Legal Resources

This easy-to-read guide describes several scams and how to protect yourself. In addition to explaining frauds, including identity theft, it also details what to do if you get scammed and how to get help.

This website has a flowchart about criminal court process and multiple booklets about defending yourself if you're charged with a crime. The booklets cover mischief, possession of property under $5,000 obtained by crime, possession of an illegal drug, breach of a court order, assault, and theft under $5,000.

If you have a court of appeal case and can’t afford a lawyer, this page explains how to apply for a court-appointed lawyer under section 684 of the Criminal Code.

If you’re an immigrant in Canada sponsored by your partner and they are abusing you, find out how to protect yourself or your children.

Guides on protection orders against family members, or against anyone else you feel is a danger to you.

This free and anonymous tool is for those who’d like to make a claim for an intimate image protection order, damages, and a penalty if someone doesn’t comply with an intimate image protection order. It asks you simple questions and gives you customized legal information and options based on your answers. It also has self-help tools and referrals.

Explains Indigenous Sentencing Courts including court locations, how they work, and their goals. These courts are for Indigenous people charged with criminal offences.

This guide has information about what a judge might consider when sentencing people after they have been found guilty of a crime in BC Provincial Court.

Explains the help available for children who are victims of crime. This includes agencies that can help and the PEACE (Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment) programs which provide group and individual counselling for children aged three to eighteen.

This page explains the steps of a Provincial Court criminal case. It includes information about the bail hearing, the initial appearance, the arraignment hearing, the preliminary the hearing, the trial, and sentencing.