LSLAP IS A POVERTY LAW CLINIC:
If you can afford legal help from any other avenue, please consult them instead.
If you can afford legal help from any other avenue, please consult them instead.
LSLAP assists low-income earners who live the Greater Vancouver Area with various legal issues, including:
- Criminal (only summary offences where the Crown is not seeking jail time);
- Civil Resolution (must be a civil claim under $5,000)
- Small Claims (must be a civil claim under $25,000, $35,000 if filed after June 1st, 2017);
- Employment Standards;
- Residential Tenancy;
- WCB;
- Consumer Protection;
- Employment Insurance;
- CPP and Old-Age Pension;
- Wills and Estates; and
- Immigration and Refugee
- Small Claims Court;
- Criminal Court;
- Welfare Appeals;
- Residential Tenancy Branch Arbitrations;
- Employment Standards Board; and
- Immigration and Refugee Hearings
- Demand Letters;
- Wills (if total value of estate is under $25,000);
- Powers of Attorney;
- Representation Agreements and Advanced Directives; and,
- Notice of Claims and Replies.
You should also be aware that there are certain problems that LSLAP CANNOT assist with, including:
- Family Law issues, including divorce;
- Any issues relating to ICBC
- Business and Commercial Law;
- Land/Property matters, including those with regard to wills and estates;
- Strata Matters;
- Personal injury law suits;
- Union issues;
- Probate or administrative matters related to wills;
- Impaired driving charges or traffic offences;
- Criminal offences which are indictable, or criminal charges where the Crown has chosen to proceed by way of indictment;
- Summary conviction (non-indictable) criminal charges where a jail sentence is likely, or where the Crown is seeking a jail sentence;
- Criminal offences in youth court;
- Matters requiring appearances in or applications to a Superior level court (the BC Supreme Court, the BC Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada).
- Complaints against lawyers;
- Complaints against doctors;
- Complaints against government;
- Complaints against educational institutions that have not exhausted all internal avenues of relief; and,
- Defamation