Praxis Forum is a Dispute Resolution Clinic dedicated to promoting better access to justice for all Canadians, by providing fair, effective and affordable services at the community level. The Clinic makes special provisions intended to service the needs of underserved communities and those members of the population at greater risk of experiencing injustice and oppression.
The Dispute Resolution Clinic achieves its mission through its unique offering of dispute prevention and resolution services, such as mediation and arbitration, designed to meet the needs of communities and workplaces operating under federal or provincial jurisdictions. The Clinic also offers legal literacy, legal inclusion and legal empowerment activities through its enriching events, lectures and experiential workshops that encourage new perspectives on better access to justice for populations at greater risk of being the next victims of injustice and oppression.
Disputes of any kind can have devastating consequences on the health, wellbeing and socio-economic stability and viability of the individuals and family members involved in such predicaments. Thus, early intervention and prevention of high risk conflicts and disputes, and their escalation, is at the very heart of our strategies, plans and customized service protocols, which focus on managing variances, but also purpose in helping our clients identify and interrupt negative patterns, and trigger healing, recovery and balance.
Besides ensuring the fairness, effectiveness and affordability of our dispute resolution processes, our goal is to deliver caring, compassionate and comprehensive services to all our distinguished clients. Our hybrid protocols place much emphasis on the unique needs and expectations of a diversity of peoples, for whom the experience of resolution may well include components that go far beyond the monetary aspects of a negotiated settlement or an adjudicated determination.