needs,
  • promote improvement of the administration of justice and respect for the rule of law, and
  • promote and carry out scholarly legal research.

  Marcus Patz E-mail
  1822 East Mall, University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
  Tel: (604) 822-0142
  Fax: (604) 822-0144

• Alberta Law Reform Institute
  
  The purpose of the Institute is:
  • Research: To conduct and direct research into law and the administration of justice.
  • Recommend: To consider matters of law reform with a view to proposing to the appropriate authority the means by which the law may be made more useful and effective.
  • Promote: To promote law research and reform.

  Lown, Peter J.M., Q.C. - Dir., Alberta Law Reform Institute
  University of Alberta, 402 Law Centre, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H5
  Tel: (403) 492-5291
  Fax: (403) 492-1790

• Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
  The Law Reform Commission reviews all the law of Saskatchewan in order to systematically develop and reform the law, and to generally simplify and modernize it as well. Research for particular projects of the Commission are conducted, and the matter is placed before the Commission for discussion and consideration. Recommendations are then embodied in a final report to the Minister of Justice.

  Finley, Michael J. - College of Law
  University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N OW0
  Tel: (306) 966-4002
  Fax: (306) 966-5900

• Manitoba Law Reform Commission
  There does not appear to be a web site for this Commission. Jeffrey A. Schnoor, Q.C. - Manitoba Law Reform Commission
  4O5 Broadway, 12th Fl., Winnipeg, MB R3C 3L6
  EMail/Messagerie Internet:
  Tel: (204) 945-2900
  Fax: (204) 948-2184

• Ontario Law Reform Commission The Commission was sunset in December 1996. It recommended reform in statute law, common law, jurisprudence, judicial and quasi-judicial procedures, and in issues dealing with the administration of justice in Ontario
  There have been new Commissions since, esp the Criminal Justice Review Commission.

  John D. McCamus,
  720 Bay St, 11th Fl., Toronto, ON M5G 2K1
  Tel: (416) 326-4200
  Fax: (416) 326-4693

• Direction de la refonte des lois et des reglements
  Serge Massicotte, - Directeur de la section
  1200, route de l'Eglise, 2e Etage, Sainte-Foy, QC G1V 4M1
  Tel: (418) 643-1427
  Fax: (418) 643-9749

• Prince Edward Island
  Moore, M. Raymond - Legislative Counsel
  180 Richmond St., Box 1628, Charlottetown, PE C1A 7N8
  Tel: (902) 368-4291
  Fax: (902) 368-4382

• Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia
  John E.S. Briggs
  Executive Director
  1484 Carlton St., 12th Fl., Halifax, NS B3H 3B7
  Tel: (902) 423-2633
  Fax: (902) 423-0222