Legal Centre News Volume 59 – Fall 2023 Newsletter
We are pleased to announce the release of the digital edition of our bi-annual newsletter for Fall 2023, Legal Centre News Volume 59!
This volume of the Peterborough Community Legal Centre newsletter features articles on a few of the many overlapping issues of inequality facing people in our community today, including:
- PCLC Supports the Local Trans Community with Trans ID Clinic
- Evictions for Landlord’s Own Use
- Evicted in Bad Faith
- MyBenefits – Good or Bad
- Seeking Protection Orders for Intimate Partner Violence in Ontario
- There is No Tort of Harassment – at least in Ontario
- Precedent Setting Case Finds O.P.P Discriminated Against Victim Reporting Sexual Assault – Leach vs. Ontario (Solicitor-General)
- Increase in Defamation Cases Against Survivors of Abuse
- Tips for Lawyers and Social Agencies: How to Identify and Help Clients Struggling with Intimate Partner Violence
- Claim Period Open for Canadian OxyContin Class Action
All images in this newsletter are from Canva and some articles include links to sources. These links are accessible on the digital copy of the newsletter and listed below.
Evicted in Bad Faith
- https://www.ptbo-clc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Legal-Centre-News-Volume-55-Spring-2021.pdf
- https://www.acto.ca/documents/llmovingin/
- https://www.cleo.on.ca/en/publications/does-your-landlord-or-a-buyer-want-to-move-in
- https://stepstojustice.ca/wp-content/uploads/Checklist-N12-Landlord-Aug2021.pdf
- https://stepstojustice.ca/wp-content/uploads/Checklist-N12-Purchaser.pdf
MyBenefits – Good or Bad?
Seeking Protection Orders for Intimate Partner Violence in Ontario: What are the Options?
- https://stepstojustice.ca/legal-topic/abuse-and-family-violence/restraining-orders-and-peace-bonds/
- https://www.ontario.ca/page/victimwitness-assistance-program
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/news/legal-clinics-get-funding-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-assault-and-intimate-partner-violence/
- https://stepstojustice.ca/questions/abuse-and-family-violence/how-do-i-ask-restraining-order-my-family-law-application/
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2021001/article/00011-eng.htm
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/domestic-violence-family-court-1.6436368#:~:text=The%20problem%2C%20according%20to%20survivors%20and%20experts%20interviewed,the%20child%20to%20have%20contact%20with%20both%20parents
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/services/domestic-abuse/
- https://stepstojustice.ca/steps/abuse-and-family-violence/2-apply-peace-bond/
- https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/victims-victimes/factsheets-fiches/peace-paix.html
- https://canlaw.com/criminal/peace-bond.html
- https://owjn.org/2021/05/15/protection-orders-part-3-a-basic-guide-to-peace-bonds/
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/services/domestic-abuse/#:~:text=People%20who%20are%20experiencing%20domestic%20violence%20are%20eligible,hours%20of%20free%20legal%20advice%20from%20a%20lawyer
- https://sheltersafe.ca/ontario/
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/news/legal-clinics-get-funding-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-assault-and-intimate-partner-violence/
Precedent Setting Case Finds O.P.P Discriminated Against Victim Reporting Sexual Assault – Leach vs. Ontario (Solicitor-General)
- Leach v. Ontario (Solicitor General), 2023 HRTO 1339 (CanLII), https://canlii.ca/t/k022l, retrieved on 2023-09-13.
- Victims’ Bill of Rights, 1995, SO 1995, c 6, https://canlii.ca/t/55gqc, retrieved on 2023-09-13
Tips for Lawyers and Social Agencies: How to Identify and Help Clients Struggling with Intimate Partner Violence
- Minister of Justice and Attorney General, & Justice Canada, Help toolkit: Identifying and responding to family violence for family law legal advisers (2021). Ottawa. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/help-aide/overview-apercu.html “HELP Toolkit”
- Subsection 2(1) of the Divorce Act R.S.C., 1985, c. 3 (2nd Supp.):
family violence means any conduct, whether or not the conduct constitutes a criminal offence, by a family member towards another family member, that is violent or threatening or that constitutes a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour or that causes that other family member to fear for their own safety or for that of another person — and in the case of a child, the direct or indirect exposure to such conduct — and includes
(a) physical abuse, including forced confinement but excluding the use of reasonable force to protect themselves or another person;
(b) sexual abuse;
(c) threats to kill or cause bodily harm to any person;
(d) harassment, including stalking;
(e) the failure to provide the necessaries of life;
(f) psychological abuse;
(g) financial abuse;
(h) threats to kill or harm an animal or damage property; and
(i) the killing or harming of an animal or the damaging of property; (violence familiale)
- https://sheltersafe.ca/ontario/
- https://www.awhl.org/contact-us/
- https://stepstojustice.ca/steps/abuse-and-family-violence/1-learn-about-restraining-orders/
- https://www.ontario.ca/page/family-court-support-workers
- https://www.ontario.ca/page/victimwitness-assistance-program
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/services/domestic-abuse/
- https://www.legalaid.on.ca/news/legal-clinics-get-funding-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-assault-and-intimate-partner-violence/
Claim Period Open for Canadian OxyContin Class Action