Willowdale Community Legal Services

About Willowdale Community Legal Services

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Willowdale Community Legal Services is a community legal clinic in Toronto, funded by Legal Aid Ontario to give free legal help to income eligible residents. Its office sits at 245 Fairview Mall Drive, inside the Fairview Mall complex in the city's North York district. The clinic's catchment area runs east of Yonge Street, west of Victoria Park Avenue, south of Steeles Avenue and north of York Mills Road, taking in the Willowdale area and the blocks around it.

The clinic's lawyers and community legal workers handle housing and tenant disputes, Ontario Works and ODSP appeals, immigration matters, employment and employment insurance issues, debt and consumer problems, and federal and provincial benefit claims such as the Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security and Child Benefits. It doesn't take on family or criminal law files directly; family law clients are referred to Metro Toronto Family Law Services, criminal law clients are directed to Legal Aid Ontario, and survivors of domestic violence can be connected to emergency Legal Aid Ontario certificates. Services range from summary legal advice and document preparation through to representation at tribunals and court, plus public legal education workshops, and the clinic can arrange interpretation in Arabic, Chinese and Farsi alongside English.