Practice resources

The following materials and publications are available to help our tariff lawyers with their legal aid work.

Legal Aid BC resources

General

• Legal Aid BC policies
• What You Need to Know About Legal Aid Work manual
• Working with Your Legal Aid Lawyer fact sheet
• Lawyer news Legal Aid Brief (LAB) newsletter
• LAB newsletter archive

Mentoring counsel

• Mentoring counsel

Aboriginal

• Aboriginal Legal Aid in BC website
• Gladue reports
• Preparing an Aboriginal Rights Case — An Overview for Defence Counsel (PDF)
• What Are First Nations/Indigenous Courts? fact sheet

Family

• Family Law in BC website
• Family Services Retainer Agreement (PDF)

Family Duty Counsel

• Family Duty Counsel Billing Tips and Expectations (PDF)
• Family Duty Counsel brochure (PDF)

Other resources

• BC First Nations Justice Council
• Continuing legal education
• Immigration Consequences at Sentencing
• LAO LAW — The Bottom Line (a weekly summary of new cases in refugee and immigration law)
• Legal research memoranda
• TLABC Criminal Defence List Server
• TLABC Family Law List Server