October 31, 2011
The mission of the Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia is to promote access to justice in British Columbia by providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit...
Keywords: lawyers, legal, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, pro bono, British Columbia, Manuals and guides, Organizations, Services
July 12, 2011
AdminLawBC.ca
A Guide to Administrative Law in BC
What is Administrative Law?
All levels of government make laws and regulations that affect us every day. For example, the municipal government makes...
Keywords: administrative law, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, poverty law, tribunal, British Columbia, Government information, Manuals and guides
June 1, 2011
Legal Services Society (LSS) is the organization that provides legal aid in BC. Check out their redesigned website if you are looking for a lawyer, a legal aid office, legal advice and legal...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations
June 1, 2011
BC LawMatters is a blog for public librarians in BC who are participating in the LawMatters project, which will provide all British Columbian residents with local access to basic legal information at...
Keywords: Blogs, Legal Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
Canadian Prison Law is a resource site of prison law cases and of statues and legislation that involve prisoners and prisons.
Keywords: Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
LawLine Journal Blog was created to share some of the solutions to the legal problems of callers to LawLINE a phone service of the Legal Services Society for people with low incomes who face legal...
Keywords: Blogs, Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
David Eby is a lawyer with the PIVOT Legal Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His work is focused on housing, policing, and poverty.
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Research, Poverty Research, British Columbia
May 30, 2011
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is an American nonprofit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP’s mission is to improve the economic security, educational and...
Keywords: Legal Research, Poverty Research, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) provides a number of legal and advocacy services in the areas of disability, mental, human rights and poverty.
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations, Services
May 30, 2011
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the Justice System website provides a resource for justice system professionals and others working to understand Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD...
Keywords: Disability, Legal Research, Mental Health, Ontario, Organizations
May 30, 2011
The Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) provides specialized legal aid for British Columbians. The CLAS website publications page has links to a numbers of useful resources including A Lay...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
The LSLAP (Law Students' Legal Advice Program) was incorporated in 1979 as a non-profit society, to provide free legal advice and representation for the poor and disadvantaged. Part of the program is...
Keywords: Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
Law Courts Education Society of BC has an extensive website aimed at making justice more accessible. There are resources, online learning tools, self-help tools and other hands-on educational...
Keywords: Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations, Research and education
May 29, 2011
The Electronic Legal Aid Newsletter (ELAN) is published 9 times year by the Legal Services Society to keep individuals and organizations who help low-income people deal with the legal system up to...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
Legal Services Society of BC has an online archive of Consumer Law publications.
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, Legal Research, British Columbia, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
Taking Your Case to the Supreme Court of British Columbia is a multimedia series of 11 presentations that provides information to self-representing litigants about what they should know before...
Keywords: Legal Research, General resources, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
“It will make it easier for community groups to request pro bono assistance. It will help lawyers find the type of pro bono work that interests them, and help them practise better, faster and easier...
Keywords: Legal Research, Organizing, British Columbia, General resources
May 29, 2011
The BC Supreme Court has some materials on their self-help information centre website to help understand the court procedure in civil matters. Community Legal Assistance Society has more lay person...
Keywords: Legal Research, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
The Seniors Gateway is a searchable website of legal information and resources for seniors.
Keywords: Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Gateways
May 29, 2011
The BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre has published a fact sheet (in PDF) for anyone who has been told by the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance (MEIA) that they owe them money.
Keywords: Legal Research, Welfare, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
The brochure, If You Can't Pay Your Court Fine On-time (in PDF) is appropriate for use in B.C., it explains what people can do if they can't pay their court finds on-time. It's available in English...
Keywords: Legal Research, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
A 50 page Paper examining liability of nonprofits can be downloaded (in PDF). It explains how "Nonprofit organizations and their volunteers play an important role in society. In recent years their...
Keywords: Legal Research, Organizing, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 29, 2011
Forced Migration Online has launched an extensive, new resource on international law related to refugees and other forced migrants.
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, Manuals and guides, Research and education, International
May 29, 2011
The Office of the Commissioner of Review Tribunals (CPP/OAS) has added a database Old Age Security legal information, such as case summaries, conditions of personal information disclosure, general...
Keywords: Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, Government information, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is a US based organization acting as a legal resource for the international human rights community.
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Research, Reports and documents, Research and education, United States
May 29, 2011
The Volunteer Legal Advocacy Programs (VLAP) has provides advocacy resources. The booklets are intended to help members who are in need of information in the following areas: disability insurance,...
Keywords: Disability, Legal Research, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
Justice Beyond the Walls is dedicated to the protection and advancement of human rights in Canadian prisons. There are links to various court, government, NGO, international, human rights and media...
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
The B.C. Courthouse Library Society website is now Courthouse Libraries BC. This non-profit website provides legal information services to the legal community and public in BC.
Keywords: Education, Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
A number of publications have been updated - including information pamphlets on CPP benefits, WCB and EI. There are also a few new publications - all available on the Community Legal Education...
Keywords: Legal Research, Ontario, Reports and documents
May 29, 2011
Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) undertakes solid legal and research services on behalf of consumers. The Centre website has research and reports on consumer issues concerning...
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, Legal Research, Utilities, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
Justice for Girls has a number of online resources - a Girls' Rights Card, Rights of Incarcerated Girls in BC Facts Sheet, and reports, articles and links on girls and the criminal justice system.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Women, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
CanLII, a searchable database of Provincial, Territorial and Federal statutes and regulations and Provincial and Supreme court decisions too vast to list is available as an online resource. From the...
Keywords: Legal Research, Reports and documents, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
"ProBono Law of BC's Online Poverty Law Training Course is a free online training course designed for lawyers and of benefit to some non-lawyer legal professionals (such as paralegals and advocates...
Keywords: Education, Legal Research, British Columbia, Programs and courses
May 29, 2011
"CLEONet is an online clearinghouse for community legal education in Ontario. Community legal education helps low-income and disadvantaged communities understand and exercise their legal rights."
Keywords: Legal Research, Ontario, Organizations
April 14, 2011
Pivot Legal works to advance the interests and improving the lives of marginalized persons through law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action.
Pivot’s mandate is to use the law to...
Keywords: child welfare, child welfare, criminalization, criminalization, Downtown Eastside, Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, homelessness, homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Organizing, policing, policing, sex workers, sex workers, social change, social change, social justice, social justice, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, Services
April 11, 2011
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a non-profit society that advances the interests of groups that are generally unrepresented or underrepresented in issues of major public...
Keywords: consumer advocacy, consumer law, consumer rights, credit, debit, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, disability rights, factsheets, farmworkers rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, PLEI, Tenants' Rights, Utilities, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs, Organizations, Research and education, Services
December 9, 2010
The People's Law School of British Columbia provides free and impartial public legal education to many thousands of British Columbians in all walks of life. They offer free, plain-language booklets...
Keywords: consumer law, criminal law, disability rights, family law, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, residential tenancy law, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs, Manuals and guides, Organizations, Services
December 9, 2010
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (www.aidslaw.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research, legal and policy...
Keywords: Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Campaigns and initiatives, All of Canada
October 29, 2010
Policy Note is a blog written by staff of the BC office of the Centre for Policy Alternatives. They post progressive commentary and offer solutions on issues in BC ranging from human rights, poverty...
Keywords: Blogs, economy, Government Policy, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, public policy, social policy, Unemployment, Women, British Columbia
May 13, 2010
The Artists' Legal Outreach are a group of volunteer lawyers and law students committed to working with artists and arts organizations. They offer resources, workshops and clinics where artists can...
Keywords: Art and Culture, artists, legal help, Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations
