ODR as a Public Service: The Access to Justice-Driven Canadian Experience

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Canadian courts and tribunals are successfully incorporating online dispute resolu‐ tion (ODR) mechanisms into their processes in order to offer user-centric dispute resolution systems aimed at increasing access to justice. Although they use different approaches, three such examples, British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal, Ontario’s Condominium Authority Tribunal, and Quebec’s PARLe-OPC platform, have all demonstrated how public ODR can increase litigants’ sense of justice while respecting basic legal tenets. This article serves as a short introduction to this user- centric Canadian approach.

This content has been updated on 1 August 2024 at 12 h 04 min.