Legal Services

Find organizations that provide legal help in BC. Most services are free or low cost.

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Community law advocate (Metro Vancouver)

Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Legal advocates at Elizabeth Fry’s Poverty Law Clinic in New Westminster help women dealing with rental disputes, evictions, debt collection, bankruptcy, and mental health and employment standards. You can also get help accessing income programs.
Last reviewed July 2025
The logo shows a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art totem animal, coloured red and black. To its right are the letters “USCLAS.”

Community law advocate (Hazelton, BC)

Upper Skeena Counselling & Legal Assistance Society
Advocacy and poverty law services for Gitxsan, Wet’suwet’en, and non-Indigenous clients on issues including housing, employment standards, human rights, Ombudsperson complaints, ICBC, and social assistance and disability issues.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Community law advocate (Haida Gwaii)

Haida Gwaii Legal Project Society
Provides legal information and workshops offering legal education, information, and resources. Encourages individuals to solve their personal problems with the available but limited resources on Haida Gwaii, and ensures low-income people get access to legal information, legal advice, and legal representation.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Community law advocate (Downtown Eastside)

First United
Provides legal assistance, advice, and representation to low-income and vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside. The advocates provide a broad spectrum of legal advocacy services but mainly focus on tenancy and social assistance issues.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Community law advocate (Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, and Tumbler Ridge)

South Peace Community Resources Society
Legal advocate for people facing poverty law issues. They provide information, advocacy, and referrals on issues including income security, housing, debts and collections, and family law information and referrals. The advocate is not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Okanagan Thompson Legal Clinic

Community Legal Clinic Operating Society of BC
Free legal advice and representation to low-income people in the Kamloops and Kelowna area. They help with income assistance, limited family law, disability, tenancy, employment insurance, employment standards, Indigenous legal issues, human rights, small claims, CRT matters, judicial reviews, and other areas not covered by legal aid.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Community law advocate (Vernon)

Okanagan Advocacy & Resource Society (OARS)
Provides basic information on poverty law and policy, and on potential next steps, so that people can make an informed choice when they face a problem. Issues covered include welfare, tenant information, EI, Canada Pension Plan disability, and more. They offer referrals for other issues. Please note, they don't give legal advice.
Last reviewed July 2025
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Nicola Valley Advocacy Centre (community law advocate)

Nicola Valley Community Justice Services Society
Provides legal advocacy services to people with low incomes who need legal information, advice, or representation on a wide range of legal problems such as income security, housing, disabilities, violence, and debt. It also provides public legal education and support for community organizations wishing to help clients with legal problems.
Last reviewed July 2025
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National Directory of Professionals Assisting SRLs

National Self-Represented Litigants Project
A directory of lawyers (as well as paralegals, and other professionals offering therapeutic support and assistance) offering self-represented litigants (SRLs) affordable assistance, primarily in the form of unbundled legal or limited-scope services (unbundling).
Last reviewed July 2025
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Family law and community law advocate (Campbell River)

Opportunities Career Services Society
Provides legal advocacy to low-income residents in Campbell River and the surrounding area. They can help with disability benefits, seniors’ benefits, residential tenancy disputes, and consumer debt issues. Also provides family law advocacy on guardianship and parenting time, child support and spousal support, desok order divorce, and more.
Last reviewed July 2025