A comprehensive list
of community legal centres may be found here.
Visit National Association
of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) for details
of community legal centres across Australia or call NACLC on 02 9264 9595.
You can also look up the «Community Advisory Services» section of the Yellow Pages for a list
of community legal centres.
You can also look up the «Community Advisory Services» section of the Yellow Pages for a list
of community legal centres.
For details
of community legal centres across Australia call the National Association
of Community Legal Centres on 02 9264 9595 or visit naclc.org.au.
If what you want out
of a Community Legal Centre is a flexible schedule with friendly full - time staff and legal work that is as varied as you want it to be, my experience with Prisoners» Legal Service is such that I would happily recommend it to anyone.
The tool has catalogued all Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) front - line services, the vast majority
of Community Legal Centre (CLC) services and common non-legal services.
Not exact matches
A Perth lawyer has come up with a novel approach that addresses two issues facing the law
community — a lack
of job opportunities for recent graduates and a funding shortfall for
community legal centres.
The partnership with core
communities and PLHA networks created an enabling environment which brought hidden
communities to the
centre stage and helped in addressing issues
of stigma, discrimination,
legal and ethical concerns.
Miranda takes Hayat to a free
community legal centre to see one
of the workers.
The National Association
of Community Legal Centres is the association of state and territory community legal centre organisations in A
Community Legal Centres is the association of state and territory community legal centre organisations in Austr
Legal Centres is the association
of state and territory
community legal centre organisations in A
community legal centre organisations in Austr
legal centre organisations in Australia.
The videos are being distributed through ASIC's MoneySmart social media channels, and a number
of other stakeholders, including financial counsellors,
community legal centres and Indigenous organisations are also promoting the campaign.
We're currently six people nationally, so the resources that we produce are really around education and then we try and work with intermediaries like financial counsellors and
community legal centres to give them the tools that they need to be able to run that kind
of education on the ground in
communities.
The Chapter on
Community Needs and Funding is, however, clearly directed at government and is largely a protest against planned Commonwealth cuts to community legal centre budgets of 30 per cent due
Community Needs and Funding is, however, clearly directed at government and is largely a protest against planned Commonwealth cuts to
community legal centre budgets of 30 per cent due
community legal centre budgets
of 30 per cent due in July.
Legal Aid Ontario: http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/ Industrial Accident Victims» Group of Ontario (IAVGO): http://www.iavgo.org/ Parkdale Community Legal Services: http://www.parkdalelegal.org/ Community Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP) at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp/ Downtown Legal Services (University of Toronto legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back t
Legal Aid Ontario: http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/ Industrial Accident Victims» Group
of Ontario (IAVGO): http://www.iavgo.org/ Parkdale
Community Legal Services: http://www.parkdalelegal.org/ Community Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP) at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp/ Downtown Legal Services (University of Toronto legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back t
Legal Services: http://www.parkdalelegal.org/
Community Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP) at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp/ Downtown Legal Services (University of Toronto legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back t
Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP) at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/clasp/ Downtown
Legal Services (University of Toronto legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back t
Legal Services (University
of Toronto
legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back t
legal clinic): http://www.dls.utoronto.ca/about.htm Income Security Advocacy
Centre: http://www.incomesecurity.org/ Advocacy
Centre for the Elderly: http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/index.htm Back to Top
That is what makes
community legal centres so special: you have the opportunity to learn and gain an insight into various types
of law and learn from different solicitors each session.
The Women's
Legal Service (WLS) is a community legal centre which offers free legal advice to women in the areas of family law and domestic violence
Legal Service (WLS) is a
community legal centre which offers free legal advice to women in the areas of family law and domestic violence
legal centre which offers free
legal advice to women in the areas of family law and domestic violence
legal advice to women in the areas
of family law and domestic violence (DV).
«Technology is not enough,» says Sarah Glassmeyer, director
of community development for the
Centre for Computer - Assisted
Legal Instruction in Chicago.
There are many roads to enhancing access to justice across Canada and I have been fortunate to travel several
of these via involvement with Manitoba organizations like
Legal Aid Manitoba,
Community Legal Education Association, Fort Garry Women's Resource
Centre and
Legal Help
Centre of Winnipeg.
The challenges facing small
communities in regards to
legal professionals arise from two primary trends; the aging
of the
legal profession as a whole and the preference among newly called lawyers to practice in urban
centres.
As a strategic thinker working at the intersection
of law, technology and access to justice, and based on my years
of experience being embedded in a
community legal centre, here are some ideas that seem to me, to have some potential for positive impact:
On November 17, 2017, the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy
Centre (BCPIAC), the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives — BC Office (CCPA - BC), the
Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), the Poverty and Human Rights
Centre, and West Coast Women's
Legal Education and Action Fund (West Coast LEAF) made submissions to the government in support
of a common vision for the BC Human Rights Commission (Commission).
The
centre has amassed support from a veritable who's who
of the Manitoba
legal community.
• The Edmonton
Community Legal Centre, which provides a variety of pro bono legal information and advice to people living with low inc
Legal Centre, which provides a variety
of pro bono
legal information and advice to people living with low inc
legal information and advice to people living with low incomes.
Executive Director Karen Dyck envisions the
Legal Help Centre as a place ``... to assist disadvantaged members of our community to access and exercise their legal and social rights.&r
Legal Help
Centre as a place ``... to assist disadvantaged members
of our
community to access and exercise their
legal and social rights.&r
legal and social rights.»
By offering full use
of the service at no cost to struggling
legal aid firms,
community law
centres and
legal aid campaign groups, Matrix Chambers is doing something unique to:
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change includes Asian
Community AIDS Services, Caregivers Action
Centre, Justicia for Migrant Workers,
Legal Assistance
of Windsor, Migrante - Ontario, No One Is Illegal - Toronto, Parkdale
Community Legal Services, Social Planning Toronto, South Asian
Legal Clinic
of Ontario, UNIFOR, United Food and Commercial Workers, and Workers Action
Centre.
The individual category finalists come from diverse areas
of the law, including education, family law,
community legal centres, and automation.
If we are to assume that this particular problem
of legal (in) capability is widespread amongst young people, the next question that maybe asked is, «why can't they go to their local
community law
centre to get help»?
The other winners were:
Legal Aid Newcomer — Tom Royston, Garden Court North;
Legal Aid Barrister — Philip Rule, No5 Chambers; Family Private (inc Mediation)-- Mary Shaw, David Gray Solicitors; Family Public — Sheila Donn, Philcox Gray Solicitors; Social & Welfare — Stuart Luke, Bhatia Best; Public Law — Keith Lomax, Minton Morrill Solicitors; Criminal Defence — Graeme Hydari, Hodge, Jones & Allen; Children's Rights — Solange Valdez - Symonds, Project for the Registration
of Children as British Citizens / Migrant Resource
Centre;
Legal Aid Firm / Not - for - profit Agency —
Community Law Partnership; and Access to Justice through IT — Advicenow, Law for Life.
Today, I spent time with a group
of self - representing women at a
community resource
centre talking about what they need to know when representing themselves in
legal processes.
We have also recently announced a tender for a
Community Legal Advice
centre (CLAC) in Barking and Dagenham, as well as a memorandum
of understanding with Manchester City Council for joint commissioning
of integrated services.
Karen Winton, Managing Parner Nest VC: «
Legal Geek's Law Tech Hackathon for Good with the Hackney Community Law Centre uncovered some unique and creative ideas that have the potential to transform the practise of law within the legal aid environment and greatly improve people's lives.&r
Legal Geek's Law Tech Hackathon for Good with the Hackney
Community Law
Centre uncovered some unique and creative ideas that have the potential to transform the practise
of law within the
legal aid environment and greatly improve people's lives.&r
legal aid environment and greatly improve people's lives.»
This weekend the UK's largest Law Tech
community, Legal Geek partnered with Hackney Community Law Centre, a charity which provides free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London borough of Hackney, to host Europe's first ever Charity LawTech Charity H
community,
Legal Geek partnered with Hackney Community Law Centre, a charity which provides free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London borough of Hackney, to host Europe's first ever Charity LawTech Charity Hacka
Legal Geek partnered with Hackney
Community Law Centre, a charity which provides free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London borough of Hackney, to host Europe's first ever Charity LawTech Charity H
Community Law
Centre, a charity which provides free and independent
legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London borough of Hackney, to host Europe's first ever Charity LawTech Charity Hacka
legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London borough
of Hackney, to host Europe's first ever Charity LawTech Charity Hackathon.
West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot
Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy
Centre, and
Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic
of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.
The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) includes Alliance
of South Asian Aid Prevention, Asian
Community Aids Services, Caregivers Action
Centre, Fuerza Puwersa, Industrial Accident Victims» Group
of Ontario, Justicia for Migrant Workers,
Legal Assistance
of Windsor, Migrante Ontario, No One Is Illegal — Toronto, Parkdale
Community Legal Services, Social Planning Toronto, South Asian
Legal Clinic
of Ontario, Unifor, United Food and Commercial Workers, Workers» Action
Centre and Workers United.
The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change includes individuals as well as Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention, Asian
Community Aids Services, Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support), Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization, Caregivers Action
Centre, Durham Region Migrant Solidarity Network, FCJ Refugee House, Fuerza Puwersa, GABRIELA Ontario, IAVGO
Community Legal Clinic, Income Security Advocacy
Centre, Justice for Migrant Workers, Migrante Ontario, No One Is Illegal — Toronto, Northumberland
Community Legal Centre, OCASI — Ontario Council
of Agencies Serving Immigrants, OHIP For All, PCLS
Community Legal Clinic, SALCO
Community Legal Clinic, Students Against Migrant Exploitation, Social Planning Toronto, UFCW, UNIFOR, Workers Action
Centre and Workers United.
Kevin Panton, Office
of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth Dr. Akua Benjamin, Ryerson University Sophia Brown Ramsay, Black
Community Action Network Dr. Jennifer Clarke, Ryerson University Everton Gordon, Jamaican Canadian Association / CAFCAN Leyland Gudge, Cleo
Community Services Consultancy Dr. Julian Hasford, Black
Community Action Network (Peel) Marlene Hyppolite, President, Samedi littéraire haïtiano canadien Kemi Jacobs, YENSOMU Delta Family Resource
Centre Mohamed Jama, Midyanta
Community Services Sipho Kwaku, Woodgreen
Community Services Dr. Howard McCurdy, Independent Sonia Mills - Minster, MSc, Psych., ICCDPD, Millan & Associates Margaret Parsons, Executive Director, African Canadian
Legal Clinic Zakiya Tafari, Ukima House / Young and Potential Fathers Jamea Zuberi, Educator
Project Description This article briefly describes the Multicultural Family Law (MFL) Facilitators project developed by United Cultures
of Canada Association, Family Law Office (
Legal Aid Alberta) and ASSIST
Community Services
Centre with financial assistance provided by the City
of Edmonton —
Community Services.
Amnesty International Canada, Jacqueline Hansen, (613) 851-5436 Atira Housing, Janice Abbott, (604) 331-1420 Battered Women's Support Services, Angela Marie MacDougall, (604) 808-0507 BC Assembly
of First Nations, Regional Chief Shane Gottfriedson, (250) 318-8527 BC Civil Liberties Association, Josh Paterson, (778) 829-8973 Butterflies in Spirit, Lorelei Williams, (778) 709-6498 Carrier Sekani Family Services, Mary Teegee, (250) 612-8710 Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, Tribal Chief Terry Teegee, (250) 640-3256 Downtown Eastside Women's
Centre, Alice Kendall, (604) 681-8480 February 14th Women's Memorial March Committee, Evelyn Youngchief, (778) 888-1687 First Nations Summit, Cheryl Casimer, (778) 875-2157 First United Church, Genesa Greening, (604) 681-8365 Lookout Emergency Aid Society, Shayne Williams, (604) 255-0340 Michele Pineault, family member,
[email protected] Neskonlith Indian Band, Kukpi7 Judy Wilson, (250) 319-7383 PHS
Community Services Society, Patrick Smith, (604) 779-6837 Pivot
Legal Society, Brenda Belak, (604) 537-0680 Poverty and Human Rights
Centre, Shelagh Day, (604) 872-0750 RainCity Housing, Amelia Ridgway, (604) 662-7023 Spirit
of the Children Society, Christina Coad, (604) 679-4631 Union
of B.C. Indian Chiefs, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, (250) 490-5314 Vancouver Council
of Women, Rosemary Mallory, (604) 985-0878 Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, Keira Smith - Tague, (604) 872-8212 West Coast LEAF, Kasari Govender, (604) 684-8772 ext. 212 WISH Drop - in
Centre Society, Mebrat Beyene, (604) 669-9474 WAVAW Rape Crisis
Centre, Irene Tsepnopoulous - Elhaimer, (604) 255-6228 ext 229
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.
ASSIST
Community Service
Centre is pleased to announce that they have invited The Edmonton
Community Legal Centre (ECLC) to provide free legal information services to low - income individuals and / or families in the areas of civil claims (small cla
Legal Centre (ECLC) to provide free
legal information services to low - income individuals and / or families in the areas of civil claims (small cla
legal information services to low - income individuals and / or families in the areas
of civil claims (small claims).
The Human Rights
Legal Support Centre provides legal assistance to people in communities across Ontario who have experienced discrimination contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code and who may want to file an application to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ont
Legal Support
Centre provides
legal assistance to people in communities across Ontario who have experienced discrimination contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code and who may want to file an application to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ont
legal assistance to people in
communities across Ontario who have experienced discrimination contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code and who may want to file an application to the Human Rights Tribunal
of Ontario.
However, we join with the Workers Action
Centre and Parkdale
Community Legal Services in calling for amendments to Bill 148 to ensure it can close the gaps and raise the floor
of minimum standards for the highest possible number
of workers in Ontario.
The major tests for ORBIT will be its integration with the
community legal centres and the extent to which it will work seamlessly in practice, potentially integrating a further range
of non-
legal agencies.
The My Rights app was designed by a team
of students from the University
of Melbourne Law School in partnership with Youthlaw, a specialist
community legal centre that represents children and young people under 25 years
of age in Victoria.
The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change also fully supports the recommendations and amendments put forward in the submissions by: the Workers» Action
Centre, Parkdale
Community Legal Services, and the Ontario Federation
of Labour as part
of the Fight for $ 15 and Fairness.
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Community Fund Entrepreneurs» Organization Eureka Project Innovate Manitoba Kiwanis Top Cop
Community Volunteer Manitoba Chamber
of Commerce Manitoba Bar Association MBA Women Lawyers» Forum Law Day
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of Winnipeg VA Angels Western Canadian Aviation Museum Winnipeg Police Association Women in Mining World Trade
Centre Winnipeg (Centrallia and EU Market Access Program) Yes!
Receiving
legal submissions from the Ministry
of the Attorney General, the Ministry
of Community Safety and Correctional Services, the Criminal Lawyers» Association, the University
of Toronto's David Asper
Centre for Constitutional Rights, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Visitors to this blog who are in need
of legal advice shall contact a lawyer or a
Community Law
Centre.