We're a non-profit community legal clinic serving low income residents of Hamilton. In addition, to providing ‘traditional” poverty law services including legal advice & referrals and legal representation, the Clinic is involved in public legal education, community development and law reform.
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Hamilton Community Legal Clinic was launched on April 1, 2010. Our not-for-profit organization is an amalgamation of the three independent community legal clinics that had been operating in the City for over thirty years, Dundurn Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and McQuesten Legal & Community Services. The clinics merged so they could provide legal services to more low income Hamilton residents. Also in 2010, the Clinic and the Centre de santé communautaire Hamilton/Niagara (CSCH/N) reached an agreement for the delivery of French language poverty law services in Hamilton. The Clinic is bilingual and has a French language team. With the support of the CSCH/N we do outreach to stay connected with the Francophone community in Hamilton. The clinic is run by a volunteer board of directors and we are funded by Legal Aid Ontario. All help is private and confidential.
Mission: Hamilton Community Legal Clinic is a community based not for profit agency whose diverse team of caring professionals and volunteers provides legal services to low income individuals and communities to promote access to justice and to improve quality of life. We do this through: summary advice and referral, representation, community development, law reform and public legal education Our Vision Hamilton Community Legal Clinic will be recognized and valued as an important provider of poverty law services and advocate for social change.
We have some great live-streams coming up tomorrow!
At 2PM we will be going live with Mohamad Bsat and Katie Remington to talk about the clinic’s Queer Justice Project
At 7pm the Queer Justice project with also go live with @speqtrumYHM on Instagram!
" I see it every day in my work—the inability to see the humanity in Black people, to see us as equals. It’s not just police brutality, but inequity in education, employment, housing and health. And, of course, they’re all connected."
https://torontolife.com/city/the-world-is-now-seeing-the-racism-that-black-people-experience-all-the-time-the-black-legal-action-centres-ruth-goba-on-the-legal-struggles-affecting-black-torontonians/?fbclid=IwAR38zu2mI1Fh8XCSIjLoiIMFEoy0KnZ0gkg7FSQn7auk_ycmxdlDCmAfaTc
"I see it every day in my work—the inability to see the humanity in Black people. It’s not just police brutality, but inequity in education, employment, housing and health."
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
This week on our “Ask A Lawyer” series we will be talking to Mohamad Bsat about the clinic’s Queer Justice Project!
Tune in this Thursday at 2pm!
5 Podcasts at the Intersection of Pride Month and the Black Lives Matter Movement
This June has restored the spirit of protest to Pride celebrations. Here are shows to help you understand the moment.
Pride report reveals 'frightening' issues with Hamilton police, says Mac expert on hate groups | CBC News
The recommendations in an independent review of Hamilton Police Service's conduct at the 2019 Pride festival don't go far enough to address what seems to be deep cultural issues with the service, says a McMaster University expert.
Mouna Bilè, HCLC’s lead for Together We Rise, access to justice for the Black community
Evelyn Myrie unstoppable! #BlackLivesMatter
WARNING: this is a very disturbing, triggering video – you will witness an officer running, and attacking Chief Allan Adam while another officer is standing right beside him.
Here is part of the bigger problem that no one is talking about in Canada as stated nicely by well-known and respected, local wisdom keeper, knowledge keeper, ceremonial conductor, healer Nancy Rowe
“ Chiefs (legally and politically) represent sovereign lands. The same as a premier or prime minister in canada. If a sovereign was attacked by another country’s state police this would be an act of terrorism and may invoke war. Let that sink in. But because, nope no racism in canada, it’s just an assault on an Indian. AND the determination of justice will be delivered in the colonizer court. (Google: Colten Boushie, Tina Fontaine, Jon Styres). In my opinion this should be tried in an international court..”
RCMP dashcam footage of the March arrest of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam shows an arriving officer jump-tackling the chief to the ground without warning, punching him in the head and putting him in a chokehold.
Beverley K. Jacobs is a Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) community representative from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Bear Clan. An attorney, she became president of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), serving 2004-2009, and is best known for her work in advocating for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and seeking changes to policing and the justice system to better serve Indigenous peoples. Beverly is a law professor at the University of Windsor.
IMPORTANT NOTICE for Federal Indian Day School Survivors - DO NOT RUSH your application - TAKE YOUR TIME to construct your narrative and HAVE YOUR SUPPORT systems in place
After June 15, survivors of Indian day schools will no longer be allowed to resubmit or modify the level of compensation they're seeking under the legal settlement for harms suffered while attending the federally operated schools.
A message from our friends and colleagues in Scarborough Community Legal Clinic Services
HCLC’s Queer Justice Project is hosting a live information session on Instagram with speqtrum Hamilton
Follow them on Instagram: https://instagram.com/queer_justice_project_hamilton?igshid=b2upwhwu8141
TW: Sexual harassment
Legal clinics across the province are conducting a survey to understand what kind of legal information victims of sexual harassment at work require.
You can find the survey here:
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Ask a Lawyer with Sharon Crowe and David Cheng
Join us as we talk about the Hamilton Legal Outreach Initiative! Feel free to comment along and send in questions!
Join us today at 2:15 as we talk to Sharon Crowe and David Cheng! We will be discussing the clinic’s Hamilton Legal Outreach program!. WE ARE STARTING AT 2:15 DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ! THANK YOU !
The Hamilton Community Legal Clinic will be closed on Monday June 22nd in honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day!
IMPORTANT NOTICE for Indian Day School Survivors
Mouna Bile, the Black Justice Coordinator at the HCLC joins the Scott Thompson Show and discusses the ways in which we can address racism.
Check it out:
https://omny.fm/shows/scott-thompson-show/fighting-racism-in-hamilton-the-call-to-defund-the
The Scott Thompson Show The charges against Derek Chauvin were upgraded, and the four other officers involved are now charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Producer and Correspondent with Global Ne...
Tune in this week as we continue our “Ask a Lawyer livestream” with Sharon Crowe! We will be discussing human rights and income assistance during #COVID19
No hate in the Hammer!
The report includes a timeline of how events unfolded on the day of the violent Pride confrontation.
Support Legal Aid Services by and for the Community:
Your Voice Needed!
Ontario’s Standing Committee on Justice Policy is reviewing Bill 161, containing the new Legal Aid Services Act. The law determines if legal aid services are delivered in this province and who decides what those services look like.
The Bill eliminates fundamental obligations to meet the needs of marginalized people. The Committee needs to hear that you oppose these regressive reforms.
Demand the following changes to the draft Bill:
1. Reinstate “access to justice” for low-income and disadvantaged communities to the Purpose of the legislation.
2. Community legal clinics must be recognized as the foundation for the provision of clinic law services.
3. Reinstate obligations to provide legal aid services across Ontario.
4. Define community legal clinics as:
“community legal clinic” means a community legal organization structured as an independent corporation without share capital:
(a) whose board of directors are members of the community or communities served, or who have a substantial association or interest in the community or communities served;
(b) that provides legal aid services for the community it serves on a basis other than fee for service; and,
(c) that determines the legal needs of the individuals and communities served by the community legal clinic.
Contact Christopher Tyrell, Clerk, Standing Committee on Justice Policy at [email protected] to provide your voice to this critical debate. Deadline is June 12th.
You can also request the right to appear before the Committee. Deadline is June 5th at 6 pm.
Ask a Lawyer- Tenant Rights
Join us as we talk about your tenant rights during COVID-19 with Katie Remington.
Please join our live stream today at 2pm to talk about your tenant rights during COVID-19!
The Queer Justice Project and HCLC join the Two Spirit and LGBTQIAPGNC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Gender Nonconforming) communities in celebrating Pride Month this June 2020.
Read our full post here: https://hamiltonjustice.ca/en/2020/06/03/celebrating-pride-month/
Note: The Queer Justice Project recognizes that language is important. In an effort to be inclusive, we use the language “Two Spirit and LGBTQIAPGNC
June is National Indigenous History Month. This month is a time for us to reflect upon the rich history and diversity of Indigenous peoples and commit to act against the systemic oppression that Indigenous people continue to face today.
Read more here: https://hamiltonjustice.ca/en/2020/06/03/celebrating-national-indigenous-history-month/
“ June is National Indigenous History Month - a time for all Canadians - Indigenous, non-Indigenous and newcomers - to reflect upon and learn the history,
Mutilingual resources and videos on COVID available through MCIS Language Solutions
Check it out 👇
mcislanguages.com/covid-19-respo…
It’s National Indigenous History Month. Red, Brown and #BlackLiveMatters. Solidarity!
Jingle dress dancers held a ceremony at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis yesterday, the place where George Floyd was killed by police last week.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5595483
Together We Rise- A program that aims for JUSTICE for the Black community of Hamilton. #BlackLivesMatter Meet Mouna , TWR coordinator
Terry Cooke hosts Dr. Ameil Joseph (Faculty of Social Work, McMaster University) and Mouna Bile (Black Justice Coordinator, Hamilton Legal Clinic) to talk ab...
On Thursday June 4th we will be hosting our second “ Ask a Lawyer” livestream on tenant rights with Katie Remington!
Please join us tomorrow at 2pm! Come prepared to ask any questions you may have. You can also send an anonymous question in advance here: https://forms.gle/pPCiNteSf6DewubG8
100 Main St E Suite 203
Hamilton, ON
L8N 3W4
Board of Directors Board members share the goals of the clinic in serving the diverse legal needs of low income Hamiltonians. The Board is responsible to the community for the services provided by the clinic. The Board is also responsible to Legal Aid Ontario for the use of funding dollars. Clinic Staff Our clinic is staffed by lawyers, community legal workers, support staff, community development workers and volunteers. The Executive Director is Hugh Tye.
| Monday | 08:30 - 15:30 |
| Tuesday | 08:30 - 15:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 - 12:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30 - 15:30 |
| Friday | 08:30 - 15:30 |
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Mouna Bilè, HCLC’s lead for Together We Rise, access to justice for the Black community
Ask a Lawyer with Sharon Crowe and David Cheng Join us as we talk about the Hamilton Legal Outreach Initiative! Feel free to comment along and send in questions!
Ask a Lawyer- Tenant Rights Join us as we talk about your tenant rights during COVID-19 with Katie Remington.
🎉Nous sommes très heureux de vous présenter notre nouveau site web! Qu'attendez-vous ? Visitez notre site : www.hamiltonjustice.ca
We are so excited to launch our new website 🎉 Wait are you waiting for? Visit us at: www.hamiltonjustice.ca
Missed our tenant rights during #COVIDー19 workshop last week with Hamilton ACORN and the Tools for Tenant Rights Project? Not to worry! He’s a snippet from the presentation describing what an eviction process looks like during #COVIDー19 👇
Important Announcement from our Executive Director, Hugh Tye about our service delivery
Eddy Lartry youth poet closing the evening today
Our panelists speak
#BHM2020.
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