Legal Resources

Describes how to defend yourself if you are charged with assault. Includes what the prosecutor must prove to find you guilty, sentencing information, and how to get legal help.

This online toolkit is a compilation of questions and answers around issues affecting 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. The content is divided into sections on criminal justice, health care, youth health care, and youth. The appendixes include definitions, resources, human right complaints, BC Corrections, and forms.

Information on the Cannabis Act, which creates a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale, and possession of cannabis across Canada.

Provides general information for parents and guardians of children who are in trouble with the law.

Cannabis is legal as of October 17, 2018. The Cannabis Act creates a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale, and possession of cannabis across Canada.

A one-stop source of ticket information, this online tool helps you explore information about your ticket anonymously, using step-by-step guided pathways. It deals with provincial violation tickets (such as traffic offences), federal contravention tickets (such as fishing offences), and municipal tickets.

Provincial violation tickets are traffic tickets issued for offences such as running a red light or driving without insurance — offences under the Motor Vehicle Act and Regulations. Read more here.

This page has court forms for violation tickets, including motor vehicle offences. The forms are in a PDF format that can be filled out and printed.

This page explains the various ways to pay a provincial violation ticket.

This page explains how to dispute a provincial violation ticket. It includes the notice of dispute form in a format that can be filled in and printed.