Honour Walk: Residential schools students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
The people who search for former students for Blott and Company work for a company called Honour Walk.
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Form Fillers: Residential school students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
To get into the IAP process, you must fill out a 21-page application form and then prepare for a hearing where adjudicators will question you to ensure your claims are legitimate. The IAP Secretariat encourages former students to retain a lawyer to help them with this complex process.
Court supervised: Residential school students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
Ontario Chief Justice Warren Winkler and eight other provincial court judges in different regions of the country supervise the settlement agreement. Justice Winkler has retained class action lawyer Randy Bennett to assist him. Since this is a court-approved and court-monitored process, the court has the authority to oversee and intervene as necessary.
The IAP Process: Residential school students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
In this story, we are talking about clients involved in the Independent Assessment Process or IAP. The IAP is a very bureaucratic and complex system set up under the Indian Residential Schools Class Action Settlement Agreement to decide whether the former students deserve to be compensated for physical and sexual abuse they endured in the schools as children – and if so, how much that compensation should be.
Recent Developments: Residential school students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
On November 10, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown ordered an investigation into the allegations made against a Calgary law firm. We do not know how many of the Blott and Company lawyers are facing these allegations.
Residential school students say they’ve been hurt by law firm
They’re in a complicated bureaucratic process because they were victimized at residential schools. But they’re not pleased with the law firm that signed them up as clients.
PM Harper “not happy” with Attawapiskat situation
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government was “not very happy” with the situation in Attawapiskat, the Ontario First Nations community in the grip of a severe housing crisis.
RCMP investigators knew it was the “pig farmer in Coquitlam” years before arrest: Galliford
An RCMP corporal is speaking out about the botched RCMP investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton.
