Local contacts and referral lists. Connects people to community, health, and government resources for help.
Call: 211Legal aid navigators are Legal Aid BC staff who can help clients to: answer…
Legal aid navigators are Legal Aid BC staff who can help clients to:
Legal aid navigators are available to help clients in several BC communities.
We provide legal aid services in English. If you can’t communicate with our…
We provide legal aid services in English. If you can’t communicate with our staff in English and can’t call us with someone who can interpret for you, we can arrange for an interpreter. Interpreters are available for more than 100 languages.
When you phone the Legal Aid BC Call Centre, you will first hear a recorded legal aid welcome message in English. You can also access the recorded message in six languages:
The messages explain that if you need services in languages other than English, you should tell the staff person who answers what language you speak so they can arrange immediate access to a telephone interpreter.
Access Pro Bono runs free legal advice clinics throughout the province. Call to make an appointment.
Contains information about free legal services available to people who can’t get legal aid or afford a lawyer. Includes a map to help people find legal clinics throughout Canada.
Volunteers provide free help with legal forms and appearances in various legal areas including housing, income support, aboriginal law, and transgender issues (name change, etc.).
Legal information and referrals
Supports women affected by violence to access housing and other services
Provides support and advocacy for women who have experienced abuse
Complaints against police, privacy and access to information, freedom of expression
Helps families and children entitled to maintenance (child support and spousal support) under maintenance orders or agreements.
Formerly called the BC Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP)
Free Legal Services To People With Provincial Human Rights Complaint
The BC Human Rights Tribunal is responsible for accepting, screening, mediating, and adjudicating human rights complaints.
Find BC notaries by language and location.
The BC Notaries Association represents highly trained professionals from across BC who provide legal services on a wide range of legal matters including real estate transfers, wills and advanced healthcare planning, powers of attorney, mortgage refinancing, and other important legal documents.
Provincial and territorial child support information
Local contacts and referral lists. Connects people to community, health, and government resources for help.
As an advocate on behalf of vulnerable children in BC, the Child and Youth Legal Centre provides free and confidential legal help for young people who are experiencing problems related to family law, child protection, human rights, and many other legal issues. The centre aims to ensure that the rights, interests, and points of view of children and youth are heard and respected. Services include:
The centre helps young people up to 19 years old, but if a legal problem started before they turned 19, it may still be able to help.
The Child and Youth Legal Centre is run by the Society for Children and Youth of BC.
Visit the centre at:
102 – 1678 W. Broadway Street
Vancouver, BC, V6J 1X6
Help with understanding child support guidelines and provide referals to other service providers
Provides links to legal information, education, and help for British Columbians on various topics including civil, criminal, family, tenancy, employment, and wills and estates planning.
Locate services and resources in your community who can help with legal problems.
Provides free legal assistance on loss of housing, human rights complaints, mental health law, accessing government benefits, work-related issues, and sexual assault.
Student run community legal clinic: housing, wills, small claims, consumer.
If you live in Kamloops, Thompson Rivers University’s Community Legal Clinic can provide you with free legal help and advice.
Pilot project launched February 2022
Free debt counselling
Transcripts of taped information written by lawyers, about various legal topics and your legal rights.
Free legal advice to people with disabilities about human rights and discrimination
Provides a Summary Advice and Referral Service which is a free, confidential legal service, directly to persons with disabilities across BC, on certain disability-related areas of law, including accessibility laws, discrimination and human rights, access to services, and accommodation in the workplace. Language interpretation services are available.
Programs that support women, youth, and children involved in, or affected by, the justice system. Includes help with understanding the court process.
This diverse team of professionals provides fixed-fee services in a wide range of areas covering everyday legal problems including civil disputes, employment and benefits, family law issues, residential tenancy, and wills and estates.
Help BC residents going through separation or divorce. Provides Family Justice Counsellors services to help families with parenting arrangements, contact with a child, guardianship, and support issues.
Help to find a legal advocate
Describes the services available at the Justice Access Centres in Abbotsford, Nanaimo, Surrey, Vancouver, and Victoria. Their staff provide legal help and information to people facing a separation or divorce.
Promotes Understanding & Access To The Legal System.
Community based services
Find resources for refugee claimants.
Advocates provide free legal information, advocacy, and assistance to low-income people in the community.
Lists: Poverty law advocacy, family law advocacy, specialized advocacy programs and legal clinics
A non-profit organization run by UBC law students, providing free legal advice and representation.
Information about free legal advice clinics offered by law students at the University of British Columbia, including their clinic solely for immigration and refugee legal issues. Also includes the LSLAP Manual of legal information.
Assists with summary criminal offences, bylaw, tenancy, traffic tickets, civil resolution (<$5000), ICBC driving prohibitions, EI, WorkSafe BC matters, wills and estates, immigration issues, drafting certain legal documents, and more.
Robson Square walk-in clinic: Room 143, 800 Hornby Street, Vancouver (Provincial Court of British Columbia)
Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Carnegie walk-in clinic: Carnegie Community Centre at 401 Main Street, Vancouver
Mon 10:30 am –1:00 pm, Tue 12:00 pm –3:00 pm, Thu 10:30 am –12:00 pm
Helps you find a lawyer to take your case. If you don’t know a lawyer who handles criminal cases, contact the Lawyer Referral Service to get the name of a local lawyer to talk to for 15 minutes for free. You can find out what they’d charge if you need more help and decide whether you want to hire them.
Toll-free Referral Phone Numbers for Legal Information and Advice (PDF).
A list of Province-wide sources of legal support services accessible by phone, and in some cases, in-person.
Resources when a client doesn’t qualify; Legal services and what areas of the law they cover.
A non-profit organization that provides free (pro bono) legal advocacy services to migrant workers in BC.
Culturally appropriate services for Indigenous people involved in the criminal justice system.
Current information about poverty issues in BC and Canada for advocates, community groups, and people on welfare. Lists community-based advocates around the province.
The West Coast Prison Justice Society operates Prisoners’ Legal Services, the only clinic in Canada that provides all prison-related legal aid (other than appeals) in its jurisdiction.
People in prison in British Columbia can access services by calling Prisoners’ Legal Services at 1-866-577-5245 (federal) or 604-636-0464 (provincial). Phone lines are open from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on weekdays. Lines are closed on Wednesday afternoons.
Ready Tours teach and support refugee claimants as they prepare for their refugee hearings. If you are a refugee claimant, you can sign up for a free online Ready Tour from anywhere in Canada. Settlement or community workers may also join a tour.
Provides Legal Services to Women Mainly in Family Law. Plus Other Supports
Law clinic with advocacy and advice for people age 55+
Information about services that are available through government agents, and a listing of the Service BC centres around the province.
Helps employers and workers learn about how to prevent and respond to workplace sexual harassment
The Society for Children and Youth of BC (SCY) is a provincial organization dedicated to improving the well-being of children and youth in British Columbia. It focuses on child and youth rights, child and youth friendly communities, and social justice.
SCY’s legal centre provides free legal support for young people who are experiencing problems relating to family law, child protection, a breach of human rights, and many other legal issues.
SOURCES runs a community law clinic in Surrey, BC. Sources is a not-for-profit society providing a wide variety of social wellness programs and services in the Lower Mainland, Northern BC, and on Vancouver Island.
The South Asian Legal Clinic of BC (SALCBC) focuses on issues affecting the daily lives of South Asian British Columbians, including legal issues around immigration status, child protection and custody, separation and divorce, domestic violence, sexual assault, racial discrimination and profiling, economic justice for workers, elder abuse, mental health, and wills and estates.
You can get a free 30-minute legal advice and summary session. You may also qualify for additional legal services.
Lawyers provide low-barrier and culturally sensitive legal support for South Asian families living on low incomes.
Legal advocate for povert law issues, serving residents of Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, Fort St John, Tumbler Ridge
Experienced Sexual Assault? Get Free Legal Advice. Free confidential legal advice to inform your decisions.
Lawyers provide up to 3 hours of free and confidential legal advice to anyone in British Columbia who has been sexually assaulted. A lawyer will explain your rights and the legal options available to you. If you need more time, your lawyer can request an additional 2 hours to assist you.
Free 30 minute legal advice for people with low incomes.
Client Line at 604-878-7400 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM or from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday (excluding holidays)
Free legal education and advocacy for BC tenants.
Provides Advice, Assistance & Representation For Those Who Cannot Afford A Lawyer.
If you live in Victoria, The Law Centre may be able to help you if you’re eligible and qualify financially.
Free legal advocacy services for people with income assistance, disability benefits, and tenancy issues
Provides legal advice to individuals who cannot otherwise afford to pay for legal services
Service to hire lawyers for dealing with parts of a legal matter.
With unbundling, your legal matter is broken down into parts. You choose which parts a lawyer helps with, and which parts you will do yourself. You get professional assistance where you need it most — at a cost you can afford.
Free legal help — Hazelton