Legal Services

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.

Connect with an articling clinician for a family, tenancy and strata, employment, wills and estates, civil, corporate, consumer, or criminal law issue. Schedule a free initial phone or video meeting with a clinician (up to 30 minutes). They work under the supervision of practising lawyers and provide legal services on a lower-cost, fixed-fee basis.

The Child and Youth Legal Centre provides legal help for young people who are experiencing problems relating to family law, child protection, a breach of human rights, and many other legal issues.

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.

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.

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.

The clinic is staffed full-time by a supervising lawyer, a legal assistant, and a legal advocate. They provide free advocacy, legal advice, and representation (mainly to low-income individuals) on income assistance, disability, EI, CPP, OAS, survivor pensions, benefits, debt, residential tenancy, human rights, Indigenous legal issues, and more.

The Poverty Law Advocacy program provides free and confidential service to people with poverty-related legal issues including human rights, employment, debt and collections, and tenancy. Helps with appealing denials and applying for provincial and federal benefits of all kinds.

Free legal information, advocacy, and representation for low-income Sunshine Coast residents. They offer support, guidance, and — where possible — full client representation at hearings and tribunals for issues including income security and income assistance, tenancy issues, benefits, debt and consumer law, CRT, and human rights.

The Disability Law Clinic provides free legal advice to people with disabilities about human rights and discrimination. Issues include accommodations in the workplace; access to transportation; access to education; housing; and service animals. They can also provide advice to people having problems with their disability benefits.