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Dec, 2024
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Sep, 2024
More Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead
More Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead: We need a compassionate, properly resourced mental health system.
Kevin Love in The Tyee
The number of people being detained under B.C.’s Mental Health Act has increased dramatically over the last two […]
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Sep, 2024
Stand Informed-Intimate Images Legal Advice pilot project: A New, Free Legal Advice Service if Your Private Photos or Videos were Shared Without Your Permission in British Columbia.
By Aditi Master, Lawyer, and Angela Leung, Coordinator, Stand Informed Legal Advice Service, Community Legal Assistance Society.
Today, taking photos or videos and sharing them with family, friends and intimate partners is as easy as pressing a button on your phone. Every […]
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Mar, 2024
What are NDAs? A Client’s Perspective
Note: this is a fictionalized blog post for educational purposes. This blog refers to sexual harassment and assault and may be triggering.
Before I was harassed at work, I didn’t know much about non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). I remember #MeToo stories about […]
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Mar, 2024
SHARP Workplaces Clinic Farewell
The Sexual Harassment Advice, Response, and Prevention for Workplaces Legal Advice Clinic (SHARP Workplaces Legal Clinic), operated by the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), has been honored to provide free legal advice to anyone who has experienced workplace sexual harassment […]
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Jan, 2024
Judge Overturns Unprecedented Human Rights Decision
A decision awarding $150,000 in damages for discrimination to an Indigenous mom whose children were taken from her and put in foster care has been overturned by a B.C. judge.
B.C. judge overturns ‘unprecedented’ human rights decision – CTVNews
“It’s important for […]
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Jan, 2024
Changes to the Residential Tenancy Act Erode the Dignity of Tenants in Supportive Housing
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, B.C., January 19, 2024
Yesterday, the provincial government announced that supportive housing providers would be exempt from certain provisions of the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) that previously restricted their ability to impose guest restrictions and enter tenants’ suites […]
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Dec, 2023
CLAS Newsletter
The Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) in 2023 released our newsletter “CLAS Action”.
- CLAS Action Volume III – November 2023
- CLAS Action Volume II – July 2023
- CLAS Action Volume I – May 2023
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Oct, 2023
New free legal service provides help for anyone in British Columbia who has experienced sexual assault
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
A new program that provides free legal advice to anyone who has experienced sexual assault in B.C. launches today. Stand Informed legal advice services are offered by Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), a not-for-profit society that […]
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Oct, 2023
Stand Informed: New Free Legal Advice Service if You Experienced Sexual Assault in British Columbia
By Coral Lyster, Lawyer, Stand Informed
Have you experienced sexual assault in British Columbia? Do you want to know what your legal options are? You could get free legal advice from Community Legal Assistance Society’s (“CLAS”) new service, Stand Informed. Stand Informed […]