Knowing Your Rights

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects a broad range of rights and freedoms. This script discusses equality rights, which are guaranteed by section 15 of the Charter

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
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The Canadian Bar Association BC Branch (CBABC)

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees everyone certain legal rights. Some of these rights require every person accused of a crime to be treated in a just and fair manner. This script discusses these Charter rights

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
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The Canadian Bar Association BC Branch (CBABC)

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects a broad range of freedoms and rights. This script provides an overview of these rights and freedoms, what you can do if you think a law or government action violates your Charter rights, and the kinds of remedies courts give if Charter rights are violated

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
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The Canadian Bar Association BC Branch (CBABC)

Your interactive guide to the BC court system.

Knowing Your Rights
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Justice Education Society

Online listing from sources across Canada. The document is sorted by issue and provides brief descriptions, source identification and online links.

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
fact sheet
B.C. Human Rights Coalition

Provides services to British Columbians as they relate to pursuing and understanding their legal rights under the BC Human Rights Code. Client services included initial information and advice respecting human rights issues, assistance in pursuing a complaint under the BC Human Rights Code and representation of complaintes before the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
Telephone Help Line
B.C. Human Rights Coalition

Provides useful information on identifying human rights discrimination and provides a walk through the formal system of filing a human rights complaint.

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse
handbook
B.C. Human Rights Coalition

The JusticeBC website is brought to you in partnership by the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Ministry of Children and Family Development. Within these ministries various branches are involved in providing the JusticeBC website to the public. All of these branches and their many service delivery partners support the criminal justice system in B.C. and are responsible for delivering programs and services to communities throughout the province. JusticeBC brings into one portal more than 300 pages of information about the criminal justice system, as well as links to other resources and services.

Knowing Your Rights, Victims of Abuse, Crime, Legal Services
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BC Ministry of the Attorney General, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, and Ministry of Children and Family Development

Information for youth on legal rights and responsibilities.

Knowing Your Rights
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Justice Education Society

Vancouver Community College is pleased to provide you with this glossary of 5000 Canadian legal and court-related terms in English Plain Language, and their equivalents in six other languages (Chinese, Farsi, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese).

Divorce and Separation, Knowing Your Rights, Understanding Abuse & Family Violence, Preventing Abuse, Safety Issues, Seniors, Financial Issues, Persons with a Disability, Victims of Abuse, Immigration Issues, In a Relationship, Crime, Legal Services, Children's Rights, Financial, Your Safety, Family Law
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