Legal Services

The family law advocate helps with issues including child protection, guardianship, support, and separation and divorce. The poverty law advocate provides information, support, and one-on-one advocacy to get provincial and federal benefits and services. The legal advocate also helps with other issues such as debt and WCB.

Provides information and advice about child support, spousal support, legal aid, family law programs, and various legal issues related to family law, as well as income-support programs and residential tenancy concerns. Also helps with applying for legal aid, income support, and appeals.

Referrals, legal advice, and representation for issues related to poverty law, including disability and other benefits, tenancy issues, debt collection, and human rights; and issues related to family law, including child or spousal support, divorce, separation, and property division.

Provides information, referrals, and representation on issues including various family legal issues (including child protection issues), income assistance (applying for disability benefits and appeals, and more), housing (residential tenancy issues for tenants), and employment issues (employment insurance, employment standards, and CPP).

Support and advocacy for people living with a combination of mental illness, mental health problems, low-income, or homelessness, on issues including income security and financial hardship, access to health care and substance use supports, filing taxes, residential tenancy and housing, child protection and family law issues, and debt relief.

The Disability Law Clinic provides free legal advice to people with disabilities about human rights and discrimination. Issues include accommodations in the workplace; access to transportation; access to education; housing; and service animals. They can also provide advice to people having problems with their disability benefits.

The family law advocate helps with issues such as divorce, parenting time, and child/spousal support. The legal advocate helps with problems involving your landlord, employment, income assistance, debt, and more. The legal information and assistance coordinator helps with legal aid referrals, wills and estates, debt, and other issues.

Legal advice and assistance to low-income individuals, generally to appeal a decision (judicial review). Issues include housing (Residential Tenancy Branch, and more), income security (Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal, and more), and workers’ rights (SST appeals on EI, and more).

The clinic provides advocacy, legal advice, and representation mainly to low-income individuals. Areas of the law include social assistance, income assistance, tenancy, employment (including employment insurance and employment standards), workers’ compensation, human rights, debt, and disability (including mental health).

Free and confidential legal advocacy services including information and referrals, summary advice and support, and full representation in many legal matters including housing (on and off reserve), income/social assistance, debt, police accountability, human rights, disability, Indigenous legal issues, elder issues, child protection, and much more.