Animal Law Clinic
The pro-bono animal law clinic is the first of its kind in Canada! It's a poverty law clinic run by Vancouver law students at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law to try to help animals and their humans access justice.
The newly launched clinic is part of LSLAP (Law Students’ Legal Advice Program), which is a non-profit legal advice program run by law students at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Along with the faculty and past animal law students, Victoria Shroff and Amber Prince, erstwhile adjunct professors of animal law at Allard, helped establish this groundbreaking animal law pro-bono clinic and are its consulting animal law lawyers along with the LSLAP supervising lawyer.
The Animal Law Clinic under LSLAP at Allard helps low-income individuals with their legal issues involving animals and animals’ interests, for example “dangerous dog” cases, human rights issues involving support animals or people charged with a crime when they are trying to help an animal (e.g. breaking a car window to save a dog, or trespassing to document conditions on a farm). There are numerous other situations that may fall within the clinic mandate. People who are interested can call the UBC LSLAP switchboard at 604-822-5791 to set up an appointment and see if students can potentially help them with their legal issue.
The newly launched clinic is part of LSLAP (Law Students’ Legal Advice Program), which is a non-profit legal advice program run by law students at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Along with the faculty and past animal law students, Victoria Shroff and Amber Prince, erstwhile adjunct professors of animal law at Allard, helped establish this groundbreaking animal law pro-bono clinic and are its consulting animal law lawyers along with the LSLAP supervising lawyer.
The Animal Law Clinic under LSLAP at Allard helps low-income individuals with their legal issues involving animals and animals’ interests, for example “dangerous dog” cases, human rights issues involving support animals or people charged with a crime when they are trying to help an animal (e.g. breaking a car window to save a dog, or trespassing to document conditions on a farm). There are numerous other situations that may fall within the clinic mandate. People who are interested can call the UBC LSLAP switchboard at 604-822-5791 to set up an appointment and see if students can potentially help them with their legal issue.