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Student Legal Aid Services Societies (SLASS) operate out of Ontario's seven law schools [8] and provide legal advice and representation on matters such as criminal law, tenant issues, employee rights and small claims court. These legal clinics offer law students practical training and experience under the supervision of lawyers.
The Law Union of Ontario is a coalition of over 200 progressive lawyers, law students and legal workers. The Law Union provides for an alternative bar in Ontario which seeks to counter the traditional protections afforded by the legal system to social, political and economic privilege. By demystifying legal procedures, attacking discriminatory ...
The Law Society Tribunal is an independent adjudicative tribunal within the Law Society of Ontario that processes, hears and decides regulatory cases about Ontario lawyers and paralegals. [30] It began operations on March 12, 2014. [31] Effective November 16, 2020, Malcolm M. Mercer became the chair of the Law Society Tribunal. [32]
The Faculty, in conjunction with Legal Aid Ontario, runs a community legal clinic in downtown Windsor called Legal Assistance of Windsor. The clinic is staffed by lawyers, social workers, law students, and social work students, and aims to meet the legal needs of persons traditionally denied access to justice.
It is a voluntary association for legal members, whereas the regulatory body for lawyers in the province is under the Law Society of Ontario. An essential ally and advocate for members of the legal profession, the organization promotes fair justice systems, facilitates effective law reform, upholds equality in the legal profession and is ...
Lakehead University, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law: Ontario (Thunder Bay) 2013 McGill University, Faculty of Law: Quebec 1968 Queen's University, Faculty of Law: Ontario 1957 Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law: British Columbia 2011 Toronto Metropolitan University, Lincoln Alexander School of Law: Ontario 2019
Pro bono publico (English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term traditionally referred to provision of legal services by legal professionals for people who are unable to afford them.
The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, branded as Western Law since 2011, [2] is the law school of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.Founded in 1959, its first Dean was former Supreme Court of Canada justice, the Honourable Ivan Cleveland Rand, who saw the school as developing "in the minds of its students the habit of thinking in terms of the dynamic tradition, in the ...