Student Legal Aid Clinics to Offer More Services

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

More funding has been announced for Ontario’s Student Legal Aid Clinics. Student Legal Aid Service Societies allow students to provide legal services under the supervision of a lawyer. Their services are available to eligible low-income individuals.

The clinics plan to use the funding in the following ways:

  • Community and Legal Aid Services Program at York University’s Osgoode Hall will begin offering employment law services and increase the hours of existing staff.
  • Community Legal Aid at the University of Windsor will begin offering consumer law services and expand its existing employment law services.
  • Community Legal Services at London’s University of Western Ontario will take on more criminal and housing law cases.
  • Downtown Legal Services at the University of Toronto will expand its housing law services and launch a new employment law division.
  • Queen’s Legal Aid at Kingston’s Queen’s University will hire another lawyer to expand all its services.
  • The Community Legal Clinic at the University of Ottawa will expand its bilingual housing law services.
  • Lakehead University in Thunder Bay is in the process of establishing Lakehead Legal Services. 

You can find more information on low-cost or free legal services in the Legal Aid and Community Clinics section of Settlement.Org.

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