These decisions were made after public hearings which included submissions
by community legal clinics on behalf of their clients and on behalf of injured worker organizations.
Examples of Medical - Legal Partnership Models, Presented at Association
of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario Conference - May 2015
Similarly, the establishment of Ontario's legal aid plan in 1967 and the steady growth in
community legal clinics in the 70s, including law school clinic programs with a special connection to the work of the Provincial Courts, were powerful forces inevitably leading to a more transparent court.
The McCamus Report is generally acknowledged to have served as the foundation of the Legal Aid Services Act (1998), and which sets the framework for the current
community legal clinic system in Ontario.
Family members, staff of
IAVGO Community Legal Clinic and activists with Justicia for Migrant Workers intervened to help the workers remain in Ontario for their desperately needed medical treatment.
UBC
Indigenous Community Legal Clinic - Specific areas of assistance: Will Creation, Will Search, Letters of Administration, Powers of Attorney, and Representation Agreements.
During law school, Bayly worked at the University of
Ottawa Community Legal Clinic in the Women's Division, where she assisted women who had experienced sexual violence in their applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.
Ontario's 70 law centres, known
as community legal clinics and the best funded such network in the world, feel particularly vulnerable.
Ben has dedicated his career to the problems of homelessness and low - income housing, articling with Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, serving as duty counsel at the Landlord and Tenant Board, and practicing as a staff lawyer in four
other community legal clinics between Hamilton and downtown Toronto.
The Central Alberta
Community Legal Clinic offers free legal advice appointments to help you understand your rights, obligations and steps to resolve your legal issue, in the following areas of law:
Landlord's Self - Help Centre is a non-profit
community legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario and mandated to support Ontario's small - scale landlord community exclusively.
Guthrie Award winners have many different legal backgrounds, varying
from community legal clinics, the judiciary and non-profit organizations.
IAVGO
Community Legal Clinic asked the WSIB to make their formularies public in 2013 so that injured workers and their doctors would know what limited medication the WSIB will cover.
Ann McRae, Director of Legal Services at
Rexdale Community Legal Clinic, adds, «In the best tradition of legal aid clinics, Grace has used her experience «in the trenches» to foster community development.
Community Legal Clinics across Ontario are engaged in projects to improve client services, tackle access to justice issues in their communities and streamline operations.
Websites Legal Aid Ontario
Toronto Community Legal Clinics Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)-- publish legal information pamphlets on various areas of law CLEOnet — a website for sharing legal education materials; can be searched by topic Lawyer Referral Service Community and Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) Downtown Legal Services (DLS) Toronto 211 — an online directory of community, social, health, and government services available in Toronto
«The «clinic resource office» is on the hit list as Legal Aid Ontario makes major service cuts,
which community legal clinics fear will curb their ability to serve the needy.
The project was initiated and provided research assistance by Injured Workers» Consultants, the
Sudbury Community Legal Clinic, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, the Income Security Advocacy Centre and the Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy.
Injured Workers» Consultants (IWC)
Community Legal Clinic estimates almost 82,000 people since 2007 have been «deemed» to have jobs without actually being employed.
I am proud to belong to a movement of
community legal clinics supporting resistance against dominance and colonialism, in ways made necessary by profession's traditional representation of the powerful against the weak.
Clinics such as Calgary Legal Guidance and the
Edmonton Community Legal Clinic provide assistance to people who can not afford a lawyer, but do not qualify for Legal Aid.
The Legal Health Check - Up Project developed by the
Halton Community Legal Clinic has been running for about three months through the early phase of implementation, monitoring and course correction.
All three offices of the Northwest
Community Legal Clinic stock pamphlets on a variety of subjects within our mandate, as well as referral information for certain areas of law.
The ONIWG & IAVGO
Community Legal Clinic Factum addresses, with reference to Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, the duty of workers» compensation boards to fulfill what should be one of their key responsibilities: ensuring that injured workers» human rights are respected at a crucial and vulnerable time as they return to work.
The Thompson Rivers
University Community Legal Clinic (TRU CLC) opened a new space in downtown Kamloops Thursday that offers expanded hours to better serve clients in need.