Legal Resources

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

This page provides information about community-based, Indigenous, Municipal, Provincial, and Federal restorative justice programs in British Columbia.

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.

Explains what witnesses will need to do if the person accused of committing the crime they witnessed is formally charged and the case goes to court.

This page has court forms for federal contraventions violation tickets. The forms are in a PDF format that can be filled out and printed.

Describes the different forms of domestic violence and links to the help available for victims of domestic violence, including a resource list and help line numbers. Also find tips and resources for people in abusive relationships, information about peace bonds and protection orders, and information about counselling for children.

Explains that break and enter is a serious offence, regardless of the value of the property stolen. This page links to the help available if someone is a victim of break and enter.

Links to information sheets. Topics include the BC prosecution service (in multiple languages), the role of Crown counsel (in multiple languages), special prosecutors, bail, intimate partner violence prosecutions, sentencing, high-risk and long-term and dangerous offenders, publication bans, information for witnesses, and charges against police.