The Canadian Bar Association – BC Branch has launched a public education campaign for additional legal aid funding in BC, called We Need Legal Aid. The campaign’s website features information and...
Legal Aid, Organizing, British Columbia
"We Need Legal Aid" is the name of a new website produced by the Canadian Bar Association BC to press for more provincial funding for legal aid in that province.
http://www.weneedlegalaid.com
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Legal Aid, British Columbia
"It is shameful that in our wealthy province we no longer have resources available which would give real help to parties in this situation," wrote B.C. Supreme Court Justice Loryl Russell in a...
Family, Legal Aid, Women, British Columbia
A group of B.C. lawyers providing duty counsel services have announced their plan to disrupt the system through a refusal to provide services. They will target the beginning of 2012 to stop serving...
Alberta, Legal Aid, Prisoners' Rights, British Columbia
The City of Vancouver has struggled to force the owners of two Vancouver Single Room Occupancy hotels to clean up their properties and fix the multitude of reported problems. Recently the situation...
Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
100 Mile House & District Women's Centre has received funding from the Legal Services Society to provide a range of legal services in the 100 Mile House area. More details area available in this...
Legal Aid, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
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...
Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
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...
Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) provides a number of legal and advocacy services in the areas of disability, mental, human rights and poverty.
Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
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...
Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
Pro Bono Law of BC has a searchable map of all pro bono resources in British Columbia.
Legal Aid, British Columbia
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...
Legal Aid, Legal Research, British Columbia
Access Justice provides pro bono clinics at several dozen locations around British Columbia, often in cooperation with local advocacy organizations.
Legal Aid, British Columbia
BC 211 is British Columbia's directory of community, social and government services. Available online or by dialling 211, where staff are available 24/7 to assist those looking for services.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, British Columbia
This booklet contains useful information for people who need help with immigration and/or social assistance. Its explains what to do if the person who sponsored you to come to Canada is unwilling or...
Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Info (PLEI), British Columbia
Updated weekly by the Coalition For Public Legal Services' co-chairs, we provide a plethora of information for our fight to renew British Columbia's commitment to legal aid!
Legal Aid, Organizing, British Columbia
Len Doust's report, "Foundation for Change: Report on the Public Legal Commission on Legal Aid in BC" reflects problems with lack of services:
"The need for legal aid for poverty law matters is...
Legal Aid, British Columbia
The ELAN (Electronic Legal Aid News) blog is intended primarily for community workers, other intermediaries, librarians, and the general public. It focuses primarily on promoting Legal Services...
Legal Aid, Legal Info (PLEI), British Columbia
It’s time for a complete overhaul of BC’s legal aid system, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and West Coast LEAF (Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund)....
Legal Aid, British Columbia
The final version of the Public Commission on Legal Aid video is up on YouTube.
The Public Commission on Legal Aid was established to engage the public of British Columbia on the future of legal aid...
Legal Aid, British Columbia
