The Social Rights Advocacy Centre (SRAC) have their fingers crossed for the Supreme Court to announce that it has done the right thing on Thursday November 3rd by agreeing to hear Nell Toussaint's...
Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, All of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the federal government's appeal of an exemption which has allowed Insite, a supervised injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, to operate. PHS...
Government Policy, Health, Legal Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
Canadian Prison Law is a resource site of prison law cases and of statues and legislation that involve prisoners and prisons.
Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, All of Canada
CLEONet's Organizational List is a large resource of links to organizations in Ontario and across Canada that deal with community legal education in many different capacities.
Legal Research, Organizing, All of Canada
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...
Legal Research, All of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada Acts and Rules webpage is a good resource for those who may need to attend Supreme Court without a lawyer.
Legal Research, All of Canada
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...
Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, All of Canada
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,...
Disability, Legal Research, All of Canada
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...
Human Rights, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, All of Canada
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...
Debt and Consumer Law, Legal Research, Utilities, All of Canada
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...
Legal Research, All of Canada
"CCPI was formed to bring together low-income activists and poverty law advocates to ensure that poor people in Canada can effectively secure and assert their rights under international human rights...
ccpi, Legal Research, Poverty Research, All of Canada
The Applied Research Learning Network on Poverty and Human Rights (LEPnet.org) is a secure platform for knowledge-sharing, collaborative research, and capacity building in implementing strategies for...
applied research, legal empowerment, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, online library, Poverty Research, research, All of Canada, International
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...
Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, All of Canada
LEAF - the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund - is a national charitable organization that works toward ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women in Canada.
Legal Research, Women, women's equality, women's legal education, women's rights, All of Canada
MOSAIC's guide A Guide to Humanitarian and Compassionate Applications (H&C) for refugee claimants in Canada. Note that other languages are available on the MultiLingoLegal website.
Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
MOSAIC has recently updated some of their public legal guides. Check out Immigration and Refugee Law Guide (Editor's Note, Sept 2010: This Guide is now called Legal Issues for Newcomers and is...
Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
Legaltree is a collaboratively built legal research resource. While some of the content on Legaltree is contributed by the site administrators, the focus is on content contributed by lawyers in the...
Legal Research, All of Canada
Pivot's report, Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform presents the results of two years of research and in depth discussions with eighty-four sex workers...
Human Rights, Legal Research, Women, Workers' Rights, All of Canada
Pro Bono Partnership Guide 2005 (in PDF) is a guide for community groups (and lawyers) for the establishment of a probono law program that utilizes the pro bono expertise of lawyers to assist...
Legal Research, All of Canada
