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Response

by Lianne Chang -
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My goals for this class include learning how alternative dispute resolution is used in other jurisdictions to help solve human rights issues. In Nova Scotia the Human Rights Commission is the gate keeper in enforcing the Human Rights Act. On a global scale, human rights violations in Nova Scotia which are dealt with by the Commission may not appear to be of the same extent as violations in other countries. In context they touch many persons who suffer discrimination at the whims of those who are not concerned in the least with the rights given to others within the parametres of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. I am a conflict resolution practitioner who stumbled onto ADR in the human rights field in Nova Scotia. Prior to this I worked in the Criminal Justice System where I quickly realised that the system did nothing for those who found themselves in Court and many were re-victimised by it. I soon became involved with Restorative Justice and from there got into the field of ADR in every area of law that I practiced. I hope to learn even more from this course as we can never know too much in the field in which we practise. Lianne
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by Dyanne Marenco -

Hello Lianne. Thats great, for example in my country Costa Rica we have a special law for Alternative Dispute Resolution (Law 7727) since 1998 and  we apply that law in court and out of them, in differents areas: family law, labor law, comercial law, civil law, in criminal law and others.

 

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by Lianne Chang -

Hey Dyanne.  I totally get that.  I am from Trinidad and Tobago now living in Canada.  In TT we had just begun using ADR in a minority of Court matters - definitely in family cases, but not so much in criminal law. There it was really left up to the individual adjudicators (how much or how little depending on their knowledge of restorative justice) to incorporate restorative approaches into their adjudication.  Good to know what happens in other countries though :)