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The West Lodge Files: Joining Clinic And Community To Overcome Tenants' Subordination, Mary Truemner, Bart Poesiat
The West Lodge Files: Joining Clinic And Community To Overcome Tenants' Subordination, Mary Truemner, Bart Poesiat
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Organizing with members of the community is an essential part of realizing change through legal advocacy. This article explores how organizing with tenants' associations in the Parkdale community created a foundation for success in the courtroom in what are perhaps Parkdale Community Legal Services' most famous files-The West Lodge Files. The article traces the long history of legal and other battles surrounding the West Lodge towers, beginning with a groundbreaking Supreme Court of Canada case for tenants' rights in the 1970's and ending with the tenants' 1997 attempt and courtroom battle to buy the buildings and turn them into a …
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 Spousal Assault Policy: A Critical Analysis, Leah Rachin
The Spousal Assault Policy: A Critical Analysis, Leah Rachin
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article examines the complex relationship between PCLS's spousal assault policy and the clinic's mandate to practice poverty law. The author addresses the conflict which arises from the clinic's attempt to reconcile two goals-access to justice for all members of Parkdale's poor community and advocacy in the area of violence against women. The article also examines whether poverty can serve as a catalyst for violent behaviour or whether such a hypothesis is based on classist myths and assumptions. Ultimately, the author concludes that if battering can be linked to poverty, then PCLS (as a poverty law clinic) has an obligation …
Parkdale Community Legal Services: An Investment In Legal Education, Marilyn L. Pilkington
Parkdale Community Legal Services: An Investment In Legal Education, Marilyn L. Pilkington
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Parkdale Community Legal Services: A Dream That Died, Doug Ewart
Parkdale Community Legal Services: A Dream That Died, Doug Ewart
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away: The Parkdale Dream Revisited, Doug Ewart
Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away: The Parkdale Dream Revisited, Doug Ewart
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Ellis Archives-1972 To 1981: An Early View From The Parkdale Trenches, S. Ronald Ellis
The Ellis Archives-1972 To 1981: An Early View From The Parkdale Trenches, S. Ronald Ellis
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The author was intimately involved with PCLS from 1972 to 1981. Significant extracts from a recently uncovered, personal horde of archival materials--framed by the author's description and explication of the materials' original context--provide old perspectives on a wide range of surprisingly current issues--perspectives which the author believes readers will find still useful. The subject matter includes: the private bar's role in the ultimate success of PCLS and the clinic system; legal aid services; the bar's role in the legal aid system; the need for customized legal services in low-income communities; the role and operation of community based legal clinics; a …
The Demystification Of Legal Discourse: Reconceiving The Role Of The Poverty Lawyer As Agent Of The Poor, Cherie Robertson
The Demystification Of Legal Discourse: Reconceiving The Role Of The Poverty Lawyer As Agent Of The Poor, Cherie Robertson
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
By employing traditional methods of legal representation when acting on behalf of those living in poverty, lawyers act to perpetuate the disempowerment of poor people.. While the systemic barriers confronting the poor must be addressed, so too must the power of the poor to help themselves through organization and resistance. The task of the poverty lawyer committed to facilitating the agency of the poor is made difficult by the exclusivity and formalism of legal discourse, the constraints of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and by traditional understandings of the appropriate role of lawyers. However, a reconceptualization of the role of …
Reflections On 22.2 Years As Receptionist At Parkdale Community Legal Services, Dorothy Leatch
Reflections On 22.2 Years As Receptionist At Parkdale Community Legal Services, Dorothy Leatch
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Landlord-Tenant Division, Dan Macdonald
The Landlord-Tenant Division, Dan Macdonald
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Pcls Clinic Manual 6.18-Policy On Landlords, S. R. Ellis
Pcls Clinic Manual 6.18-Policy On Landlords, S. R. Ellis
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Opinion...Parkdale: I Didn't See It That Way, Jeffery Wilson
Opinion...Parkdale: I Didn't See It That Way, Jeffery Wilson
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Pajelle Investments Ltd. V. Herbold: On The Importance Of Having A Convenient Enemy, Brian Bucknall
Pajelle Investments Ltd. V. Herbold: On The Importance Of Having A Convenient Enemy, Brian Bucknall
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Foreword, Mitchell Flagg
Parkdale: A Day In The Life, Richard Steinecke
Parkdale: A Day In The Life, Richard Steinecke
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Letter To The Editor: The Parkdale Citizen, S. R. Ellis
Letter To The Editor: The Parkdale Citizen, S. R. Ellis
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day: Community Organizing With Psychiatric Survivors, Lilith Finkler
Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day: Community Organizing With Psychiatric Survivors, Lilith Finkler
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Transformative Potential Of Clinical Legal Education, Lucie E. White
The Transformative Potential Of Clinical Legal Education, Lucie E. White
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Safe At Home: Protecting Female Tenants From Violence, Lori A. Pope
Safe At Home: Protecting Female Tenants From Violence, Lori A. Pope
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article deals with the tension for legal aid clinics between a policy of not representing landlords and a policy of acting for abused women rather than their alleged abusers. Many women face violence where they live, which can jeopardize their tenancies. To combat the resulting legal problems effectively, clinics may need to work indirectly or even directly for landlords. Clinics ought also to consider lobbying for changes to legislation to allow tenants to take action directly against other tenants who threaten their safety. Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), which led the way for other clinics in their adoption of …
Parkdale: Law In The Filthy Lane No More?, Hart Schwartz, Bob Cooper
Parkdale: Law In The Filthy Lane No More?, Hart Schwartz, Bob Cooper
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Clinics In A Cold Climate: Community Law Centres In England And Wales, Roger Smith
Clinics In A Cold Climate: Community Law Centres In England And Wales, Roger Smith
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Legal aid clinics in England and Wales, known as law centres, have struggled since they were set up in the early 1970s. They overcame the initial protests of the private profession, which saw the centres as competition, and established an important presence in social welfare law during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, the government began implementing financial cuts to the system. Over the next decade, the increased cuts led to a race towards "contract culture" and the introduction of "franchising" within the legal aid system. The implications of fiscal restraint on the efficiency and the quality of the service …
Remarks Delivered Following The Chief Justice, Judith Penfold, Ruth I. Wahl, Paul D. Copeland, E. Susan Elliott, Larry Taman, Gerald Le Dain, Penny Cader
Remarks Delivered Following The Chief Justice, Judith Penfold, Ruth I. Wahl, Paul D. Copeland, E. Susan Elliott, Larry Taman, Gerald Le Dain, Penny Cader
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
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 …
Legal Education: Nemesis Or Ally Of Social Movements?, Janet E. Mosher
Legal Education: Nemesis Or Ally Of Social Movements?, Janet E. Mosher
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
There is much in legal education which contributes to lawyering practices that are fundamentally at odds with the formation of social movements. These practices include the "individualization" of client problems; the reshaping of the realities of clients' lives into legal categories or boxes; the commitment to instrumentalism (that is, to securing a favourable legal result); and lawyer domination and control and the correlates of client silence and passivity. The genesis for these features of dominant lawyering practices can be traced, at least in part, to legal education. More specifically, legal education's emphasis upon doctrinal analysis, its tendency to trade upon …
Parkdale Community Legal Services: Community Law Office, Or Law Office In A Community?, Doug Ewart
Parkdale Community Legal Services: Community Law Office, Or Law Office In A Community?, Doug Ewart
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Celebrating A Quarter Century Of Community Legal Clinics In Ontario, R. Roy Mcmurtry
Celebrating A Quarter Century Of Community Legal Clinics In Ontario, R. Roy Mcmurtry
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Poverty Law And Community Legal Clinics: A View From Parkdale Community Legal Services
Poverty Law And Community Legal Clinics: A View From Parkdale Community Legal Services
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Disabling Tenants' Rights, Elinor Mahoney
Disabling Tenants' Rights, Elinor Mahoney
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Personal Note, Vicki Smith
The Cases Of Ward And Chan, Ron Shacter
The Cases Of Ward And Chan, Ron Shacter
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Parkdale Community Legal Services has had an Immigration and Refugee division since 1989. The immigration division is one of the busiest divisions. The group represents refugee claimants, with an overall priority of women fleeing abuse in their country of nationality. The group also advocates for clients in family reunification and landing matters and represents clients in their applications for landing on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Law reform work includes continued work with the Toronto Coalition Against Racism and the Canadian Council for Refugees to build responses to the Head Tax, Safe Third Country Agreement, and the new identification and delayed …