Find organizations that provide legal help in BC. Most services are free or low cost.
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.
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.
Provides legal assistance, advice, and representation to low-income and vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside. The advocates provide a broad spectrum of legal advocacy services but mainly focus on tenancy and social assistance issues.
Legal advocate for people facing poverty law issues. They provide information, advocacy, and referrals on issues including income security, housing, debts and collections, and family law information and referrals. The advocate is not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice.
Provides basic information on poverty law and policy, and on potential next steps, so that people can make an informed choice when they face a problem. Issues covered include welfare, tenant information, EI, Canada Pension Plan disability, and more. They offer referrals for other issues. Please note, they don't give legal advice.
Provides legal advocacy services to people with low incomes who need legal information, advice, or representation on a wide range of legal problems such as income security, housing, disabilities, violence, and debt. It also provides public legal education and support for community organizations wishing to help clients with legal problems.
Provides legal information services to the public via a network of libraries in BC courthouses. You’re encouraged to call or email before visiting as they can provide many services this way and can save you time. The libraries provide access to staff expertise, print and digital legal collections, and public computers.
Provides legal advocacy to low-income residents in Campbell River and the surrounding area. They can help with disability benefits, seniors’ benefits, residential tenancy disputes, and consumer debt issues. Volunteer lawyers are available, by appointment only, to people who can’t afford a lawyer.
Free legal advice and representation on issues such as criminal summary offences, civil resolution, small claims, residential tenancy, WorkSafeBC, consumer protection, EI, CPP and Old-Age Pension, wills and estates, and immigration and refugee issues. They may draft certain types of legal documents such as demand letters, wills, and more.
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