Write for Justice Contest
Edition 2025
The Barreau de Montréal is holding it’s 38th edition of the “Write for Justice” literary essay contest. Below are the details of this annual contest open to elementary and high school students on the Island of Montreal.
As Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms celebrates its 50th anniversary in June 2025, the theme selected for this edition is the following:
“Which right or freedom guaranteed by the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms do you prefer and why?”
PRIZES : The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday March 29, 2025, at the Montreal Courthouse, during the Aim for Justice Events of the Barreau de Montréal. The winners will read their essays to the audience and will receive $200 from the Barreau de Montréal and Antidote+ Family, the indispensable writing assistance software suite from Druide informatique. They will also be invited for a guided tour of the Courthouse and for a meeting with a judge.
Kindly note that the deadline to submit the essays is February 3, 2025.
How to participate
The participants’ texts must be submitted in the same format (PDF or Word), and in this mandatory order for each student :
1. Completed registration form
2. Consent from the parent or tutors for texts written by students under the age of 14
3. Text of the participant.
IMPORTANT: the names of participants, their teachers and schools must be indicated on the registration form. Please do not include this information in your text, which will be judged anonymously.
The Organizing Committee reminds participants of the importance of submitting original material. Teachers should be mindful that examples given in class sometimes appear repeatedly in the essays of a given group. Also, to ensure that the essays remain anonymous, we ask teachers to remind their students to avoid identifying themselves, their school, or their teacher in their essays. For statistical purposes, teachers who decide not to submit all the essays written by their students are asked to indicate the total number of students who participated.
