Legal Services

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

Logo features a red hand holding a stylized black feather with red and white Indigenous art details, and the words “the power of friendship” in an arc over the feather in red text.

Family Law Legal Advocacy Program

Prince George Native Friendship Centre
Free help to anyone in Prince George with family law issues. The legal advocate provides information, referrals, advocacy, court support, and assistance with filling out legal forms for parental arrangements, children’s rights, child protection, child or spousal support, separation and divorce, guardianship, protection orders, and FMEP.
Last reviewed August 2024
The logo features the words “the Shuswap” in small red letters, above the word “family” in large green letters, which is above the word “centre” in large blue letters. To the top right there is a kite, coloured blue, green, red, and orange.

Poverty law advocate (Salmon Arm)

Shuswap Family Centre
Free information, summary advice, referrals, and legal representation for residents of the Shuswap who are struggling accessing other legal resources. They help with issues including income security (disability benefits, CPP, CPPD, EI), residential tenancy (disputes and housing applications), debt, employment standards, and seniors advocacy.
Last reviewed July 2024
The logo features a circular design with a red border and text. Inside the circle, there are three stylized red hands holding various traditional tools and symbols. The text "QUESNEL TILLICUM SOCIETY" arcs around the top of the circle, and "NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE" arcs around the bottom, all in red capital letters.

Poverty law advocate (Quesnel)

Quesnel Tillicum Society
Gives clear and meaningful information about legal issues, and advocacy and support to people who aren’t eligible for legal aid. Issues they help with include assisting with appeals, documents, attending hearings and preparing for court, and negotiating third party settlements. They provide self-help information, legal research, and referrals.
Last reviewed July 2024
The logo features the letter "U" in dark blue on a pale blue square.

Poverty law advocate (Prince Rupert)

Prince Rupert Unemployed Action Centre
Advocacy services for employment insurance, landlord/tenant, income assistance, Canada Pension Plan (CPP), disability, and employment standards.
Last reviewed July 2024
Circle with brush-like shapes attached and organization name.

Poverty law advocate (Prince George)

Active Support Against Poverty (ASAP)
Advocacy services for low-income people dealing with government agencies, including people with disabilities and people on income assistance. Addresses disability, income assistance, and tenancy issues. Services include information, referrals, help with forms, and access to phones and fax machines. Also free income tax preparation if you qualify.
Last reviewed July 2024
The logo consists of a purple circle with the white letters "CSA" inside it. The letters "C" and "S" are styled in a standard font, while the "A" is stylized to resemble the outline of a house, with the crossbar of the "A" extending to form a horizontal line.

Poverty law advocate (Powell River)

Powell River Community Services Association
Provides free and confidential service to people with legal poverty related issues including applying for provincial and federal benefits, appealing denials, tenancy issues, debt and collections, employment problems, human rights, and more. Also offers help for people struggling with contacting government workers on the phone, and help with forms.
Last reviewed July 2024
The logo shows a wolf’s head in the Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art style. It’s coloured red, yellow, and black. The wolf is inside a decorated circle of the same colours and style.

Poverty law advocate (north Vancouver Island)

Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre Society
The Poverty and Housing Programs at Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre offer housing tenancy support and official document forms support (including birth certificates and Status Cards) to the communities of the Mt. Waddington District, especially to Indigenous people experiencing professional barriers.
Last reviewed July 2024
Logo featuring the letters “EFry” in a calligraphy font, with a curved line rising from the top of the “E” to a slight curve down past the “y,” all coloured dark blue. To the right are the words “Elizabeth Fry Society” above the words “of Greater Vancouver,” in dark grey.

Poverty law advocate (Metro Vancouver)

Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Legal advocates at the EFry’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 2024
The logo shows a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art totem animal, coloured red and black. To its right are the letters “USCLAS.”

Poverty 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 2024
 The image shows a lightbulb-shaped word cloud with the word "ADVOCACY" prominently displayed in red at the center. Other words in the cloud, which are grey, include "LAW," "LIBERTY," "JUDGMENT," "FREEDOM," "COURT," "SENTENCE," "LEGAL," and "LAWYER."

Poverty 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 2024