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Funding for Community Legal Clinics Cut!
The provincial government has slashed funding to Legal Aid Ontario! The budget presented on April 11, 2019 cut the province’s contribution to Legal Aid Ontario by 35%, retroactive to April 1st. Legal Aid Ontario has announced that it will therefore cut the budget for community legal clinics by $15 Million – a 16% reduction.
Read moreHelp for Injured Workers
As previously announced, we are assisting Peel and Dufferin clients of IAVGO (the Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario). IAVGO helps injured workers across Ontario with their workers’ compensation cases. However, IAVGO is located in Toronto and the trip downtown can be difficult for an injured worker. We provide a video link to IAVGO,
Read morePartnership with Canadian Mental Health Association
We are delighted to begin a partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association – Peel, Dufferin. Starting on September 13th, 2018, we will begin a bi-weekly legal clinic at the CMHA office in Brampton from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. We will be meeting with CMHA clients. This is a pilot project,
Read moreHelp With Employment Law Now Available!
Our legal clinic is now helping clients with employment law problems! Are you having problems collecting Employment Insurance? Were you fired from your job and you are wondering if the rules were followed? Is your employer paying you for overtime? Contact us to speak with our employment law lawyers. We can help with:
• Employment Standards Act.
Our Legal Clinic Highlighted on Law & Technology Website
The Law, Technology and Access to Justice website is an internationally renowned law and technology website. That website has just posted an article on our community legal clinic’s use of video technology to better serve our clients: https://law-tech-a2j.org/video/in-praise-of-video-in-a-legal-clinic/
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