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C A N A D I A N L a w y e r 4STUDENTS AUGUST 2018 61 part of the share. And if they make less than $60,000, they pay nothing — the loan is for- given. e pilot project, funded by an initial $1-million investment, was first offered in 2014 to five students — it has since in- creased to seven students a year. "We were trying to address how to broaden the pool of people who apply for law school be- cause, oen when we talk about accessibil- ity, we're just talking about among those who are applying," Sossin says. "We never count those who don't even send in the ap- plication because they think there's no way I could take this kind of debt on." Donkers, in fact, wouldn't be a student at Osgoode if it hadn't been for the project. "I applied to law school knowing that, unless I got into Osgoode and unless then I also got into the ICLP program, which at that point had only been around for one year, I wasn't going to go." Other law programs do offer some form of loans or debt relief for a limited number of students. U of T offers a post-graduation debt-relief program, and the University of Manitoba has debt relief available for stu- dents who remain in the province to practise. However, these programs don't neces- sarily address the overall issue of the cost itself or what happens to students who, while they don't qualify for special assis- tance, may also not be able to fully cover the cost of law school itself. e obvious question here is: Why not fight to make law school tuition lower for everyone? Deregulation of tuition and the cuts to federal transfer payments to univer- sities have had a direct impact on the cost of legal education. But, according to Sos- sin, a million-dollar investment that can help fund seven students' education a year won't make a dent in overall tuition rates. Otherwise, lowering tuition would mean cutting programs and services law students have come to expect. In a 2017 paper, Sossin and Darcel Bullen made the case for a new model of legal edu- cation — flex-time JDs, which would open part-time programs to students far beyond the limited number that now take JD pro- grams on a part-time basis. Bullen and Sos- sin cite night and part-time law schools es- tablished in the late 19th century that opened features 4S © 2018 Thomson Reuters Canada Limited 00249BT-A89998-CM Available risk-free for 30 days Order online: store.thomsonreuters.ca Call Toll-Free: 1-800-387-5164 | In Toronto: 416-609-3800 Order # L7798- 8098-65203 $168 Softcover approx. 1020 pages December 2017 978-0-7798-8098-0 Shipping and handling are extra. Price(s) subject to change without notice and subject to applicable taxes. Get a comprehensive collection of family law cases, commentary, digests, notes and questions that can be used for initial research. Family Law: Text, Cases, Materials and Notes, 9th Edition provides up-to-date coverage of the law of property for married and unmarried cohabitants, spousal support, child support, custody and access, and domestic agreements. It also covers emerging aspects of family law such as evolving concepts of parentage, judicial interviews in custody and access cases, the impact of domestic violence on family law outcomes, and statistical trends affecting family law. New in this edition This new edition features updates to case law and commentary, including comprehensive revision of the following chapters: • Chapter 4 – Divorce – New cases include Cheng v. Liu (2017, ONCA) and Plech v. Barwicz (2016, ONSC) • Chapter 5 – Family Property – New cases include Reiter v. Hollub (2017, ONCA) and Hunks v. Hunks (2017, ONCA) • Chapter 7 – Spousal Support – New cases include Schulstad v. Schulstad (2017, ONCA) and Mason v. Mason (2016, ONCA) • Chapter 8 – The Law of Parentage – New cases include P.P. v. D.D. (2017, ONCA) and M.M.R. v. J.M. (2017, ONSC) • Chapter 10 – Child Support – New cases include G. v. G. (2017, ONCA) and L. v. M. (2016, ONCA) New Edition Family Law: Text, Cases, Materials and Notes, 9th Edition Berend Hovius, Mary-Jo Maur, and Nicholas Bala

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