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The role of the CLTD is to create the legal documentation needed for practicing law and delivering legal services in French, primarily in Ontario, but also in the other common law provinces and territories. The Department of Justice Canada provides financial aid to the CLTD through the Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund.<\/p>\n
In addition to doing work supported by the Support Fund, the CLTD offers\u00a0translation and legal writing services to the legal community as a whole on a fee-for- service basis, and also provides documentation services and terminology information free of charge. Through its use of information technology and its highly specialized lawyer-linguists, the CLTD has done important work and produced a long list of publications in the field of common law in French over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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