Access Pro Bono, the organization created by the merger of Pro Bono Law British Columbia and the Access Justice Society, has announced a new Paralegal Program under which paralegals supervised by a lawyer will give low-income Supreme Court litigants help drafting court documents. The program, sadly, is only for non-family law civil matters; less extensive help for family law cases can still be had from the self-help centre.
This is how the new service works:
- Each paralegal program will engage the volunteer services of two to four paralegals and one supervising lawyer
- The Law Courts Center will recruit, monitor and train the volunteer paralegals as needed and Access Pro Bono will recruit supervising lawyers as needed
- The supervising lawyer will directly supervise each client file at the Vancouver Justice Access Centre
- The supervising lawyer will be responsible for the legal advice and assistance provided by the paralegals
- Volunteer paralegals will each see a maximum of two clients per clinic and the program will serve a maximum of eight clients per day
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