Legal Aid

Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial. This article describes the development of legal aid and its principles, primarily as known in Europe, the Commonwealth of Nations and in the United States. Legal aid is essential to guaranteeing equal access to justice for all, as provided for by Article 6.3 of the European Convention on Human Rights …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …

without legal status, as well as the provision of legal aid to help address their precarious situations. Just


Office of the Ombudsperson, Province of British Columbia · 19 September 2024 English

Authority Statistics- FY24.xlsx Office of the Ombudsperson 2023/24 Authority Statistics Open Files as Files Received Files Closed Open Files as of 1-April- of 31-March- 2023 Enquiries Complaints Total Enquiries Complaints …

Land Title and Survey Authority 1 2 1 3 2 2 4 0 Legal Aid BC 1 3 9 12 3 8 11 0 Mental Health Review Board


EVA: Ending Violence Association of BC · 17 September 2024 English

Untitled ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 WHO WE ARE Resilience Then and Now As we began to face the pandemic and its unprecedented challenges in March 2020, the Ending Violence Association of …

includes not only our Vancouver-based office, but Legal Aid BC Call Centre extends to the work sites occupied


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English

Pakistan has been a priority country for international development assistance since the early years of its creation. Though Pakistan celebrates National Women’s Day on 12 February each year to commemorate …

advocate heading the Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid organization, in an interview in the Express honour crimes. Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (lhrla) had been a grant recipient of cida’s


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 3 September 2024 English

A scathing critique of the colonial legal system’s denial of children’s rights One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On the other end of the line …

find her free criminal legal representation. Legal Aid Saskatchewan had not chosen to represent her


CELA: Canadian Environmental Law Association · 30 August 2024 English

Submission by the Canadian Environmental Law Association to the Canadian Nuclear Safety 1500 no ISBN assigned Commission Regarding the Regulatory Oversight Report on the Use of Nuclear Substances in Canada: …

Environmental Law Association is a legal aid clinic and acknowledges support of Legal Aid Ontario for the funding $20.00 314. Submission from CELA to the Ontario Legal Aid Review. M. Swenarchuk, March 1997 M. Swenarchuk 978-1-77189-590-3 Submission to Legal Aid Committee of the CBAO Regarding Group Legal Aid Certificate. S. Shrybman Recommendations of CELA to the Task Force on Legal Aid for the Province of Ontario. C.C. Lax, J.F. Castrilli


ACWS: Alberta Council of Women's Shelters · 30 August 2024 English

A failure to recognize trauma exposure in survivors has the potential to rupture the working alliance and contribute to feelings of invalidation and self-blame. [...] • Social workers respect the …

Jill Davies, Deputy Director of Greater Hartford Legal Aid 63 Case Management Foundations Workbook Alberta


ACWS: Alberta Council of Women's Shelters · 29 August 2024 English

Case Management is an evolving practice and the ongoing input and feedback from ACWS members, both individually and collectively, has made and will continue to make this course relevant for, …

Jill Davies, Deputy Director of Greater Hartford Legal Aid 10 Case Management Foundations Workbook Module


ICCLR: International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy · 31 July 2024 English

The project’s objective is to instigate and support a systemic and cultural change in the way that the best interests of the child are considered by defence counsel, the prosecution …

Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver  Legal Aid BC  Retired judges of the Ontario Court of Justice some valuable insights within the data held by Legal Aid BC, or within data which might be collected in counsel o Corrections (federal and provincial) o Legal Aid 13 o Major Indigenous-serving justice organizations criminal justice sectors (police, crown, 17 defence/legal aid, judiciary, corrections, Indigenous-serving organizations)


BCLI: British Columbia Law Institute · 23 July 2024 English

REPORT ON PARENTAGE: A Review of Parentage under Part 3 of the Family Law Act JUNE 2024 Report on Parentage: A Review of Part 3 of the Family Law Act …

donation by sexual intercourse, parentage 794. Legal Aid BC, “What is independent legal advice?” (last ca/bc-legal-system/legal-help/legal-advice-and-legal-aid/what- independent-legal-advice> [archive.ph/G8EwJ] ca/bc-legal-system/legal-help/legal-advice-and-legal-aid/what-independent-legal-advice https://family.legalaid ca/bc-legal-system/legal-help/legal-advice-and-legal-aid/what-independent-legal-advice https://archive


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