News from Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
6 news items
Community legal clinics to bring charter challenge to the Minimum Necessary Income Requirement
(Posted : October 15, 2009) - Do you have clients who are not able to sponsor their family members to Canada because their income is too low? A group of lawyers and community legal clinics are working together to bring a challenge to the income requirement and they need your help.
Murderer's second victim could be legal aid system
(Posted : November 29, 2007) - In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Avvy Go, director of the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, discusses the fallout from the Wills case, as the Ombudsman announces plans to investigate Legal Aid Ontario.
Chinese, Southeast Asian legal clinic celebrates 20 years of advocacy
(Posted : September 14, 2007) - As Toronto's Chinese population grew in the 1980s, so did conflicts among them with Canada's justice system, leading to the founding of the Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic in 1987.
Legal representation for human rights complainants may be missing in revamped system
(Posted : June 25, 2007) - The Ontario government is reforming its human rights system with Bill 107, abolishing the screening process and sending complainants straight to a tribunal. Avvy Go, director of the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, worries that many complainants will be without legal representation in the new system and fall into a "sort of la-la land, where nobody is going to help them."
Legal clinic director calls for increased funding for community legal clinics
(Posted : January 16, 2007) - In an opinion piece for the Toronto Star, Avvy Go, the clinic director at the Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic addresses the importance of community legal clinics and the problem of a chronically underfunded legal aid system in Ontario.
Legal clinic launches challenge to the low income cut off requirement
(Posted : October 25, 2006) - In order to give full and meaningful effect to family reunification under our immigration law, a number of immigrant and refugee advocacy groups, legal clinics and anti-poverty organizations are working together to launch a charter challenge to the Low Income Cut Off (LICO) provision. In order to achieve their goal, they need your support.