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Legal Health Check-Up, 2015

This tool incorporates clear language problem statements and feed from CLEO’s Your Legal Rights website into a comprehensive web-based legal and social services referral database. The tool is also available in French.

  • Authoring organization: Connecting Ottawa
  • Intended users: Community members/ clients, community workers
  • Areas screened: Aboriginal issues; abuse and family violence; consumer law; criminal law; education law; employment and work; environmental law; family law; health and disability; housing law; human rights; immigration and refugee law; legal system; social assistance and pensions; wills and estates

Legal Health Check-up Tool, 2014

The Legal Health Check-up Tool was designed as a core tool for a project involving four community legal clinics in southwestern Ontario (the Southwest Legal Health Project) to help intermediaries detect and untangle legal problems before the point of crisis.

  • Authoring organization: Halton Community Legal Services
  • Intended users: Community members/ clients (vulnerable Ontarians, in particular), community workers
  • Areas screened: Income levels; housing; education; employment; family, health and social supports

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Legal Health Checklist for Trusted Intermediaries and Access to Justice Partners, 2013

This tool, developed by a community legal clinic, is intended to alert community workers and intermediaries to common legal problems that their clients might be facing. It also helps promote awareness in the community of the services that the community legal clinic can help with.

  • Authoring organization: Community Advocacy & Legal Centre
  • Intended users: Community workers, community intermediaries
  • Areas screened: Income security; housing; human rights; employment; criminal injuries compensation

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Canada (including Ontario)

Equal Justice – Legal Health Checks, 2014 and 2015

This series of checklists aims to encourage people to recognize legal problems early, and to take action when they do identify them. For lawyers, these materials might be a way to start conversations with people about the law, how to get legal help and how to work effectively with a lawyer. The tools form part of a wider initiative on access to justice for the Canadian public.

  • Authoring organization: Canadian Bar Association
  • Intended users: General public; lawyers
  • Areas screened: Legal wellness; youth issues; money issues; property rights of common law spouses; separation; spousal support; family law mediation; child custody; buying a home; legal responsibilities of employers; wills

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  • See this link for background information about the project.

    • 2015

    • Breaking up: without court: canvasses mediation and arbitration options (PDF – 1 page)
    • Spousal support: flags issues to keep in mind about spousal support (PDF – 1 page)
    • Non-unionized employees: this checklist deals with common issues facing non-unionized employees (PDF – 1 page)
    • Common law property: provides some general information and questions to look out for when determining property rights as a common law spouse (PDF – 1 page)
    • Hiring for your small business: a checklist for small employers on their responsibilities to workers (PDF – 1 page)
    • Preparing a will: suggests issues to keep in mind when making decisions about one’s will (PDF – 1 page)

    2014

    • 5 steps to legal wellness: speaks to the reasons why smaller legal problems can snowball into much larger and more complex problems, particularly for already vulnerable people (PDF – 1 page)
    • On your own – youth: includes information to check when starting a new job, moving into a new place, signing a contract, dealing with a mobile phone provider, being in an intimate relationship or interacting with the police (PDF – 2 pages)
    • Avoid surprises: promotes the notion getting legal advice at an early stage can save money and aggravation later – examples include relationship issues, consumer issues, real estate issues, conflicts and dealing with government (PDF – 2 pages)
    • Breaking up: suggests ways to reduce costs when dealing with the breakup of an intimate relationship (PDF – 2 pages)
    • Breaking up: parenting: encourages separating couples to get legal advice early in order to minimize stress on themselves and their children (PDF – 2 pages)
    • Before you buy: alerts home buyers to questions they should be able to answer before they buy property (PDF – 2 pages)
    • Background information about the project

    The Annual Legal Health Check-up, 2013

    This series of checklists aims to encourage people to recognize legal problems early, and to take action when they do identify them. For lawyers, these materials might be a way to start conversations with people about the law, how to get legal help and how to work effectively with a lawyer. The tools form part of a wider initiative on access to justice for the Canadian public.

    • Authoring organization: LAWPRO
    • Intended users: private bar lawyers and their clients
    • Areas screened: Business law; employment law; family law; wills and estates law; immigration/international law; real property law; personal injury; criminal law; “other matters”

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