“ Short-changing legal aid is a false economy since the costs of unresolved problems are shifted to other government departments in terms of more spending on social and health services, the cost of caring for children in state custody, and We have progressive family laws in so on. [...] People fleeing violence have to make decisions There are long-term economic about what they can consequences of going deep into debt sacrifice in order to pay to pay for a lawyer or having to use up for a lawyer and your savings. [...] There is often the assumption self-help portals and that it is in the best interests of other public legal Due to shortages of legal the child to continue to see the education materials, but aid lawyers, there often isn’t abusive parent. [...] Legal Council of Canadians with Positive steps Context Disabilities v BC • Definition of family This appeal is about the ability violence clarified in of public interest organizations the Family Law Act, – like West Coast LEAF – to Residential Tenancy challenge the constitutionality Act, and Employment In Colucci v Colucci and of laws on behalf of those most Standards Act so that Michel v Graydon. [...] These shifts suggest a These decisions demonstrate Without public interest growing awareness of a shift in the way the organizations representing the needs of survivors courts are approaching the their interests, cases like Single and reducing barriers to feminization of poverty Mothers’ Alliance v BC cannot safety.
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