PBSC volunteers provide unrepresented civil litigants with legal information and support. While at the Law Help Centres, students are supervised by and assist duty counsel volunteer lawyers. This project enables PBSC volunteers to gain intensive exposure to the practice of law, including client interviewing and management, and hands-on experience in civil litigation. The project has also developed a data collection system, in order to measure the impact of our students at Law Help Ontario.

PBSC volunteers at Western University Law School assist unrepresented Small Claims litigants in the completion of court documents under the supervision of volunteer lawyer mentors. Students, under the supervision of lawyers, provide one-on-one form filling assistance, procedural information, general guidelines and other legal information related to the Small Claims Court Process.

PBSC’s multiple award-winning Family Law Project (FLP) assists litigants who are unable to afford the services of a lawyer or legal representative at family courts across the country. PBSC student volunteers help thousands of unrepresented litigants fill out forms, prepare documents for submission to the court, learn about court procedures and the family law system, and connect with additional legal resources in their area.

The purpose of this project is to assist low-income renters facing eviction proceedings. Upper-year law students represent clients, helping them to stay in their homes. This project enables students to take a client file from inception to hearing, learning valuable client management, interview, and advocacy skills along the way.

As part of this project, PBSC volunteers work in teams to represent unrepresented complainants before the Health Professions Appeals and Review Board (HPARB). The students meet with a client, prepare short written arguments for the Board, and appear before the Board at the hearing. They receive guidance from both a legal mentor and a physician mentor.

PBSC partners with the Toronto Tax Department of Dentons in response to the significant number of unrepresented appellants appearing before the Tax Court of Canada. The project enables law students, under the careful supervision of Dentons tax litigators, to gain practical experience representing individual, low-income taxpayers before the TCC.

The Wills Project is a longstanding PBSC project run in partnership between the PBSC chapters of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law Schools and Basman Smith LLP.

This projects is run with the assistance of the UNHCR. Students go in teams of two to four provincial detention centres to present to detainees once each month on the immigration and refugee law process in Canada.

Equality and Justice for Persons with Disabilities (Ottawa & the Champlain Region)