Francophonie, Justice in Official Languages and Legal Dualism

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Highlights

International Francophonie

• The 13^th Summit of La Francophonie, organized by the International Organisation of La Francophonie was held on October 22 to 24, 2010, in Montreux, Switzerland. For more information

Justice in Official Languages

We invite you to read the newsletter "Justice in Official Languages"

A few examples of projects funded by the Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund:

Access

• Justice pour tous: 25 radio spots contributing to the education and information on various aspects of the legal system for the Acadian and French community of Nova Scotia (Association des juristes d’expression française de la Nouvelle-Écosse)

Services

• Educaloi: develop, adapt and distribute public legal information to the Quebec Anglophone community (Educaloi)
  
• Portal of legal and jurilinguistic tools: develop an Internet portal that will gather all legal and jurilinguistic tools in Canada (Centre for translation and legal documentation, University of Ottawa)

Communities

• Justice-Ados!: criminal law debates and moot courts in French schools (Association des juristes d’expression française de la Saskatchewan)
  
• Concentration in justice: academic program with a legal theme offered to students from grades 10 to 12 (Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario)
  
• Justice Camp for Francophone Youth: two-day justice camp for Newfoundland and Labrador Francophone Youth (Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland)
  
• Théâtre Action: presentation of legal information sessions by elders to young people in French schools in Alberta (Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Alberta)

Training

• Terminology course in criminal matters: a online theoretical learning module, moot courts and activities to raise awareness to linguistic rights related to criminal law (Association des juristes d’expression française de la Colombie-Britannique)
  
• Centre canadien de français juridique: training and advanced professional training for law clerks, probation officers and Crown Attorneys (Centre canadien de français juridique)
  
• Pre-law program: pre-law program intended for immigrant students registered in the French Common Law Program who have never studied in Canada (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa)
  
• Justice Training: courses on legal French to lawyers and other people working in support functions in the field of justice in Atlantic Canada (Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques, Université de Moncton)

Legal Dualism

The Legal Dualism website has a new look. It now features several new browsing functionalities that streamline consultation of its contents. Here is what you can find on the website:

The Legal Dictionary of Property in Canada (LDPC)

• The bisystemic and bilingual Legal Dictionary of Property in Canada offers over 300 articles describing the vocabulary of property for Canada's civil and common law systems.

LDPC: Additional studies

• Digest of definitions cited by the Supreme Court of Canada: Comprised of some 500 definitions cited by the Supreme Court of Canada over the last 30 years, this supplement includes over 300 frequently-used words in several fields of law.
• LDPC Corpus: The search engine now allows you to explore the textual database of court decisions from which the excerpts cited in the LDPC articles are drawn. This corpus consists of over 400 decisions, with each decision displayed in a bilingually-aligned format.

And …

• Translation of monolingual excerpts cited in the LDPC: Translated especially for the LDPC, these 124 excerpts drawn from 73 judgments rendered by various Canadian and foreign jurisdictions, can now be consulted using the LDPC headword index.
• Publications and presentations: All publications and presentations offered by the Legal Dualism Team are grouped – and available for consultation – under a new section of the website.

In the works

• Etymological studies of key concepts in property law (Part I): This series of 21 studies focuses on the origin of the current meaning of some 30 words used in contemporary English and French. These studies offer a historic portrait of key concepts in property law in Canada and highlight how these words are used in civil law and common law.