Law-Related Lessons

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These lessons on legal topics are designed for English language classes for newcomers to Canada and BC.

People's Law School has assembled the following Law Related ESL Lessons into a Clicklaw Wikibook for the benefit of adult ESL and ELSA Net instructors and their students. ELSA stands for English Language Services for Adults. The ELSA program provides basic and intermediate level English training for adult newcomers to Canada. ELSA is government-funded and is free to students.

How do I use this resource?

People's Law School has developed numerous lesson modules, each centered around a law related topic that could affect a newcomer to the province. Each lesson module is designed for instructors who work with newcomers, and contains general resources essential to the module (such as a booklet on each topic, and in some cases videos). Most lesson modules will also have one or more instructional package that vary based on Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level.

Instructors should familiarize themselves with the source material (especially the topical booklets from PLS upon which each module is based), and then explore the downloadable lesson plans, worksheets and assessment tools available in each instructional package, depending on the CLB they are teaching at.

Lesson modules

• Consumer Law
  • Consumer Law Wikibook  · Videos
  • Instructional Packages: CLB 5-6 Consumer Law Lesson #1
• Driving in BC
  • Driving in BC Wikibook  · Videos
  • Instructional Packages: CLB 5-6 Getting a Driver's Licence  · CLB 7-8 Safe Driving
• Elder Care
  • Elder Care Wikibook  · Videos
  • Instructional Packages: CLB 5-6 Elder Care Lesson #1  · CLB 7-8 Elder Care Lesson #2
• Fundamentals of the Law
  • Instructional Packages: CLB 4  · CLB 7-8

This list should contain all 15 topics as lesson modules eventually

About this wikibook

• Acknowledgements & credits
• Learn more about Clicklaw Wikibooks or visit other wikibooks from People's Law School

About People's Law School

The People’s Law School is a non-profit charitable society whose purpose is to provide British Columbians with reliable information about their rights and responsibilities under the law.

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The testing of the claims in a court proceeding at a formal hearing before a judge with the jurisdiction to hear the proceeding. The parties present their evidence and arguments to the judge, who then makes a decision resolving the parties' claims against one another that is final and binding on the parties unless successfully appealed. See "action," "appeal," "argument," "claim," "evidence" and "jurisdiction."

In law, the re-examination of a term of an order or agreement, usually to determine whether the term remains fair and appropriate in light of the circumstances prevailing at the time of the review. In family law, particularly the review of an order or agreement provided for the payment of spousal support. See "de novo," "family law agreements," "order" and "spousal support."

In law, an order of a court cancelling or changing an earlier order of the court. See "order."

In law, something that is relevant or important. A material fact, for example, is a fact relevant to a claim or a defence to a claim. See "claim," "evidence" and "fact."