BarTalk February 2003
Volume 15, Number 1

Victoria’s Law Centre student clinical program has reopened and will continue to offer legal aid services to low income clients, thanks to project funding from the Legal Services Society and support from other donors.

The future of the Law Centre was placed in doubt last spring as a result of provincial funding cuts to legal aid. However, UVic permitted the law school to keep the program afloat while alternative funding was sought. The Legal Services Society will give the Law Centre approximately $200,000 to deliver a family law pilot project for low-income, unrepresented people. The project runs until March 2004.

UVic law faculty’s clinical program has been offered to law students since 1977, and provides legal services to about 4,000 clients a year. Students earn credits and gain hands-on experience providing legal services to low-income persons not eligible for legal aid.

For details, visit www.thelawcentre.ca.

This article was published in the February 2003 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.