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Gladue report request form: Aboriginal Legal Services

Aboriginal Legal Services offers free Gladue report writing services at several courthouses across Ontario, including in the Ottawa area. This webpage provides you with more information and a link to the webform to apply for services.

Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples & 1st Supplement

This report and 1st supplement provide background information and tips for lawyers who work with Indigenous clients. Topics covered include:

referral information for Indigenous service organizations
information on how to get Gladue reports prepared

CLEO Steps to Justice: Indigenous rights and criminal law

This Steps to Justice webpage produced by CLEO links to multiple questions and answers about Indigenous rights in the criminal process, as well as links to supplementary and referral information. The information is also available in French on CLEO’s Justice pas-à-pas website.

Indigenous rights: Bail

This resource from CLEO explains Gladue factors that courts must consider when deciding whether to give bail to an Indigenous person.

Indigenous Rights: Sentencing

This resource from CLEO explains Gladue factors that courts must consider when sentencing an Indigenous person.

Gladue court resources – video

This webpage produced by Aboriginal Legal Services links to a video on Gladue sentencing principles for Indigenous people who have been convicted of an offence.
**Note that Aboriginal Legal Services also offers help with preparing Gladue reports across Ontario, including in Ottawa: for more information, visit their website: www.aboriginallegal.ca/gladue.html