There are community legal clinics across Ontario that give totally free legal help or tips to people who have low incomes. Self-help and community education delivered through workshops, phone aid lines, health-related/legal partnerships, on the net information and chat tools, and downloadable court types, that assist persons realize their rights and responsibilities, when legal assistance may well be necessary and where to find it, and get assistance with self-representation when important.

You may be eligible for free legal help from a court-appointed attorney or public defender if your liberty is threatened (in other words, you face going to jail.) A public defender is a lawyer who represents criminal defendants who are unable to afford an lawyer and the constitutional guarantees the appropriate to legal counsel in particular matters.

LSC encourages – and all non-LSC programs rely on – leveraging limited sources by partnering and collaborating with other public and private … Read the rest >>>