Legal System

legal system: Enter the community legal clinics, according to The Star. But rumours have been swirling for weeks that our community legal clinics are about to be consolidated into three big super-clinics. The underlying fear of such a consolidation is that, if access to the law is hard now, it will be much harder if we have far to travel to find it and The bedrock of the legal system is access to justice, but some of us live on shaky ground. I mean the poor, the poorly-educated, and those newcomers who may not grasp the nuances of our language or our laws; they are many, they have no power, they are easy to abuse, and lawyers are not cheap. There are more than a dozen general-service clinics scattered across the GTA. The legal staff in these shops do the hard work of fighting for those who are gouged by landlords or ignored by callous civil servants, and who have no money, and nowhere else to turn. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.