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A guide for non-legal professionals in British Columbia to learn where to direct clients when legal problems occur. It can also be used directly by those seeking assistance with their legal problem.   
A guide for non-legal professionals in British Columbia to learn where to direct clients when legal problems occur. It can also be used directly by those seeking assistance with their legal problem.   

Revision as of 13:21, 31 March 2013

Legal Help for British Columbians
Cover of Legal Help for British Columbians
This is a Clicklaw Wikibook, a collaborative, plain language legal publication that is updated as a wiki and can be printed or downloaded.
Download the full Guide in PDF (current to November 2011).


A guide for non-legal professionals in British Columbia to learn where to direct clients when legal problems occur. It can also be used directly by those seeking assistance with their legal problem.

Contents[edit]

Getting Started[edit]

Common Legal Problems[edit]

Resource List[edit]

Preparing for Your Interview[edit]

  • A sample form to help you prepare for meetings with a lawyer or an advocate

About this Guide[edit]

This Guide was the first "Clicklaw Wikibook", which feature a free, accessible online resource (the wiki version of the publication) that is also used to produce a printed book. Learn more about Clicklaw Wikibooks.

Leading the writing of this Guide is founding author Cliff Thorstenson, who works a team of lawyers and editors in updating the Guide on this wiki.

Launch of the Guide as a Clicklaw Wikibook[edit]

This Guide was launched as an online resource in March 2012 as the first Clicklaw wikibook:

Creative Commons[edit]

Creative Commons Licence

Legal Help for British Columbians by Courthouse Libraries BC and Cliff Thorstenson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit Courthouse Libraries BC and Cliff Thorstenson and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Additional Resources[edit]

Find additional plain language, practical legal information on Clicklaw.

Find law-related help on the Clicklaw HelpMap.

A person licensed to practice law in a particular jurisdiction by that jurisdiction's law society. See "barrister and solicitor."

(1) A lawyer or a person other than a lawyer who helps clients with legal issues, or (2) to argue a position on behalf of someone.

In family law, a legal document in which a person gives up a right or a claim, or the entitlement to enforce a right or advance a claim; a waiver. Releases are usually signed following the settlement of a court proceeding or legal dispute. See "action" and "claim."

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