Legal Services

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

Logo features a line drawing of a green house with blue mountains in the background, next to the organization name.

Poverty law advocate (Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton)

Sea to Sky Community Services
Provides free legal support to people and families with low incomes on issues including tenancy, income assistance, disability benefits, debt issues, and other legal matters. The program also provides public education, information, guidance, and referrals to other services when needed.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo of "TRAC" with the letter "A" shaped like a house.

Residential Tenancy Branch Dispute Resolution

Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre (TRAC)
Provides free legal representation, if you’re eligible, at RTB dispute resolution if you and other tenants in your building are being affected by the same tenancy issue(s) and would like to file for dispute resolution as a group, or if you’re an individual tenant experiencing a tenancy issue that TRAC considers serious, common, or systemic.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo features the acronym "salc bc" in lowercase, bold, orange letters. To the right, there is a text block in smaller font that reads "SOUTH ASIAN LEGAL CLINIC OF BC," also in orange, contained within a partial circular outline.

South Asian Legal Clinic

South Asian Legal Clinic of BC
The clinic’s lawyers provide low-barrier and culturally sensitive legal support for low-income South Asian families. You’ll get a free 30 minute session for legal advice and summary. Additional legal services are available if you’re eligible. Issues covered include family law, child protection, wills and estates, tenancy rights, and more.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo of "PovNet" featuring the wordmark in lowercase letters in green within a green circle.

Find an Advocate

PovNet
An online tool to help you find a legal advocate and anti-poverty organizations that can help with issues related to family law, debt, welfare, housing, disability, human rights, employment & workers’ rights. The database includes women's shelters, settlement programs, and other community services. You can search by areas of advocacy or city.
Last reviewed August 2024
The logo consists of a shield with the text "University of Victoria" below it, and the text "Law" below that. The shield features three red birds at the top, a book with yellow pages in the centre, and alternating blue and white horizontal stripes at the bottom.

The Law Centre

The Law Centre at the University of Victoria
May provide legal advice, assistance, and representation to eligible clients who live in the Capital Regional District and who can’t afford a lawyer. They help with criminal matters, divorce, support and other family law matters, human rights complaints, and civil disputes. They also help with some hearings before administrative tribunals.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo of Mediate BC with the wordmark in blue and a stylized green arc of dots above the letter "t" to represent the concept of mediation.

Registered Roster Mediator

Mediate BC
A directory of civil, family, child protection, and med-arb (mediation-arbitration) mediators across BC. Mediators offer service in various languages and set their own fees, as listed in their profiles. They are impartial and won’t make decisions for you. They maintain a safe, confidential, communicative process to help you reach an agreement.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo is a blue circle in which there’s a line drawing of mountains, with the sun overhead and a pine tree in the foreground. The words “Okanagan Thompson Legal Clinic” are to the right.

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 August 2024
NSRLP logo featuring three speech bubbles, two in white and one in yellow, set against a gray background, with the wordmark on the bottom.

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 August 2024
ribbon icon and organisation name

Lawyer Referral Service

Access Pro Bono
This service helps you find a suitable lawyer. Anyone can call to get contact information of a lawyer who will meet for a free 15-minute appointment. You can retain the lawyer at a rate you both agree to, but there’s no obligation for either of you to continue after the free consultation.
Last reviewed August 2024
Logo featuring the scales of justice, in white, inside a circle. The left side of the circle is blue, the right side is green. Below are the words “The Canadian Bar Association British Columbia Branch.”

Find-a-Lawyer

The Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch (CBABC)
Online legal directory where you can find legal services in your community by searching for the location, area of practice, and language spoken to find all lawyers that meet those criteria. You can also find a specific lawyer or law firm if you know the name.
Last reviewed August 2024