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Twenty-Five Years Of Dynamic Tension: The Parkdale Community Legal Services Experience, Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Twenty-Five Years Of Dynamic Tension: The Parkdale Community Legal Services Experience, Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Parkdale Community Legal Services has been the site of initiatives, challenges, and historic accomplishments in the areas of community-based poverty law, community organizing and law reform, and clinical legal education. In this article, the author takes the occasion of the clinic's twenty-fifth anniversary to consider some of the events and issues that shaped Parkdale's history. Drawing on a range of sources, including evaluations and reports, student writing, and scholarly publications, the author examines the issues and debates that PCLS has sparked at Osgoode Hall Law School, and some of the ground it has broken more generally in its work. The …
The Dream Is Still Alive: Twenty-Five Years Of Parkdale Community Legal Services And The Osgoode Hall Law School Intensive Program In Poverty Law, Frederick H. Zemans
The Dream Is Still Alive: Twenty-Five Years Of Parkdale Community Legal Services And The Osgoode Hall Law School Intensive Program In Poverty Law, Frederick H. Zemans
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Over twenty-five years have passed since Parkdale Community Legal Services opened its doors in Toronto, changing the face of poverty law and clinical legal education in Ontario. This article details the formative years of the Parkdale clinic and its ongoing partnership with Osgoode Hall Law School. Despite initial opposition from the legal profession the clinic has survived, evolving into an innovative educational tool and delivery model of legal services. The clinic has become an essential component of the mixed Ontario legal aid system and a pattern for other clinics and clinical education programs in Canada. This article documents the considerations …