Our Equity & Access Role

One of our regulatory objectives call us to promote diversity, inclusion, substantive equality, and freedom from discrimination in the delivery of legal services and the justice system.

We are obligated to:

• Create a legal profession that reflects the public it
  serves.
• Eliminate racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination from the delivery of legal services.
• Collaborate with other system partners to make the administration of justice more efficient, equitable, and affordable.

These obligations live in our work and inform everything we do.

Through our programming and our decision-making, we work to increase the diversity of the Nova Scotia bar, support lawyers as they seek to be more equitable in their practice and to learn from community voices when they come to us with concerns.

This work originates from and continues to be motivated by, the recommendations from the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr. Prosecution.