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Grantee Name Years
Funded
Amount
Funded
Acadia University Institute
(International Human Rights Law Conference)
1 $10,070
Alternative Dispute Resolution
(Pilot Project)
1 $6,000
Association of Canadian Law Foundations
(Study of Court House Library Funding)
1 $4,272
Atlantic Institute of Criminology
(Study of Policing Methods)
(Study of Sentencing Patterns in N.S. Courts)

3
1

$45,000
$4,000
Cape Breton Transition House
(Public Education on Family Violence)
1 $22,951
Canadian Bar Association
(Law For the Future Fund)
(Tort Liability and Compensation
Issues in Canada)
1
1
$37,500
$8,000
Canadian Bar Association, N.S. Branch
(Dial-a-Law core funding)
(Law Day)

5
4

$184,964
$14,000
Canadian Bar Foundation
(Canadian Bar Review)
5 $17,568
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
(Civil Justice Clearing House-Nova Scotia)
1 $15,180
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
(Student Bursaries - Summer Course
on Human Rights)
5 $6,250
Canadian Institute for the
Administration of Justice

(Core Funding)
(Environmental Law Conference-Halifax)


4
1


$16,000
$10,000
Canadian Journal of Women & the Law
(Publication of the Journal)
2 $1,200
Canadian Law Teaching Clinic
(Core Funding)
3 $6,000
Canadian Legal Information Centre
(Core Funding)
5 $78,950
Canadian Mental Health Association
(Publication & Reprinting of Booklet)
2 $9,000
The Carswell Company
(Traite de droit administraif)
1 $500
Christian Council for Reconciliation-Prison Ministry
(St. Luke's Renewal Centre-A Pioneering Model For the Reintegration of the Law Term Offender Into the Community)
2 $129,000
College of Continuing Education Public Sector Programs
(Project Funding)
4 $17,065
Community Planning Association of Canada/Nova Scotia
(A Citizens' Guide to the Municipal Board)
1 $3,830
Continuing Legal Education Society of Nova Scotia
(Core Funding)
(Purchase of Computer Equipment for Bar Admissions Course)

11
1

$334,092
$87,125
Community Justice Society
(Group Program Division)
  $11,760
County Barristers Libraries
(Start up / Core funding /
Purchase of Revised Statutes)

Annapolis County Bar Library
Antigonish County Bar Library
Cabot Trail Barristers' Library
Cape Breton Bar Library
Colchester County Bar Library
Cumberland County Bar Library
Digby County Bar Library
Hants County Bar Library
Kings County Bar Library
Lunenburg County Bar Library
Pictou County Bar Library
Strait Area Bar Library
Yarmouth County Bar Library



6
2
3
6
6
6
6
6
6
3
6
6
4



$30,162
$17,162
$22,162
$31,162
$31,162
$31,162
$31,162
$31,162
$31,162
$22,162
$30,162
$31,162
$22,162
Coverdale Courtwork Society
(Research on Women in
Halifax Provincial Courts)
(Special Projects)

1

1

$36,187

$13,780
Dalhousie Law School
Benchmarks Team
Law Library
External Moot Courts
Bursaries
Health Law Institute
Dean's Contingency Fund
Millennium Graduate Fellowship
Information Technology
Capital Purchases & Improvements
Professor Leon Trakman
(Book Judicial Reasoning)
Professor Mary Ellen Turpel
(Article - Aboriginal Treaties)
Professor Phillip Girard
(Essays on N.S. Legal Histories)
(Atlantic Legal History Conference)
Classroom Renovation - 3 year project

1
1
6
6
4
3
1

1

1

1

2

3

$3,500
$269,250
$94,199
$96,180
$200,000
$150,000
$420,000

$30,000

$8,600

$750

$12,000

$200,000
Dalhousie Law School Trust Fund
(Scholarship Fund)
5 $1,700,000
Dalhousie Legal Aid Service
(Seed money for Conference)
(Improvements to Facilities)
(Renovations)

1
1
1

$5,000
$5,000
$40,000
Deafness Advocacy Association of Nova Scotia
(Introduction to Law and the Courts)
1 $4,993
Donna Bourne-Tyson
(Computer assisted instruction for QuikLaw)
1 $6,500
Elizabeth Fry Society Mainland
(Production of Handbook -
Women in Conflict with the Law)
(Employment Development-Feasibility Study)
(Core Funding - Community
Development Worker)
(Core Funding - Executive Director)


2
1

2
5


$14,700
$10,000

$70,000
$146,917
Elizabeth Fry Society of Cape Breton
(Satellite Apartment Model)
1 $9,589
Family Mediation Nova Scotia
(Education for Separating and Divorced Parents)
1 $12,245
Federation of Law Societies of Canada
(Professional Responsibility Course)
1 $5,000
Henson College of Public Affairs
(Municipal Law Conferences)
3 $13,565
Human Rights Center for Research, Education and Public Policy
(Human Rights Research Library)
1 $10,000
Island Alternative Measures Society
(Updating and Printing Brochures)
(Service Awareness Education Project)
(Crime Prevention Educational Workshops)

3
1
1

$1,482
$9,000
$4,272
John Howard Society of Nova Scotia
(History of John Howard Society of N.S.)
(Computer Equipment)
(Information Sessions)
(Criminal Justice Education-Mainland)

1
1
1
3

$1,500
$1,000
$2,000
$121,871
Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia
(Dial-a-Law)
(Computer Equipment)
(Teaching Law in Schools)
(Black Community Advocates Conference)

1
1
1
1

$8,470
$10,175
$5,000
$35,872
Mediation Service
(Mediation Service in Family Court)
2 $29,536
Nova Scotia Association of
Women and the Law

(Updating & Printing Edition of
Understanding the Law)
2 $9,090
Native Law Centre
(Publication "Indian Reserves in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada")
1 $2,250
Nova Scotia Association of
Divorce and Family Mediation

(Conference on Mediation in
Family Law and Divorce)
1 $6,000
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Bar Admission Course
Lawyer Referral
Law News
N.S. Barristers' Library
(core funding)
(library assistant training)
(access to electronic information
& internet presence)
Skills training
New Bar Examination Development Project

12
7
6

16
1
2

3
1

$639,199
$180,450
$216,471

$684,888
$240
$150,900

$75,000
$46,200
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
(Law Clerk)
4 $134,229
Nova Scotia Supreme Court
Judges' Educational Conference
Visit of Media Relations Contact
Executive Assistant to Chief Justice
Law Clerk

1
1
3
3

$15,000
$2,000
$205,000
$133,000
Nova Scotia Judicial Development Trust
(Judicial Development Pilot Project)
1 $20,000
Options for Youth
(Brochure)
1 $1,200
Province of Nova Scotia - Department of Attorney General
(Learning Disability & Young Offenders Conference)
1 $1,000
Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia
(Guide to Estate Planning)
(On Site Consultation)

1
1

$6,000
$1,000
Society of Deaf &
Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians

(Workshops)
(Court Preparedness for
Sign Language Interpreters)
(Staff Training)


3
1

1


$14,269
$32,415

$700
Society for the Reform of Criminal Law
(Conference - "Equality in the Administration of Criminal Justice - Gender, Race and Class)
1 $5,000
St. Mary's University
(Library Resources in Criminology)
1 $20,000
University of King's College
(The News Media and the Courts)
1 $2,500
Women and Youth Street Services Association
(Core Funding)
1 $10,000
Yellow Pages Advertisement 4 $16,000


 

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