Community Legal Education Ontario

CLEO is a specialized community legal clinic that produces clear language material for people with low incomes. Main topics include social assistance, landlord and tenant law, refugee and immigration law, workers' compensation, women's issues, family law, employment insurance and human rights. Some of their booklets and pamphlets can be read on line, if your computer can use Acrobat Reader. For example, to read CLEO's booklet on eviction, click Cleo, Publications, Publications On-line, or click here to try it:

http://www.cleo.on.ca/english/pub/onpub/subject/landlord.htm

There are many links to helpful local agencies and government offices on CLEO's website. Please click on CLEO http://www.cleo.on.ca/ to find them.

Legal Aid Ontario
If you need Legal Aid's assistance to get a lawyer, but your problem is not on
the list of work done at our clinic, please try Legal Aid Ontario;

http://www.legalaid.on.ca/

You will find instructions on the LAO webpage about how to apply for legal assistance, and how to find the office nearest you.

Law Society of Upper Canada, Lawyer Referral Service
The Law Society is the body that governs all lawyers in Ontario. The LSUC has a service to help people find a lawyer skilled in the correct area of law, the Lawyer Referral Service.

http://www.lsuc.on.ca/public/referral_en.jsp

A phone call to LRS , 1-900-565-4577, will cost you $6.00, for which you will get the name and phone number of a lawyer who will give you a 30 minute consultation for free.

This page was last updated on July 2007